Headline: Chopstick pierces tot’s brain through nose
Cultural trivium:

Chen said Li’s neurosurgeon was perfect for the job since he had extensive experience with surgeries involving chopsticks lodged in eyes, foreheads and necks.

For years, people complained during the W. years about preemptive military action, endangered civil rights, the terrorism-inducing inhumanity that is the USA, all of which was counter-intuitively (to them) effective in keeping the bad guys away from the homeland. The same ones are starting to crow that it is inevitable that some bad guy will get through and cause major terrorist damage. And when that happens, by golly we shouldn’t blame anyone — especially current government leaders — since, you see, it was inevitable.

The reasoning looks sound — if you ignore time. Yes, eventually, some guy is likely to successfully exploit one of the many weaknesses of the system. But the failures don’t have to happen on this guy’s watch. One can fight them by reacting to what they’ve tried, predicting what they’ll try next … smart and willing people can put up a fight.

But what does Mr. Security suggest? To roll over: all those new security measures and evolving counter-tactics are all a stupid game we should stop playing. Maybe they bad guys will just leave the “playground” and go home to shag some goats. Right. Or else they will succeed in an attack against weakened defenses, in which case it sure wouldn’t be our chief-executive pal’s fault, since it was inevitable.

Brilliant.

As our third novelty item today, witness the headline Bogus Lawyer, Doctor Tries to Visit Fort Hood Massacre Suspect Nidal Hasan.

OK, don’t get excited, it wasn’t some vigilante who almost managed to shortcut the legal process and kill the guy.

But read the article to the bottom.

Hasan is charged with 13 counts of premeditated murder and 32 counts of attempted premeditated murder in the Nov. 5 shootings. He is undergoing rehabilitation for paralysis.

Yes, you read that right. The mass murderer is undergoing rehabilitation, at taxpayer’s expense no doubt.

So perhaps the intruder wasn’t a vigilante, just an auditioning death panel adviser wannabe, looking to cut medical system costs by talking the good Mr. Nasan into declining the rehabilitation services. Better luck next time.

3.0-year-old Stuart comments:

Your bum is too fat. It is monstrous.

Wow, lefty intellectuals caught introspecting.
It it’s serious, it’s tragic. If he’s joking, it’s not very funny…

Whom is one to trust on the efficacy and means of terrorist interrogation? People who do it, who know,, or whiny torture shriek monkeys?

I was doodling around with our home synthesizer, with the brats and woman in the next room over. After fifteen minutes with my uneducated fingers, the wife comes over, and says

Hey, that sounds like boring elevator music. Try something more exciting. (Like what?) Like some baroque, with a twist of classical.

Yes, I am married to someone who thinks “baroque, with a twist of classical” is more exciting than modern elevator music.

Lucky me.