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I'm reading this 8 hours down the worldline, and I hope there are more installments.

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1. The fuck?

2. The pressure cookers survived having explosive detonated inside them? There are pictures showing intact pressure cookers? (I refuse to click on prisonplanet).

3. It would never have occurred to me to make a bomb out of a pressure cooker, but given the concept, I naively assume that you would plant it on its side, because the lid seal is almost certainly going to give first (unless there is a manufacturing defect in the body). And you would put the explosive on the bottom of the cooker, and pack the shrapnel on the lid side of the explosive. So it seems that you would expect a directional blast. The lid would be moving at a reasonable fraction of the speed of the shrapnel (it's much heavier, but its cross-section is much larger), hence you wouldn't expect holes in the lid. Figuring out whether or not to expect pitting damage would require knowledge of the materials involved and quite a bit of calculation.

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Off Topic, but is that cat in your avatar carrying skittles by any chance?

I feel like Standing My Ground.

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I think I need whatever Mr. Beck is supposed to be taking.

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It's back.

Hey, Editrix, LillithCrane used a bad word in a comment yesterday.

The Palin we Shall Not Mention bad word.

Punish It.

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Glenn Yarborough, I think.

Old Folk Singer

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But he always makes me want to write O.F.F.S.

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The wingers think Mexico is invading us. Also, invaded by at least one Kenyan.

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Yesterday, I covered the mystery of the pressure-cooker bomb. Where are all the holes in the remains of the cooker that should be there, owing to the fact that ball bearings and nails were packed around the explosive material, and all this shrapnel would have been driven through the cooker out into the air? There are no holes.

At least we should see obvious evidence that shrapnel adhered to the walls of the cooker and pitted it considerably. We don’t see any of that.

Now, we are told, the lid of one of the cookers was found on a rooftop, blown there by the bomb. Yet, again, photos show there are no holes in the lid. No shrapnel adhering to it.</i>

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EQ. You've certainly turned sporadic of late. Things okay?

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Unfortunately, there is an "On and on and on and fucking on" position on his mouth switch.

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Putain de Putin.

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Best yet.

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You cannot, in fact, get significantly more Caucasian than Chechens and Georgians.

Aside: It's always been a matter of some interest to me how "Caucasian", which must have started out meaning "the barbarians north of the Caucasus Mountains" -- i.e., Russians -- evolved to include Italians and Frenchies and Germans and Brits, etc. And Scandinavians by elimination, if there was no such category. But maybe not Spaniards and Portuguese?

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Well,, since his nephews have probably put his family in mortal danger, I can't really blame him.

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Fap?

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