And in Classical Thoughts:
And seeing as it’s Halloween Week:
This one’s for Reader Stencil:
And speaking of making wise choices:
Now go out and get that Halloween candy because apparently, handing out boxes of .22 ammo to the kiddies is frowned upon, for some reason. Blame the Democrats for that one.
Here’s Brit actress Saffron Burrows, who enlivened the otherwise-dull movie Troy with a lovely, sexy appearance:
Maybe not so beautiful in the modern sense of the word, but in a classic sense — e.g. as she appeared in Troy… lovely.
I recently saw this SOTI:
…and I was immediately reminded of a pic of some medieval town I’d seen at C.W.’s place a while back, which triggered a similar response from me:
Add “Without aerial photography or observation” to the above list.
I don’t know how they did it, but they did, and it’s wonderful. I stand in awe.
This “Western civilization” is a fine thing, isn’t it?
And the hits just keep on coming:
Volkswagen will pause production of one of its most important cars next week amidst growing concerns of a chip shortage that could cripple its outputs.
Chipmaker Nexperia has frozen supply in a fallout from the ongoing US-China trade dispute, causing major disruption for the German automotive giant.
The Dutch government – under pressure from the US Trump administration – seized control of Chinese-owned Nexperia last month, citing intellectual property concerns.
In response, China curbed exports of its finished products that are needed by European car makers.
Of course, VW lies like a Democrat politician:
Volkswagen said earlier this week that it had ‘long planned’ to pause production of the Golf hatchback – its longest-running model and one of its biggest-selling products – at the Wolfsburg factory from next week but initially denied any connection with chip supply chain concerns.
However, on Wednesday the car maker told workers at other plants it cannot rule out assembly line stoppages due to the ‘dynamic situation’.
Yesterday, VW issued an internal letter to staff saying production had not yet been affected by chip shortages, but it could not ‘rule out an impact on production in the short term’ over supply chain issues.
And I get mocked for hankering after the good old days…
Oh, you wanted color?
Q.E.D.
Top 3 reasons why I’m NOT going to go for this discount offer:
No man should.
Alert Reader Eric K. sends me this lovely report:
A preliminary investigation revealed that an unidentified man followed a female customer into a beauty supply store and groped her, prompting employees at the establishment to demand he leave the premises.
“The male became increasingly verbally assaultive toward employees and customers, “the release noted. “He started throwing and damaging merchandise in the store. The incident escalated rapidly.”
While the man was reportedly threatening to kill and harm customers and employees, witnesses told investigators that they believed he was armed with a knife.
“A second customer in the store, fearing for the store employees, herself and other customers, retrieved a personal firearm and fired a warning at the male,” investigators said. “The male turned toward that customer, fearing she was going to be attacked, fired a second shot striking the male.”
And the result for El Gropo?
L.A. deputies and personnel with the Compton Fire Department responded to the scene where the man was pronounced dead by paramedics.
Details are sketchy at the moment, and as this happened in Southern California things may not turn out too well for Our Heroine.
However bad they may be, it won’t be as bad a result as what happened to the goblin. Thank goodness.