If things work as they should, this blog will go offline sometime tomorrow morning, and return Thursday morning.

It's 4:20 PM here and there have already been over 500 hits.  Not quite as bad as yesterday, but still.

Oh well, I could use a few days off, anyway.  Maybe by Thursday some of the furor will have died down.

Another Trinity Blood post.

Check these pictures out.  These are from the manga, not the anime.




Notice anything?  I didn't do any trigger finger photoshops on any of these--my gimp-fu is not that great, anyway.  It makes me think someone involved in this knows something about guns.  So far, all the pix I've seen of Abel with his gun "at rest" shows him with his finger off the trigger.  I know the second pic is kind of iffy, but in the bigger-res version it's easy to see that it's not inside the trigger guard.  The only time he is portrayed with a finger on the trigger, he is actually in the act of shooting (or at least aiming).

Anyone have any idea as to what exactly that gun is?  It looks to me like a Colt cap-and-ball, but maybe it's supposed to be a conversion to cartridge.  Considering how far into the future this story takes place, it's odd that anyone would be using a cap-and-ball conversion.  Maybe that's just a gun that he picked up when he was...much younger...and he's just been keeping it all this time.  So far I haven't found any pix showing him doing any reloading.  Whatever that thing is under the barrel, it doesn't look anything like a loading plunger, to me.

Anyhow, I thought that him having his finger off the trigger in all these pictures was kind of cool.

Also, he's left-handed, I think.  I'm not sure exactly what he's supposed to be doing in that second picture.

Via War On Guns is this petition to "forgive" Jim Zumbo.  Most of the "signatures" so far are facetious and sarcastic, but a couple are for real.  One signer left this comment:

I thought we lived in a country where folks could express their opinion without fear of attack or reprisal.

Proving that too many not only don't get the Second Amendment, but they also do not get the First.

The First Amendment protects your right to express yourself.  It also protects the right of those who disagree with you to voice their disagreement.  It's not a one-way street.  You express yourself freely, you have to be prepared for vociferous disagreement when you say something a lot of other people believe is wrong and/or offensive.

I really wish I could stop posting on this topic, but the idiots out there just won't let me.

Yesterday when I said the traffic was almost as high as last Tuesday, I was wrong.  It was higher.


I don't know exactly why there was a new explosion of traffic.  Most of it came from search hits.  I guess everyone is playing weekend catch-up.  It's certainly been a record-setting week here.

A small group of Alamo defenders sneak out and burn La Villita--"the little village"--a collection of huts across the river from San Antonio and near the Alamo, which the Mexican soldiers had been using as cover.