Also, this. I'm pretty much at this point in my patience right now, and I am up north. This Harper lad, ah, lawdy... He has done us soo much damage... Let's get a move on, people.

NSA indeed. I'm sure they still exist, but what form they may take nowadays is anyone's guess.

Hi, Jamie,

Cheers to you as well! :-)

True story. Got invited to do some high steel work on a 400' microwave tower after doing some work over the Saint Lawrence River.

I have not, although I've worked with many Vietnamese people, as was the case with a former NV public school teacher who got conscripted by the North Vietnamese Army. It was either revoke his schoolteacher-like ways and come to the aid of The Motherland, apparently, or be shot, so unsurprisingly, he volunteered for…

I think that psychologically it was not so much a weapon against the NV as it was a reaction by young soldiers to the brutality of it all, and a way to fend off the feeling of helplessness they felt every time an unexpected attack took them; in other words, just a basic psychological need for a final "Fuck You" to the…

Do you have a death card I could look at? Because that would be cool.

While not a death card per se (may as well have been in reality), I always liked this old chestnut:

Sleep well, brother. :-)

Indeed. We just celebrated His birthday a few days ago; how soon people forget.

*bows, and pleased to meetcha :-)*

"I don't know if the fact that your family is full of war mongers is something to be proud of."

Kudos to you and yours, good sir. Also, here's a link to that album (very nice, btw) for those interested:

"Well if that's their culture, then I feel uncomfortable telling them what they should or should not be doing."

Thank you for this, Lauren. That was absolutely delicious, and I'm going to share it with as many friends as possible (rl friends, I mean, not Fæcebook-type folk). You've given us a fine New Year's gift with this, and may the new year be happy and generous for you and yours.

I'm bumping you both, but y'all need to keep your pets indoors. Fix them if you must, but if you let them roam, then they shall surely die.

Or this: