It’s not like they’re psychics or anything.
27 April, 2007
More Strange Beauty from Science
OK, this video needs a better narrator and more production values. It’s still cool what you can do with corn starch and water.
I’m old enough to remember when it was marketed (with a little coloring added) as “Phunque”. It didn’t take long to figure out how to make it at home with corn starch and water for a fraction of the price, so it was short-lived.
It never occurred to me to take it to this extreme, though. (Dont’ worry that it’s in Spanish. You’ll understand everything when you watch it.)
Duncan Hunter
I’ve heard him briefly on KSFO, and was favorably impressed. Apparently the folks at the Patriot Post are even more impressed.
I heard him use this line on the radio. It’s a good one:
In the March South Carolina contest, he drew to a statistical tie, at 22 percent each, with John McCain and Rudy Giuliani. “We were outspent 10 to 1,” he remarked, going against an “army of consultants.” Running the effort was his son, a Marine captain and OIF veteran. Of this, candidate Hunter quipped, “You know, that’s a pretty good match-up: one Marine versus 550 consultants. We did have the advantage.”
Meanwhile, in the British Army
Michael Yon provides gripping proof that not all British Military forces have devolved into simpering whimps. It includes one of his best battle portrait photos yet.
Update:
A few visitors to this blog seem to have missed the point of this article. It may in some way be understandable now that the shameful news about the “simpering whimps” in the Navy has faded from memory. My point with this post was to contrast the eminently professional and steadfast British Army, written of by Yon, with the aforementioned naval capitulation.
Lest anybody think I was picking on the British in general here, I would have used the same language to describe the same behavior on the part of any country, including my own.
To put that in words that even a semi-literate like “para sam” (whose comment was edited for taste, but not for syntax and spelling) might understand, it means “British Army good! Navy not so much!”
Predicting the Future, Redux
On the other hand, people who stop to think carefully about the problem can be remarkably good at it, as witnessed by this 1945 Atlantic Monthly Article.
