Hwaet! Seeking Missiles
America-hating leftoblogger “Curv3ball” (not his real name) wants to make a big deal out of how the US is always killing exactly thirty people in Afghanistan, like the only possible explanations were suspicious. If he loved his country more than he loved sneering at the troops, he would consider that this might be a natural outcome of recently developed, secret Beowulf technology. I vote that Curv3ball gets nothing from the dragon hoard whenever we finally find it, squirreled away somewhere in Tora-Bora.
Funny true thing completely and totally unrelated to the above, but I blog so rarely these days I have to smash posts together: My daughter is reading a light-hearted children’s novel called Red Cap, about a boy who runs off to become a drummer in the American Civil War. Early on his best friend gets his head taken off by a cannonball, but later it gets sad, as the kid ends up in Andersonville. Point is, as a result of her reading, she came to me yesterday morning and asked:
“Daddy, what does it mean when they say truth is the first casualty of war?”
This was a teachable moment to be siezed! Anyway, I wish I had more time to write proper blog posts with a unified theme rather than such scattered miscellanies. Just remember: Curv3ball must die. And then his horrid, monstrous mother, spawn of Cain.
Comment by Glaivester —
December 10, 2009 @ 9:35 pm
Hwaet?
Are you writing in Old English?
Hmm… a Beowulf reference in the final paragraph. Yeah, I think you are.
Beowulf mathelode, bearn Ecgtheowes:
Comment by Fraud Guy —
December 10, 2009 @ 11:18 pm
Hordes plunder hoards, not the other way around.
Comment by Jim Henley —
December 11, 2009 @ 12:06 am
@Glaivester: Also the first paragraph. It’s probably the best title I ever came up with.
@Fraud Guy: Just more of the baleful influence of Yglesias.
Comment by Eric Martin —
December 11, 2009 @ 12:14 am
Well Jim…
Comment by Jim Henley —
December 11, 2009 @ 12:18 am
It of course goes without saying, Eric, that that makes it the best post title in the history of blogging.
Comment by Eric Martin —
December 11, 2009 @ 10:59 am
It’s a contender. But I’m not throwin in the towel yet.
Comment by Nell —
December 12, 2009 @ 9:11 pm
When you get some time, and in a blogging mood, Jim, I’d sure like to hear how you responded the the LO’s question. Which breaks my heart, by the way.
Comment by matthew h —
December 12, 2009 @ 10:53 pm
Killer-hwaets, I think they are called.