There is something to be said for picking your punches.

A small additional reason to watch the Superb BBC drama Peaky Blinders is some Gypsy Boxing.

Time of the year when my chainsaw gets dusted off.

Searching the Internet, learning from the pros:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-s...-mixed-at-best

Wow, have a lot of trouble believing flossing is not good for your teeth.

Hi, carlo!

I'm not manly enough to use a chainsaw. I'd rather use an AK-47 from a safe distance.

As the story goes, American soldiers took the Ak-47s from the dead Viet Cong as they were more rugged and could shoot through trees far more effectively than the early M-16 rifle.

You are so tough I don't even know where to begin.

"I'm not manly enough to use a chainsaw.."

Logging is a dangerous activity, well up there with driving taxis and hunting imaginary animals with a camera phone.

Keeping at bay from the Pokémon-tards is needing serious skills. They barely look to be interested in the our common reality.

A 747 gets ****ed:

Some unknown posted this pic somewhere. I like it so I'm reposting it here. Seems appropriate somehow.

Giving war a chance:

wars in the world

I wish that I'd known of this before yesterday's dental cleaning where my usual response to 'you have to start flossing' is 'yeah, yeah, yeah.' I could've gone w/ 'it doesn't do much' instead.

"The thin line between entertainment and war."

Hello,

Change has come. I can feel it.

August 4th is the Queen Mother's birthday. That is a factoid which you will never forget. It is one of those dates. Figures largely in The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Hueffer. Use of that name due to Anthony Burgess. I'm freeforming.

http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/goodsoldier/themes.html

On August 4:


1735 - Freedom of the press was established with an acquittal of John Peter Zenger. The writer of the New York Weekly Journal had been charged with seditious libel by the royal governor of New York. The jury said that "the truth is not libelous."

1753 - George Washington became a Master Mason.

1790 - The Revenue Cutter Service was formed. This U.S. naval task force was the beginning of the U.S. Coast Guard.

1821 - "The Saturday Evening Post" was published for the first time as a weekly.

1914 - Britain declared war on Germany. The U.S. proclaimed its neutrality.

1921 - The first radio broadcast of a tennis match occurred. It was in Pittsburgh, PA.

1922 - The death of Alexander Graham Bell, two days earlier, was recognized by AT&T and the Bell Systems by shutting down all of its switchboards and switching stations. The shutdown affected 13 million phones.

1934 - Mel Ott became the first major league baseball player to score six runs in a single game.

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And so it goes................

My ex-PhD prof is advising me to take significant amounts of vitamin D and invest in metals. His (and my) colleague, a unique and genuine individual who apparently can only eat at Burger King, has made millions of $$$$$ somehow via bitcoins.

1979 - my woman was born. Coincidence?

My plasma TV blew up 2 weeks ago. I've had trouble scheduling a repairman, but now realize until football season, I don't much watch TV.

TV repairmen still exist?

You will have a black TV then.

Last repairman I saw fixed in the white.