This has absolutely nothing to do with world peace or indvidual liberty, but...

... I need to tell you that the film Barnyard and the spin-off series Back to the Barnyard weirds me out.

The main character is Otis, the boy cow?

Oddly enough, Wikipedia asserts that Otis is not alone among bovine creatures in cartoons with big swinging udders:

In the real world a male bovine is called a bull or a steer and does not have an udder. However, in this film several characters are "male cows" with an udder, while there is a character who is a bull. The director of the movie told Nick Magazine he did this for fun.[2] This is, however, not the first time cattle have been portrayed in this way. In the United Kingdom, Boddingtons Bitter featured an animated "male cow" in some of its 1990s advertising, and recent computer animated adverts for Anchor butter portray two "male cows" as having udders. Also, the Dairylea adverts in the UK have male cows with udders. A more recent advert portrays that they really are male because they all have male voices.

My five-year-old grandson thinks its great.

Me? I haven't been so confused since I found out Tinky Winky was on the make.

This, by the way, is the difference between a solid, macho libertarian-leaning blog like The Colossus of Rhodey (wherein you will find Hube writing posts on the best and worst Iron Man armor of all time) and a left-libertarian blog written primarily by a guy who just finished watching an unsatisfying Stargate Atlantis next-to-last-episode, and who is at least momentarily tired of writing about serious shit.

We'll get back to things like just wars and proportional response tomorrow.

In the meantime: Otis?

PS for Hube: I'm not happy that the very first gold-painted armor in the original shellhead design didn't make the list, particularly for the big Iron Man v Iron Man fight with Tony Stark back in the old armor to take on the android who'd usurped his place [Iron Man #18]. I was not a big George Tuska fan, especially when Johnny Craig was doing the pretty bland inking, but this one struck my fancy--especially the scene where the golden shellhead grabs the red-and-gold android by the feet out of mid-air and slams him to the ground.

Can't find that image, but here's the cover:

Comment Rescue (?) and child-related gun violence in Delaware

In my post about the idiotic over-reaction to a New Jersey 10-year-old posing with his new squirrel rifle , Dana Garrett left me this response: One waits, apparently in vain, for you to post the annual rates of children who either shoot themselves or someone else with a gun. But then you Libertarians are notoriously ambivalent to and silent about data and facts and would rather talk abstract principles and fear monger (like the government will confiscate your guns). It doesn't require any degree of subtlety to see why you are data and fact adverse. The facts indicate we have a crisis with gun violence and accidents in the USA, and Libertarians offer nothing credible to address it. Lives, even the lives of children, get sacrificed to the fetishism of liberty. That's intellectual cowardice. OK, Dana, let's talk facts. According to the Children's Defense Fund , which is itself only querying the CDCP data base, fewer than 10 children/teens were killed per year in Delaw

The Obligatory Libertarian Tax Day Post

The most disturbing factoid that I learned on Tax Day was that the average American must now spend a full twenty-four hours filling out tax forms. That's three work days. Or, think of it this way: if you had to put in two hours per night after dinner to finish your taxes, that's two weeks (with Sundays off). I saw a talking head economics professor on some Philly TV channel pontificating about how Americans procrastinate. He was laughing. The IRS guy they interviewed actually said, "Tick, tick, tick." You have to wonder if Governor Ruth Ann Minner and her cohorts put in twenty-four hours pondering whether or not to give Kraft Foods $708,000 of our State taxes while demanding that school districts return $8-10 million each?

New Warfare: I started my posts with a discussion.....

.....on Unrestricted warfare . The US Air force Institute for National Security Studies have developed a reasonable systems approach to deter non-state violent actors who they label as NSVA's. It is an exceptionally important report if we want to deter violent extremism and other potential violent actors that could threaten this nation and its security. It is THE report our political officials should be listening to to shape policy so that we do not become excessive in using force against those who do not agree with policy and dispute it with reason and normal non-violent civil disobedience. This report, should be carefully read by everyone really concerned with protecting civil liberties while deterring violent terrorism and I recommend if you are a professional you send your recommendations via e-mail at the link above so that either 1.) additional safeguards to civil liberties are included, or 2.) additional viable strategies can be used. Finally, one can only hope that politici

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