Not a lot of commentary today, just some quick links.
From the world of Gaming, the makers of Doom (I think) have resurrected the comic book adaptation of Doom. Yes. A comic book about a nearly silent, inarticulate hero in search of the BFG 9000 to kill space monsters. Oh the “Allow me to communicate to you my desire to have your guns.”
From World of Warcraft comes a film about a merry party of adventurers preparing to launch an assault on a nest of dragon eggs to earn some loot. One of their members, Leeroy Jenkins, just gets carried away with the thought and rashly gets his party into some serious trouble. “At least I have a chicken.” Of special note, however, isn’t just the movie itself, but the comments on the linked page. Apparently there is some contention as to whether this is staged or not (does it really matter?) and controversy surrounds whether or not getting your party members destroyed can be funny (the answer is yes).
Sample:
“you f-gs who are wh-res and wrote in complaining it was his fault and is not funny because he killed everyone need to go kill yourself witha piano wire for taking an african sucking african game way to seriously You guys should really go f-ck ur self cause u are stupid as hell.”
Seriously. I really think he means “a frickin’” and not African, but, who knows, maybe the game is itself from Africa.
OpinionJournal’s Best of the Web has an item today regarding something James Taranto calls The Morgentaler Effect, essentially the Canadian version of the Roe effect, which is what they call the increase in conservative children based on the left’s higher likelihood to use abortion and the fact that most children tend to follow the politics of their parents. Taranto quotes Henry Morgentaler, the abortion doctor whose trials led to the legalization of abortion, in the cbc article as saying
“By fighting for reproductive freedom, and making it possible, I have made a contribution to a safer and more caring society where people have a greater opportunity to realize their full potential,” he said, shortly after receiving his honorary doctor of law degree from the University of Western Ontario in London.
“Well-loved children grow into adults who do not build concentration camps, do not rape and do not murder,” said Morgentaler, 82, who himself survived a Nazi death camp.
Funny, I would have thought that an abortion doctor would be a liberal, but apparently he feels that an increasingly conservative society is a safer and more caring society. Well, gee, thanks! We sure do try!
And one more link that is useful, not funny. My dear wife, Mrs. Bixby (Not Her Real Name) found this the other day and it is a godsend to anyone who works with measurements. Online Conversion is a source for all kinds of automatic weights and measures conversions (from English to American to Metric, etc). NASA and Lockheed Martin could have used this page six years ago. What a shame.
In related news, Discovery is on the launch pad and the Return to Flight has begun. I can’t wait. I love space and would love to reach it someday. My daughter recently went through a phase in which she wanted to be an astronaut. It seems to have passed, but the seeds are still there. Maybe I’ll never see space, but my progeny can.