The most recent 20 comments posted to Making Light by Ken Houghton:

What I found most scary about Derbyshire's comment is his own admission that he's a LOUSY shot even though he practices regularly.

I haven't fired a gun in several years, in part because I know I'm not willing to keep in practice. (On the whole, I'd rather be biking. Or reading. Or whatever.)

But I got better with practice. Derbyshire, by his own admission, does not.

Which means that if he were the CCW person in Jamie Bishop's classroom, the damage would have been even more severe, with more bystanders endangered.

Re: WTC7. We all saw Fight the Future too.

Dr. Schoen is a new writer??

Sh*t.

That's a great short bio, missing only his appreciation for good Scotch.

He did good works.

Hope Alex is holding up.

I'm waiting to be told that Prince Planet was actually an evil invader from afar, while Kimba really represents an application of the Bush Doctrine.

(Yes, I spent my preschool days watching Japanimation. Channel 17 in Philadelphia. How could you tell?)

Glad to see the Sadly, No! link posted above. (Do Brad. Seb, and Gavin have to take some of the r/e/s/p/o/n/s/i/b/i/l/i/t/y/ blame for elevating his profile? Have mercy on their souls.)

My most recent memory of Dafydd (still difficult not to type Daffyd, which would insult a Warner property) is that he was pontificating on the U.S. military. I believe it ended with Jerry Pournelle "conceding" something to the effect of "Well, glad to be informed you know more about our military and its technology than I do."

By the way, I think you summed it up with this:

"They think he knows what he’s talking about. He subs for Michelle Malkin."

I suspect he is as sharp and journalistically competent as Ms. M.

(As a final note, I went to a dinner with Dafydd, Tom Dupree, and several others a ways back [when Tom was still editing sf at Bantam]. After the dinner, Tom commented, more of less, than Dafydd "doesn't listen." This appears to be a skill that will serve him well.)

Uh, Teresa, just to be certain: are you certain he's gone? (I mean no just further around the bend; fully into RWPtry and out of skiffy.)

Here in Joisey, we had a choice between a vote for torture and a vote for a man who voted for torture.

Did the right thing, though.

Chertoff knows where too many bodies are buried, but Michael Brown was the first ever Undersecretary of Emergency PREPAREDNESS and Response.

As I've griped elsewhere, when your first major "rescue" team arrives showing not food and water, but how well-armed it is, "what we have here is a failure to communicate."

John M. Barry noted that Louisiana 1927 led to Herbert Hoover getting the Republican nomination. It looks as if Haley Barbour is ready for his close-up; Fox is pounding the "lawlessness" aspect and Barbour is emphasizing the need to restore order (which 2005-speak for 1927's use of the National Guard to keep the [black] people who built sandbags at the levees in the path of the flood).

Chapter 7 is Adam-Troy Castro's. (I tried putting in a link to his website, but it's blocked by our corporate firewall, so I can't confirm that it works.)

Teresa: I read the book on vacation, and certainly thought that it sucked the life out of my body at least one afternoon (of the three it took).

Paul Clarke: Moby-Dick is a horrible novel: infodumps all over the place, more about whales than any reader of fiction could ever want to know, etc.

The story, though, survives all of those issues.

The only Xmas songs I can listen to--excepting those done at St.John's or by some Cambridge Choir (or, in the case of "Three Ships," Roger McGuinn) are "Christmas in Hollis" and "Christmas Wrapping." (Basic assumption that such efforts--word used advisedly--as "Do They Know It's Xmas" and "Happy Xmas (War is Over)"--are never going to be canonical, even for the UUs. Which unfortunately also probably includes Melissa Etheridge's "Christmas in America.")

Of course, I learned five Xmas songs, including "I Want a Hippopotamus," from a 7-inch Three Stooges EP, so meing willing to defend "Jingle Bell Rock" would be easy--it would just come from an indefensible position.

However, if we're allowing limited-edition releases, I may play "North Pole Fats" for the next person who expresses an appreciation of The Residents and wishes they would do a Xmas album.

Nope. "BlogShares is a fantasy stock market for weblogs. Players get to invest a fictional $500, and blogs are valued by inbound links."

I pinging "Crooked Timber" with the Obsidian Wings" URL and the system accepted it. Don't know if that means anything, since there is a subsequent vetting process.

Fidelio is correct; it was James. Howard Baker (R-TN) is a relic from the days when My Ancestral Party believed in integrity, small government, and balancing the budget.

Follow-up, just to throw a spanner into the works:

7. If you have a jar of change, do you count it carefully and put it into rolls, or do you take it to one of those supermarket places that charges you 7.527% and gives you a printout at the end that tells you how much money you gave it?

The answer to "6" is that we shouldn't, and they don't. Sacrifice Ashcroft (who is going away anyway) in late July (taking the thunder from the DNC in Boston), deliver Osama in October, and "announce" the open-secret departures of Rice, Powell, and/or Rumsfeld as needed in the runup.

Otherwise, keep pounding on the "sacraments" issue, and if that stops working, point to the study that shows Kerry to be the BEST Congressman in voting "Catholic beliefs."

If all else fails, you can depend on Diebold. But recommending staying the course and showing some activity (while complaining that your opponents "just won't be satisfied") should make that unnecessary.

Heard that the policy has been reversed as of today, but couldn't find proof on the DOJ site.

Did find this, though:

http://www.lifeandliberty.gov/subs/u_myths.htm

Offered, as perhaps an example of local variation:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/EDUCATION/02/25/swimsuit.magazine.ap/index.html

Uh, can someone please check my math:

The invasion of Iraq began in March or April of 2003.

It is now almost March of 2004.

2004-2003 = 1, not 2, doesn't it?

ken

Oooh. Yep. We have grounds...

Teresa, I admit itching to get into this one, but this probably isn't the place.

Yet.

Should we play nice until your "more to come on this shortly" draws this discussion there, or will that one be more of a place to play?

Deferring to the moderator (for once)...

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