Thursday

Tomorrow I take Mickey to the big vet clinic for his ultrasound. He's to have no food after midnight, which I would guess means they're going to put him under?

Poor little guy. He's trying to sleep now, but I think I have Peter Murphy playing too loudly. Bad Dogmom me.

Thinking about things. After the TWA 800 disaster, one of the local shock jock radio stations received lots of calls from the usual gang of chest-thumping pencil-dicks, describing how they would have freed themselves from their seats after the explosion, found whatever life rafts or other flotation devices they could, and survived the crash into the ocean. No, the situation can't really compare with what happened at VT. Simple physics would've removed all judgment from the TWA 800 equation. The reality of what happens to a human body that is held immobile in a metal tube while shockwaves rocket through soft tissue.

Now others of that same ilk are going on about what they perceive as the cowardly inaction of the men of VT. God, are we ever going to get past this wanking bluster bullshit? Are the realists going to retake the hill anytime soon?

Really good comment by Old Jarhead, #84 in today's makinglight thread. The rest of the post is quite good, as well.

I took a private investigations course in 1996. The instructor told us that he had carried a licensed firearm for years, and had only taken it out of his holster once. He didn't fire it at that time. I think he and Old Jarhead would have gotten along.

Thursday

Tomorrow I take Mickey to the big vet clinic for his ultrasound. He's to have no food after midnight, which I would guess means they're going to put him under?

Poor little guy. He's trying to sleep now, but I think I have Peter Murphy playing too loudly. Bad Dogmom me.

Thinking about things. After the TWA 800 disaster, one of the local shock jock radio stations received lots of calls from the usual gang of chest-thumping pencil-dicks, describing how they would have freed themselves from their seats after the explosion, found whatever life rafts or other flotation devices they could, and survived the crash into the ocean. No, the situation can't really compare with what happened at VT. Simple physics would've removed all judgment from the TWA 800 equation. The reality of what happens to a human body that is held immobile in a metal tube while shockwaves rocket through soft tissue.

Now others of that same ilk are going on about what they perceive as the cowardly inaction of the men of VT. God, are we ever going to get past this wanking bluster bullshit? Are the realists going to retake the hill anytime soon?

Really good comment by Old Jarhead, #84 in today's makinglight thread. The rest of the post is quite good, as well.

I took a private investigations course in 1996. The instructor told us that he had carried a licensed firearm for years, and had only taken it out of his holster once. He didn't fire it at that time. I think he and Old Jarhead would have gotten along.