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*** Ever wonder how your car would fare in a crash at various speeds and angles? Check out these videos.

(Via Synthstuff)

*** I can't vouch for this deli in Rhode Island, but Braintree's "Mugabe's Package Store and Desert Minimarket" has excellent deals on Amarula liquor, and "Hitler's Hoagies" in Spokane makes a ham sandwich that's to die for.

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"To send men to the firing squad, judicial proof is unnecessary...These procedures are an archaic bourgeois detail. This is a revolution! And a revolutionary must become a cold killing machine motivated by pure hate. We must create the pedagogy of the The Wall!" --Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

"The Wall" meaning the wall that Che Guevara so happily put people up against to shoot them.

But Che didn't always bother with the wall. One of his favored methods of killing was to tie his victim to a chair, gag him, walk around the room a bit ranting at him, and then slowly walk up, pistol in hand — and splatter the victim's brains and skull across the room while his companions watched.

(Via Prieto)

*** The blogger "Gaypatriot" has been intimidated into retirement by serial Republican outing activist Michael Rogers. GQ ran a story on Rogers this month, and it's pretty clear that his mission statement has crossed the line from "legitimately exposing blatant hypocrisy" to "enthusiastic witch-hunt and campaign of intimidation."

CY notes some strange bedfellows.

*** TacJammer recounts a recent visit to the USS Carolina:

If I hadn't earlier received that 30-minute phone call, I'd never have met the man. Call it serendipity. I had actually met and spoken with a man who had stood on the decks of that very ship while under fire from the Japanese. The weightiness of the encounter didn't fully hit me for a few minutes. I had met a hero. No, I don't know his name, but as far as I am concerned, all those men were heroes.

I felt similarly awed when I spoke to Al Farris prior to the dedication ceremony for the WWII Memorial:

"I covered a lot of battles. We got hit (by kamikazes) amid-ship. Let's put it this way, they took our library out on us, and the post office - that pissed us all off. Never heard so much swearing in your life. It was bad, it was bad. Nobody would really realize, and you can't explain it unless you was there. All you could see was planes, the sky was black, and they was going in all directions. And of course the task force was real busy, they were knocking planes down, and the one that hit us, and I believe one of our gunners hit it, but it was coming in our direction and it hit us amid-ship. Didn't stop us."

"Most of it was air-to-ship. Earlier it was ship-to-ship, but they backed off, 'cause we had so many DD's and small cruisers coming up. We were more like a lead ship, with a wolfpack behind us. We'd bring 'em out and the wolfpack would go in there and raise Hell with 'em. Plain English. I don't plan on bein' too polite on words, I say it just the way it comes out; that's my nature. I come from Maine, you say it just how you think it. We're fighters, in Maine. When there ain't no war on, we get drunk and fight each other, just to stay sharp."

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