A Lurid Tale of Military Weapons Development

Go on over to Long Awkward Pause and check out my twisted screed. I am, apparently, spreading like a fungus.

So I am supposed to write something – whatever pops into my defective head – upon seeing this picture. To be honest, my head about exploded, because Awesome Robot, and because Awesome Safe Sex. Actually, the second one not so much or so awesome, because No Junk Access (JA). Junk Access is important during sex, or so I seem to recall. I digress…Okay, I’ll stop bullshitting, because if you’ve landed here then you’re probably an Olympic-Class Bullshitter (OCB) yourself. Sort of like Howard the ‘Tard (HtT).

I have to admit, Chris found a photo of me. Yes, I know, but I think we all know that Rants (uhm, Me) is a more mature yet less refined blogger who happens to be in the Army. This picture caused me some bemused anal leakage (age issue) and muted pride, which I immediately destroyed (the pride, not the leakage) because Army team players…

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Six Word War

I was trolling the web and came across an interesting story about a fellow brother-in-arms.  It seems this former Marine decided to leverage the power of the internet to communicate

Freedom

Happy Fourth of July.  By now you know this is my favorite holiday of the year, far overshadowing both Christmas and

Memorial Day – 2013

Last year on Memorial Day I was stuck in Afghanistan, and the year prior I was not blogging yet.  This year I felt compelled to add a more well-written addition to the constellation of posts I like to

Had It Up To Here

I’ve had it up to here.  In case you can’t see, I’m making a choppy motion a few inches above my bald head, which is about seventy-three inches above the floor right now while I’m wearing my combat shitkickers.  I found this photo on

Why You Gotta Be A…

Why you gotta be a motherfucker… yeah, I cannot recall how many times someone has asked me that

Murphy’s Laws of Combat – Part Three

Well, here we’re about to wrap up the three-part series of posts dedicated to Murphy’s Laws of Combat.  I probably didn’t order them well, and I commented at random on all of these.  Again, I need to nod in appreciation to Archon, who did an awesome and very detailed post about non-combat laws, some of them also

Murphy’s Laws of Combat – Part Two

As I noted in Part One of this series, my hat’s off to Archon for stimulating the neuron (one of about five that still reliably function) in my head for this bout of

Murphy’s Laws of Combat – Part One

Being home briefly in some ways is a good thing.  Because beer, mainly, and because Jack, but also because bandwidth.  I’ve ranted poetic before on the limitations of what’s available to me over in

Veteran’s Day

Re-posted from 2011… also please visit John Erickson’s post here.  All old people jokes aside, I’d point out that this holiday, born out of the ashes of WWI, will be observed this year (2012) for the first time without a living veteran of that war.  And so the saying goes, we just fade away…

Those of you with history in my blog know in advance this is not going to be a funny post. Far from it: this entry is to ensure you all don’t miss the significance of today beyond the really serendipetous arrangement of the digit “1” when representing the date. Equally pleasing is the idea that all of our foreign friends can probably also tangentially enjoy the meaning of the day in some