And Still I Persist

Sadly we now have photographic evidence what lies at the end of the rainbow…..

Yes, it’s a portal-pottie. You are invited to dig for the pot of gold within.

As I’ve written here previously, I had the honor many years ago of flying out and landing on the USS Nimitz, then spending 24 hours on her. Well, P. J. O’Rourke — one of my favorite living political commentators — recently had a similar trip. His account is both funnier and better written than mine:

Landing on an aircraft carrier is…To begin with, you travel out to the carrier on a powerful, compact, and chunky aircraft–a weight-lifter version of a regional airline turboprop. This is a C-2 Greyhound, named after the wrong dog. C-2 Flying Pit Bull is more like it. In fact what everyone calls the C-2 is the “COD.” This is an acronym for “Curling the hair Of Dumb reporters,” although they tell you it stands for “Carrier Onboard Delivery.”

There is only one window in the freight/passenger compartment, and you’re nowhere near it. Your seat faces aft. Cabin lighting and noise insulation are absent. The heater is from the parts bin at the Plymouth factory in 1950. You sit reversed in cold, dark cacophony while the airplane maneuvers for what euphemistically is called a “landing.” The nearest land is 150 miles away. And the plane doesn’t land; its tailhook snags a cable on the carrier deck. The effect is of being strapped to an armchair and dropped backwards off a balcony onto a patio. There is a fleeting moment of unconsciousness. This is a good thing, as is being far from the window, because what happens next is that the COD reels the hooked cable out the entire length of the carrier deck until a big, fat nothing is between you and a plunge in the ocean, should the hook, cable, or pilot’s judgment snap. Then, miraculously, you’re still alive.

Yep. Read the whole thing.  ..bruce w..

I have written before about how our current primary cycle is netting us the weakest / least electable candidates possible. In fact I had advocated that we consider alternate forms of selecting candidates.

Now from the world of pro wrestling, this gem!

I have to marvel at how they got the ears to stay on, and the hilarious comments that the mock Bill Clinton is rattling off before and during the fight.

Genius!

Video o’ the day:

Hat tip to Metafilter. ..bruce w..

It’s April 21st, and that means it’s the birthday of the one and only Bruce Webster!

Please join me in wishing him a wonderful an happy birthday.