That sounds like some of the callers to the Speak Out section of my parents' local paper -- you don't even have to write a letter to the editor anymore! You can just call and share your thoughts, which then get printed in the paper. It's highly amusing much of the time, I tell you what. Clearly there are like four cranky old guys who call in several times each week.

Ours was Tell the Times. They actually got rid of it about a year or so ago. I think it was because they knew it made the town look stupid.

I wouldn't get worked up about one crazy either. But, the thing is, a lot of people don't consider that attitude so crazy. Hell, an ex-president said we weren't Americans.

Every time I go home, they have a new one posted on the fridge, because they're hilarious.

I have a 130lb rottie laying at my feet.

I love him and want to take him home.

There are ongoing fights that occur in Sound Off. It's like a slow-motion flamewar. Without curses. Hilarious.

Am I imagining things or am I seeing Gina Torres in those ads for that show about the "accidental" private eye?

I just took a smoke break and walked around the block. First I was entertained by a skinny hipster boy wearing pink girl jeans, and then I was nearly run over by three cops coming out of the Corner Bakery and charging toward the Daley Center.

I think we're on the same block.

Get off of our country.

This always makes me want to invoke my indigenous ancestry. Who's country, now?

I had no idea that Britan had such a big cheap Samurai sword problem.

I was reading about it recently in the BBC press. It's mostly a problem in Scotland where they have a lot of knife fights and murders by local gangsters. Swords are the next step up. See when you have effective gun control people naturally slide on down to sharp and pointy things.

This is god's country, aurelia. And don't you forget it.

I just got a job application from someone who states that this would be her first full-time job, and she'd appreciate a salary over $40K. Yeah, not in the nonprofit world, babe, sorry. Even in New York.

Guns don't kill people, the natural sliding scale of pointy things kill people.

Navy Researching Vomit Beam

IVC proposes to investigate the use of beamed RF [radio frequency] energy to excite and interrupt the normal process of human hearing and equilibrium. The focus will be in two areas. (1) Interruption of the mechanical transduction process by which sound and position (relative to gravity) are converted to messages that are processed by the brain. (2) Interruption of the chemical engine which sustains the proper operation of the nerve cells that respond to the mechanical transduction mechanisms referenced in item (1). Interruption of either or both of these processes has been clinically shown to produce complete disorientation and confusion.

Wow! Through the walls? That even beats the Active Denial System -- the pain ray that Noah wrote about the other day. Invocon even touts its device as a "Star Trek hand-held Phaser Weapon set on 'Stun'."

However, rather than causing intense pain, like the Active Denial System, Invocon is advertising a weapon that boasts the ability to go through walls and incapacitate everyone in a room by making them lose their balance. "Second order effects would be extreme motion sickness," the company notes.

Warning - link has picture of some guy throwing up.