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Back To The Third World
Power outages so no new posts for a while. See y’all on the other side…
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
Oh man… when this is the outcome, you just have to read the article (and watch the video):
Seconds after police pulled up, the man attacked a female officer, striking her twice with a screwdriver. Most everyone on the scene then shot Payton 14 times.
And quit that sniggering.
snigger (v.) — the snort of laughter you make when some dumbass Black guy gets shot while committing a felony.
Monday Funnies
I’ve got those “can’t-make-it-to-the-kitchen-for-my-Monday-morning-coffee” blues…
So to wake us all up, a few things to laff at:
(that’s a fake post, but I bet they wanted to say that)
An off-the-cuff communication, with an inscrutable signature:
And still in the corporate world:
And a sign that really should be unnecessary, but no doubt there’s a good reason:
…although I would say that’s every day, myself. And on a related topic:
(For my non-Hispanic Readers, “vato” means “dude”, and “pendejo” — in this circumstance — means “dumbass”.)
Update: Power failure last night so I didn’t finish this post. So just to round it all off:
On This Day
Forget that Valentine’s Day nonsense. THIS is the reason why Feb 14 should be a national holiday.
My 1911:
Feel free to indulge your gratitude in Comments. Just be aware that comments not pertaining to the wonders and greatness of the 1911 will be deleted, with prejudice.
Colonial War
Over the years, many people have written to me asking about early South Africa, and more specifically about the Boer War (or, as the Boers called it, the Vryheidsoorlog, or [Second] War of Freedom) from 1899-1902.
A few days ago, I found an old 1992 documentary on BoobTube, and it’s not bad — only just a tad over an hour — and it covers the period quite well, and impartially. So that’s your weekend viewing assignment. (There will be a test.) If any questions of history remain, write to me and I’ll put the answers up in a follow-up post next weekend, when I’ll talk about my family’s relationship to the war.
There are three books I’ve always recommended on the topic: Rags of Glory by Stuart Cloete, and the book it’s partially based on, a campaign journal called Kommando written by Deneys Reitz, a wartime Bitter-Ender (you’ll get that explained in the video above) who went on to become the Deputy Prime Minister of the unified South Africa. Both are absolutely brilliant — Cloete’s book also incorporates a view of the Boer War from the British perspective, and it’s both accurate and illuminating.
The third — an actual history book — is The Boer War by Thomas Pakenham, generally regarded as the sine qua non of historical sources for the conflict. Written during the late 1980s, it’s devoid of any hint of the political correctness which infests later works on the topic.
Enjoy.