I can’t figure out for the life of me why you might not have done well in college. You are clearly able to express well-grounded and original thought via the written word…

No, but I am sad to say that Monsanto’s vicious and well-funded litigation team and the fact that many former and future Monsanto employees are stuffing EPA and FDA positions makes it very real indeed.

From what little I do know, the 5.56 lethality thing is a holdover from some of the ’Nam era rounds that would occasionally fragment coming out of the weapon, causing a more damaging wound pattern.

There is also a meme floating around that it “follows bone”. No idea if that’s true or not.

I am speechless. I never thought of that.

Given recent reports that it’s acutally more environmentally friendly to have you groceries delivered, this may be just the thing.

I shall never leave my house again!
(I am already burning my pants!)

I would use them if I could by food or hardware with them.

Apparently, the bombs were essentially pressure cookers and would therefore classify as IEDs.

In completely unrelated news, this site has been declared a terrorist asset, and anyone who purchased bomb-making materials from it is now a terrorist and can expect a drone strike from Mr. Obama very soon.

Please consider that the centralized power structure set up by the PSPN for “Good Things” is the same tool needed for a “Bad Person” (insert Republican/Neo-Con/Corporate/Bush-ite, etc) to have complete power.

While I can reluctantly live through the intrusive but, hopefully, well meaning PSPN, I don’t want them leaving the tools of abolute power around for a tyrant. Especially if the PSPN decide they need to disarm me for my own good.

Add in the Progressive, Statist Power Nannies and we have complete agreement. All three groups have plenty of blame all around.

How? They are Politicians, Bankers, and Lawyers (PBL). As such, they are above the law.

They’ll just wave “National Security” in our noses and laugh. It doesn’t even have to make sense; they have the Media to spoon it to us.

Then the mega-corporations will give them unlimited money to sway the ignorant majority of straight ticket voters locked in a Republican vs. Democrat “Holy War”. This will keep them in power to steadily erode any pretense of freedom we have.

Why don’t they just make bombs illegal?

So I’m old now. The “big four-oh”. Sort of feels like Friday.

I started to write something all introspective and “judgy” about where I am in my life, and I realized how mind-crushingly cliché that is. “Cliché” I can handle; “mind-crushing,” not so much.

Let me instead mention some gifts I’ve unexpectedly gotten over the years, usually not on my birthday, that have helped me to get to today and will hopefully carry me on for at least another forty years.