Eh, what?

Not only is that inadvisable for a whole host of reasons, but an RPG has to travel a certain minimum distance before arming I believe – I think it’s around 50 meters – and it determines this distance by rotation of the round. Some older ones didn’t have this failsafe I think, but I am not an RPG expert so I have no idea which model this is other than it is a Russian design.

RPGs launch so quickly that it’d definitely kill the guy it’s pointed at, but might not have enough momentum not to embed itself in his body, so it might continue rotating and detonate right there.

Or, it could be deflected in an unpredictable direction and kill the shooter and his buddies anyway.

Either way, what the hell.

Generally, I am a total fan of short hair. But Jenna Thiam’s hair is just gorgeously decadent. (And nope, that ain’t extensions.)

Any vacuum cleaners in her house must die pretty much weekly.

Breaking Bad: overrated, over here, and thankfully, all over.

There have been a dozen far better shows than that one, almost all of which got cancelled too early, Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles being one of them. Virtuality is another.

I don’t think Breaking Bad is a terrible show by any means. It’s average. I just think it gets far more credit than it deserves for doing things that earlier, better shows have done with more style, panache and credibility.

Why is this the case? People are always interested in a white guy doing something better than anyone else.

I’m really sick of the gun culture in the US. It seems like a mental illness to me. And most often, the people obsessed with guns are also misogynist, often racist, and in general just despicable humans.

Not all the time. But most of the time. I’m not some “effete” liberal guessing about this. I grew up in very rural North Florida. I know this.

I don’t know how so many people got it into their heads that having a gun makes them into some sort of gunslinger. I am putting it in mythological terms because apparently that’s the way many people think about it. But here’s the thing about a real gunslinger. She is still a gunslinger without her guns. In fact, that very idea – that the guns are only a tool, a symbol of something that you already are — is what defines someone like that.

Just like Tony Stark is still Iron Man without his suit.

People buy the tool and think it grants them magic powers, but in reality it just makes them dangerous losers with a tool they don’t understand and are incompetent with.

That’s fine if it’s a power saw or a belt sander. Most of the time, they will only hurt themselves. But with a gun it’s different. They can hurt or kill themselves and many other people. And often do just that.