Hand Grenadeaphilic Missives

I love throwing hand grenades- there is nothing, really nothing quite like it in the world. The power to destroy right there in the palm of your hand. To destroy life and property- both your own and the enemy. Nothing in the world can make you focus quite like you do at the point you first pull the safety ring- literally, you don't think of anything else- you can't. One wrong move and you're a goner and you know it. You can theoretically flex the safety lever enough to fire the fuse and that 5-7 second countdown before it goes boom starts. A bad aim or your foot slips when you chunk it and it hits something and rolls back and stops between you legs (think of a boomerang- that blows your testicles off). If you don't cook it off for a couple of seconds the odds increase exponentially one of the bad guys will throw it back at you and this happens all the time and has since the things were invented. Then it will hurt you and break your stuff- they have no conscience. Cook it off too long and you become a cautionary tale- the subject of safety briefings at grenade ranges all across the fruited plain and beyond. Don't let this happen to you the instructor says while everybody in the class rolls their eyes and mouths Gooberhead! (or worse) to their buddy sitting next to them.

Mythbusters also digs things that go boom.

Grenade launchers can be a thing of beauty.

More here.

Who can forget The Holy Grenade?

Monday's Missives

From Russia with love- a very cool daily driving, money making rig that looks more than capable to take on the world in the apocalypse

• "I can't believe that the average Israeli doesn't see merit in a solution that creates a separate state for the Palestinians. The settler movement, driven as it is by religious beliefs not subject to rational political discussion, won't see things that way, but most Israelis aren't settlers. Iran can say silly things about Israel because Israel has not made peace with people who have lived on that land for 2000 years. Make peace, and Ahmedinijad will have a harder time finding a receptive audience for his statements. John Carrol"






• "John Carroll, So if I throw a grenade in your front yard then you are going to automatically give me your house? " both from msnbc message board related to article on Israeli Home Front preparedness drill.






• I slept all day after a particularly tiring night at work. My oldest and his cousins were here in the house all day.






• It looks like a hand grenade went off in the house.






• Some people from my high school want to get together informally for dinner one night.






• I almost led that sentence off with some kids from my high school...






• Good grief.






• Being good looking makes peoples lives so much easier- the doors it opens. When Zac is late for breakfast at his daycare the teacher doesn't sit him down in front of some cold cereal and a juice box (or tell us it's too late and leave it at that)- she fusses over him and cooks him something if something wasn't already saved for him.






• At the pharmacy earlier the lady who has worked behind the counter there for 30-40 years gave him a package of M&Ms.






• Just because he's cute.






• When one got jacked from him by another little kid who came in later he said,"Hey you, this is ain't yours! It's mine!"
• War Pigs cover as I can assure you, you've never heard before- yes, The Dresdnen Dolls and it's geat.