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You say it’s Monday morning and you already can’t wait for Friday, cousin?

Good news. Thanks to the magic of Internets, Friday comes early this week.



With added Eartha Kitt! And Isaac from The Love Boat!

You never knew an assistant photographer at a New York fashion magazine led such an action-packed life, did you?

FUN FACT: Based on the comic strip of the same name.

My hustle got no muscle,

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BECAUSE YR NEVER TOO YOUNG TO LEARN HOW TO SHOOT FOREIGNERS

ITEM: The Explorers program, a coeducational affiliate of the Boy Scouts of America that began 60 years ago as a way to prepare youths for jobs as police officers and firefighters – is training thousands of young people in skills used to confront terrorism, illegal immigration and escalating border violence.

“This is about being a true-blooded American guy and girl,” said A. J. Lowenthal, a sheriff’s deputy here in Imperial County, whose life clock, he says, is set around the Explorers events he helps run. “It fits right in with the honor and bravery of the Boy Scouts.”

The training, which leaders say is not intended to be applied outside the simulated Explorer setting, can involve chasing down illegal border crossers as well as more dangerous situations that include facing down terrorists and taking out “active shooters,” like those who bring gunfire and death to college campuses. In a simulation here of a raid on a marijuana field, several Explorers were instructed on how to quiet an obstreperous lookout.

“Put him on his face and put a knee in his back,” a Border Patrol agent explained. “I guarantee that he’ll shut up.”

Youth, patriotism, guns, violence and an unspoken assumption that the bad guys will be foreign brown people.

What could possibly go wrong?

By the way, is it just me, or does the second photo look like a scene from John Hughes movie? Or a Madness video? Apart from the guns, I mean.

Future people of tomorrow,

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FOOD TERRORISM: HARDER THAN IT LOOKS

In 2004, then-US secretary of health and human services, Tommy Thompson, said on Fox News: “I cannot understand why terrorists have not attacked our food supply. Because it is so easy to do.”

Turns out it’s not, actually.

G.R. Dalziel, at the Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, has written a report chronicling every confirmed case of malicious food contamination in the world since 1950: 365 cases in all, plus 126 additional unconfirmed cases.

Bruce Schneier has the details here, but the basic upshot of the results is this:

Most deliberate food-poisoning happens at home, and large-scale poisonings at best result in far more sick people than dead people. Food poisoning is effective for targeted assassinations (see: Alexander Litvinenko), but not really bioterror attacks.

So if yr afeared that Muslims or Mexicans either (1) deliberately infected pork with H1N1 or (2) might be inspired by the current outbreak to spike everyone’s chicken or tap water with cyanide, you can relax. Yr far more likely to be poisoned by poor food industry practices (see: salmonella-infected peanuts and milk that’s been spiked with plastic additives).

Don't you feel safer now?

Chow down,

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ALBUM COVERS WAITING TO HAPPEN #2

That’s the Space Shuttle Atlantis (via Warren Ellis and BoingBoing Gadgets).

The music? Probably Crystal Method or Fischerspooner? Something bleepy.

( The full monty behind the cut! )

Into the sun,

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