A short one, but a goodie:
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Author: Kim du Toit
Today’s Earworm(s)
If this is it… well, here we go again.
Twofer.
Dave Mason is reported to have absolutely hated the Headkeeper album — he said the record company complied the songs (from studio outtakes) and released it without him even knowing about it. But it’s one of my favorite albums of all time.
If what he says is true… a lot of bands’ best efforts don’t compare with his outtakes. But that’s Dave Mason for ya.
I saw him playing with Fleetwood Mac when they opened for Crosby, Still & Nash. After the concert, the general consensus in the Men’s Room was that his We Just Disagree solo bit during the Fleetwood Mac set was the highlight of the whole concert.
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
I don’t know why I bother to scan Teh Intarwebz for this kind of thing, because there are always a few Loyal Readers out there who send me glad tidings, such as this one from the Houston area:
Harris County deputies said the man was sleeping in his car because he had just gotten into a fight with his girlfriend.
Authorities said another man who may have had a pistol got into the vehicle and may not have realized the sleeping man was in the truck.
The would-be victim had what the sheriff said was an AR-15 and reportedly shot the man several times. The suspected thief was pronounced dead at the scene. Deputies said the suspect had already stolen from several nearby cars before the shooting.
The shooter reportedly stayed at the scene and was cooperating with law enforcement.
Let us all have a couple minutes’ silence for the dead goblin Our Hero’s eardrums… because nothing says owie like an AR-15 going off in a confined space with no hearing protection — well okay, the boolets (!) are going to make an owie as well at the naughty end, but that’s of no concern to us, and certainly not to the cops, who seem to have the correct attitude towards the whole episode.
“They shouldn’t be out doing it in the first place. I don’t believe that he realized that the reportee was sleeping in this truck before it was too late,” said Sgt. Ben Beall with the sheriff’s office.
One hopes that Our Hero makes a full recovery; the dead goblin won’t, but once again that’s not a problem for anyone except him.
News Roundup
(“This [mother] drinks it, that one doesn’t.” So much for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome.)
And speaking of French wisdom:
...little late to the party, mes amis, but à bas les Vertes! (Couldn’t have put it better myself.)
Speaking of Greens, and their Global Warming Climate Cooling Change© agenda:
...ah fucking hell, not this old chestnut again. This was supposed to happen back in 1975, when all the Smart Set was convinced a new Ice Age was upon us. Now that Covid has failed, Global Warming has morphed into Climate Change and nobody cares about either, here comes the Collapsing Gulf Stream again. Can I suggest that if it doesn’t collapse next year, all the scientific alarmists be scourged then hanged in the public square? Show of hands…
And speaking of capital punishment:
...someone tell me why people like this should not be broken on the rack, then beheaded. I need a good laugh.
Next: a parent who gets the picture.
...and good for her, say I. Hope she’s got a gun or two floating around, in case of looters. But she’s from Utah, so...
...and in other breaking news: Sherman Sacks Atlanta.
In Sex Wars:
...no.
In Medical News:
...keyword: Mexico. Also: “…all of whom had undergone cosmetic surgery like breast implants or butt lifts”.
In Serious Crime News:
...see, if he’d only stopped at three...
...and given who it was, our Potternerd should be thankful they didn’t shoot him dead on the spot. Although the shooting should have been confined to the fraidy-cats who called the rozzers on the poor kid.
In the Travel / Entertainment Dept.:
...and here I thought that “themed cocktails” was just another term for hookers in fancy dress.
...wait: a fireball? In a water park? Does not compute.
TAYLOR Swift and Travis Kelce are on course to become
the richest power couple in entertainment
...BFD. If Taylor Swift married some starving folk singer in Memphis, they’d still be the “richest power couple in entertainment”.
And now for the ever-popular 
And to finish this off, a stroll down 
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...oh well, I report, you decide:
Incidentally, when did “42” become middle-aged? Even when I was 29 (and not 69), I thought 40-year-old broads were sexy, not middle-aged.
But we can discuss all that another time, because that’s the end of the news.
Caption Competition #319
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Going Medieval
Britishland:
Brits: “If guns are banned, can we use swords?”
Britcops: “No.”
Brits: “How about crossbows, then?”
Britcops: “We’ll get back to you on that*.”
*The Home Office has launched an eight-week consultation to see if there should be a licensing system to control the use, ownership and supply of crossbows.
The Principality of Monaco plans to follow in the footsteps of its surrounding French neighbours by organising a national day dedicated to the collection of weapons and ammunition that have been found or inherited by individuals.
At the end of 2022, France managed to collect more than 150,000 weapons without inflicting legal or administrative proceedings on the weapons’ former owners.
The head of the Administrative Police Division, Rémy Le Juste, addressed the topic at the Monaco Police’s well wishes for the New Year, saying “this is a major subject which deserves everyone’s attention, given the somewhat troubled international context that we are going through.”
Le Juste admitted that “It still happens that our services intervene with individuals who find themselves owners through inheritance of undeclared weapons dating from the Second World War,” and added: “We encourage, from now on, all people who find themselves, despite themselves, possessing weapons to call on our services: either to have them destroyed or to make them unfit for their use, and this, without these people being subject to criminal charges, subject of course to the agreement of the judicial authorities.”
Only knights, the King’s men and the king’s favorites may own weapons of war. Peasants: non.
U.S.:
“A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”