Off again tonight

There's an Iron Chef episode at 9 my time I simply must vidcap. Yep. Hey, even I get a weekend off every once in a while. ;)

There are just no words

(snagged from mcsnee)

Accidental Strafing Divides N.J. Region

LITTLE EGG HARBOR, N.J. - The strafing of a school by a National Guard F-16 fighter jet has divided residents of the fast-growing region around the Warren Grove Gunnery Range. Some fear for their safety, while others consider it profoundly unpatriotic to question the military during a time of war. (emphasis mine)

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They strafed a GRADE SCHOOL, you simple minded freaks! That's not a cause for just questioning, it's a cause for finding the pilot responsible and flogging him to death with his own lower intestine, never mind the dumb sons of bitches in the tower or where the hell ever who should have warned this addled bastard "Hey, this is a GRADE SCHOOL AHEAD, not fucking Fallujah!"

But try this on for size, folks:

But Terry Hickman, a 10-year Army special forces veteran, defended the range and the pilots who train there.

"Let 'em alone; they're over there putting their lives on the line for us," Hickman said as he prepared to hunt deer in Bass River, near the edge of the range. "That guy (the pilot) probably feels so bad about this. He's probably going to get sent overseas and he might not even come back. As long as no one got hurt, this whole thing should just be forgotten."

FORGOTTEN?

Robert Heinlein got it wrong. These aren't The Crazy Years, oh no. These are The Utterly Yammering Mad Years.

(The story in question is here.)