I will be guest-blogging this week at Jeff Vandermeer’s site. Now there are two places on the internet where you can go to read the opinions of a grown man who basically hasn’t done anything except play Fallout 3 for the last fortnight.

In Berlin in 1936, the Nazis put yellow spots on the cars of people who honked unnecessarily. The honking ceased.

“Honk if you know why you’re honking,” Slate.

From the Straits Times, via. 

BANGKOK - A MAVERICK Thai general who has threatened to bomb anti-government protesters and drop snakes on them from helicopters has been reassigned as an aerobics teacher, the Bangkok Post said on Friday.

Major-general Khattiya Sawasdipol, a Rambo-esque anti-communist fighter more commonly known as Seh Daeng, reacted with disappointment to his new role as a military instructor promoting public fitness at marketplaces.

‘It is ridiculous to send me, a warrior, to dance at markets,’ he said, before launching an attack on his boss, army chief Anupong Paochinda.

‘The army chief wants me to be a presenter leading aerobics dancers. I have prepared one dance. It’s called the ‘throwing-a-hand-grenade’ dance’, he said.

Seh Daeng is something of a folk hero in Thailand on account of his reputed undercover exploits in Cambodia and Laos during the Cold War.

His predictions of grenade attacks against People’s Alliance for Democracy (PAD) protesters occupying Government House made headlines last month, especially when they turned out to be correct.

One protester was killed and 23 wounded by a grenade blast on Thursday.

Seh Daeng has denied any involvement. — REUTERS

Not that I approve of dropping snakes on protestors, not without unusually good reason. It seems unfair both to the protestors and to the snakes; it also asks quite a lot of the helicopter pilots, who presumably are not (yet) trained for high-altitude snake-swarm handling.  On the other hand it shows a certain élan.  You wouldn’t want government officials doing this sort of thing, but it would be a good shtick for a supervillain.

I would very much like to see his throwing-a-hand-grenade-dance.

The new website design looks so nice and professional that I wish I had less childish content to fill it with. Oh well.

Gigantic Chef Flashes America With Monster Penis

Millions Rejoice

Instapundit and his readers fantasize about going and living in the hills if Obama wins, abandoning civilization rather than pay their taxes. (And then we’ll be sorry.  Then we’ll realize how much we miss them. Then we’ll realize how we all depended on the wealth-creating Randian genius of real men like instapundit, who is a law professor at a public university. Oh yes. Oh yes we will.  But it’ll be too late.)

How long does it take for this fantasy of rugged manly pioneer-spirit off-the-grid individualism to collapse into whining passive-aggressive bathos? It takes less than no time at all, as several days ago Mrs. Dr. Instapundit was already suggesting not tipping your waiters under an Obama administration, in order to teach the ungrateful proles the real meaning of socialism. 

There are millions of these people.  I wish they would all go away.  The off-chance that possibly, just maybe, one or two of these idiots will follow through on their threats and sulk off into the hills, where they will immediately starve or fall into a ravine or get eaten by a sheep, is reason enough to hope Obama wins.