OK, this is from the Slate article on body armor:
No soft material can provide complete security against all types of bullets or multiple hits in the same place (which is why the term "bulletproof" is out of vogue), but the National Institute of Justice (the Department of Justice's research agency) has developed standards for determining to what extent a product is "resistant." Type IIA armor, for example, should protect against a 9 mm-caliber, full-metal-jacketed, round-nose bullet travelling at 373 miles per second. Type IIIA (the highest standard for a flexible, as opposed to hard material) protects against a 357 SIG flat nose bullet fired at a velocity of 448 miles per second.
Anyone notice anything wrong with this paragraph?
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Jesse White Tumbling Team!
Is that some kind of Blagojevich joke?
How many bands did Delaware get? Doesn't it seem like there were a bunch? How come they get to bogart the parade?
Is Ray Nagin a Mayor? Because there's some big Mayors meeting/delegation in DC right now.
Yeah, he's the mayor of New Orleans.
I didn't know Hodgman was on Twitter!
Anyone notice anything wrong with this paragraph?
I assume they got their units wrong.
I knew about the Mayor thing because I saw the SF Mayor on MSNBC this morning.
But I disagree with many of you about his statement. "I hope he fails" isn't evil. It's not laudable. It's not respectable. But it's honest. I believe, deep down, Rush hopes Barack and any vestige of what he derisively terms, liberalism, fails. I won't condemn him for saying it aloud.
When we invaded Iraq, some part of me hoped we wouldn't find WMD. The evidence was so flimsy, the reasons for invasion so questionable, that I didn't want W to be right. I just didn't. Yes, it cost numerous innocent lives, and had they found WMD those lives wouldn't have been lost in vain, yet part of me still hoped they'd fail.
I don't want to say it's evil or not, but I can say I think it's wrong-headed. We're in a mess. I want something and healthy and right to fix it. If I have been attracted to and/or holding onto the wrong ideologies, and someone tries something I'm against in theory and it works and it's good, I'll be glad of it -- not mad that it worked -- and not hoping against hope that it fails.
And I was the same way when we invaded Iraq in 2003. I thought we were wrong to do so, but I hoped that we would be proven right. I love my country more than I hate Republican ideology.
How many bands did Delaware get? Doesn't it seem like there were a bunch? How come they get to bogart the parade?
Only three that I saw - UofD, Del State, and my Tigers. Don't be a hater, quester! I think this is the third inaugural parade for my HS band, and they've been in the Rose Parade several times. They rock.
t /end bragging about a band I haven't seen perform in 20-odd years
And, look, there's a band from Maine.
For a second, I thought this band was playing, "Yes We Have No Bananas"
