The Obama on Mythbusters

The subject has been well-covered except for an historical note. Mind you, I am not chastising  His Obamaness for his little joke; I am merely amused by differing standards of what constitutes horror.

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Ronald Reagan's unaired  joke while recording his weekly radio address: "We begin bombing in five minutes."

Media reaction: "Oh my God. Cowboy. Cowboy. Paranoid warmonger.  Bonzo at the Button. We are doomed!"

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Barack Obama on his Mythbusters cameo:  "I didn't get to blow anything up. I am a little frustrated with that."

Media reaction. (1) How cute. (2) Shrug.

Heady Science

(From our series on  great spread-spectrum technology breakthroughs in the 20th Century.)
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The Brent Favre Crisis

Commenting  to  Wyatt Earp on the Favre crotch shot, Mrs.Crankipants earns this week's coveted TMR Citation for Classic Cutlery:

Having seen the pictures of his package, an ATM receipt would have been more impressive.

The Associated Press and the Assault Rifle

My mole in in the mainstream media alerts me to a development in newsthink. This appeared in the drop at sundown:

Our friends at the AP issued a style update yesterday. It's an attempt at clarification of the term, but presents some obvious problems.

"assault rifle

   A rifle that is capable of being fired in fully automatic and semi-automatic modes, at the user's option. Designed for, and used by, military forces. Also used by some law enforcement agencies. The form: an

M16 assault rifle, an AK-47 assault rifle."

After all these years...

At minimum this should reduce references to Winchester 74 assault rifles. We should all write something nice about the AP today in recognition the Skinner dictum that any tick of good behavior, no matter how slight, should be rewarded.