Northman's Fury

Cool little game animation, but I think it works better than the real deal does so far.

It appears that one of the adoring Albanians Bush greeted in his recent visit decided to grab himself a souvenir.

As part of a military effort to develop non-lethal weapons, the proposal suggested, "One distasteful but completely non-lethal example would be strong aphrodisiacs, especially if the chemical also caused homosexual behavior."

The documents show the Air Force lab asked for $7.5 million to develop such a chemical weapon.

"The Ohio Air Force lab proposed that a bomb be developed that contained a chemical that would cause enemy soliders to become gay, and to have their units break down because all their soldiers became irresistably attractive to one another," Hammond said after reviwing the documents.

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Gay community leaders in California said Friday that they found the notion of a "gay bomb" both offensive and almost laughable at the same time.

Laughable is about how I’d describe it. This sounds like the plot to a bad movie from the 50’s. The scary part is the article says this proposal was brought forward in 1994. How far behind the times are these guys?

Besides, don’t people in the military read military history? If you think turning your opponent’s army into a bunch of gays is going to cut down their effectiveness, you obviously never heard of the Sacred Band of Thebes.

John Rogers over at Kung Fu Monkey has some thoughts:

This was compounded by an eerie emotional quiescence I experienced during my first weeks in Canada. I caught myself thinking: "Is this apathy ... or is this just what being relaxed actually feels like?" I just wasn't so angry. But anger, of course is part of what fuels the typing.

Lovely Wife developed an excellent theory. The coffee at Tim Horton's, Canada's ubiquitous coffee chain, is heavily drugged. Canada would be a non-stop raging 28 Days Later apocalypse if not for the fact we're kept sedated. She's working on the screenplay now.

I always knew there was something funky about Tim's coffee. If it really works, we need to work on its rapid expansion to our southern neighbours. We'll just hope it doesn't have the same side effects as the pax.