Recruiter called me today, trying to poach

I said, no, no you can’t encroach

But what kind of salary offer you gonna broach?

He said, What you makin’ now?

I said, That ain’t the game we play

Tell me how much

And I’ll tell you go or stay

He said it was beyond 90K — just a touch

But then he said it was just contractin’

So I told him we wouldn’t be transactin’

And so he went on his way

Obama Administration Considers Joining Publishers In Fight To Stamp Out Fair Use At Universities.

Ya’ll want to know why I am so anti-Obama? This kind of thing is exactly why. There is nothing more important (except the basic needs of life) in our society these days than access to information.

And who is on the side of evil in that regard? Yep, the Obama administration.

A News Literacy Guide from NewsTrust.net – Crap Detection 101.

I do all this naturally, and always have. If only more people would. Amazing how little bullshit detection most people do. Just inexplicable.

The Yorkshire accent has never been a particular favorite of mine, but Kate Rusby has about the most fun voice to listen to in the whole world.

I could listen to her read lists of IP addresses and military field manuals and be perfectly content all day long.

Another myth about women in combat is just that..a myth.

I’m not a woman, but I do have a small frame. I weighed about 155 pounds at the time in the army, and I once lifted and carried a guy who weighed 280 pounds and ran with him at a near dead run for 100 meters.

Trust me, if I can do that, nearly any well-trained woman can lift nearly any man.

It’s also harder to lift someone if they are incapacitated and not helping, but not that hard. Anyone can learn to do it in about five minutes.

The only place where upper body strength matters a great deal in combat is in a scenario that almost never happens any more (and even then, it matters less than you’d think*) – hand-to-hand combat.

Hand-to-hand combat in modern warfare is extremely, extremely rare. Probably one out of every 100,000 engagements have any hand-to-hand, and even then it is very brief.

As a drill sergeant once told me in the Army: “We will teach you to fight hand to hand. But if you do happen to find yourself fighting the enemy hand to hand, you have already fucking lost and probably better kiss your ass goodbye.”

*Unit organization and training matter far more

Why is Anne Hathaway hated?

Easy. She’s an extremely smart, very pretty, articulate woman who invariably speaks her mind and who doesn’t mince words, apologize for her success, or pretend that she’s not awesome.

In other words, misogyny. It’s no wonder she’s widely hated. Someone like that people from the Left and the Right will despise in about equal measure. And if you think there is substantially less misogyny on the left end of the political spectrum, hoo boy do I have news for you.

If she were a man, doing and saying exactly the same things, she’d be adored for it.

And while it’s always better on balance to be beautiful than not, being a beautiful woman who is not compliant and shrinking really leads to everyone bringing out the knives.

I’ve always really liked Anne Hathaway. She’s a great actress, has a low bullshit tolerance, and is always good in the parts she plays. That’s enough for me.

I got this from a vendor yesterday, in an email sent out to all their many thousands of customers:

Really, that’s how you want to represent yourself to all your customers?