Protestors in Tehran are being fired upon with automatic weapons, according to Reuters.

I guess whatever gun control Iran has didn’t keep it out of the hands of the pro-mullah thugs.

David Burge (aka Iowahawk) has a compassionate and wistful profile of another dying American industry.

Keep a hankie handy.

Wouldn’t you know, just when I swear off posting for the day, a thought occurs to me. I’ve been hearing this story all morning.

So, we kill four of them when they attack, and we pursue and kill another twenty seven. Nobody tells us if any escaped, which is to me the most important statistic, from a psychological standpoint.

Think about it. The Pali terrorists don’t mind dying if they get to take Jews with them, so it’s hard to dissuade them from their attacks even by killing them. But if every time the Fedayeen attack us in Iraq, they have no survivors, and we sustain no or minimal casualties, rendering the whole thing futile, I’ll bet the attacks will stop pretty quickly. Imagine their state of mind if they send out a squad against the Americans, and none of them return.

It may in fact be possible to dissuade them, even without killing them all. After all, contrary to the conventional wisdom of the media, it’s hope that fuels such attacks, not hopelessness. We have to take away all hope from Saddam’s minions (which will in turn boost the hope of the Iraqi people).

This is a lesson that we have to figure out how to apply to the Israeli situation. Unfortunately, I don’t think the State Department gets it yet.

In case you didn’t notice. I’m doing a lot of stuff around the house today, and I’m not particularly inspired.

I accused John Pike of being a physicist in today’s Fox column. Someone emailed me and asked me on what basis I did this. Doing a quick Google, I couldn’t find any evidence that he has any degrees whatsoever, let alone a physics degree. Does anyone have any information on his CV?

I accused John Pike of being a physicist in today’s Fox column. Someone emailed me and asked me on what basis I did this. Doing a quick Google, I couldn’t find any evidence that he has any degrees whatsoever, let alone a physics degree. Does anyone have any information on his CV?

I accused John Pike of being a physicist in today’s Fox column. Someone emailed me and asked me on what basis I did this. Doing a quick Google, I couldn’t find any evidence that he has any degrees whatsoever, let alone a physics degree. Does anyone have any information on his CV?

My Fox column is up. It’s new, though it’s got some repetition of previous recent posts.

I kvetch a lot about the ISS, and I do think it a misbegotten and mistaken program, but that doesn’t mean that we never get anything of value from it. Like this picture.

I just got a virus email:

Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It’s very dangerous by corrupting your files. Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV software can’t detect or clean it. We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus. You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your PC. NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV monitor maybe cry when you run it. If so,Ignore the warning,and select ‘continue’.

Yeah, I’ll be sure to do that. You’d think these virus writers would put a little more effort into at least making it look like English was their native language…