Tuesday Misc or Miss?

I would never call someone a redneck.

There's a utility truck parked outside. Normally we'd assume it was the Feds. But we know for a fact that our neighbors needed some work done. Or did they? Exit question, have our beloved surrogate grandparent neighbors been turned by the Feds? I dunno. Maybe we're being a little paranoid. [Maybe?-Ed]

Remember Jacob Chansley, the Qanon Shaman? The New York Post reports, 'Newly revealed surveillance footage from Jan. 6, 2021, shows two Capitol police officers escorting Jacob Chansley, the be-horned so-called “QAnon Shaman” who has come to symbolize the riot, through the halls of the Capitol and to the very door of the US Senate.' Free Jacob Chansley! Stop this police frameup:

2023, 2003 and me. In March of 2003 we started a little novel, literally after finishing Nick Hornby's High Fidelity. It was spring break in the Somerset Hills School District, where we were more or less a permanent substitute teacher. We've been trying to pin down which week, exactly. The US began its liberation the Iraqi people*, on the 19th and we were in school that day. We recall asking a kid on the class PC to get us updates on what was happening. When we got home, Shock and Awe** was on the telly. We're guessing we began A Line through the Desert the week of the 30th, as we recall pleasant weather and opening up the windows to the cool spring air of bucolic Peapack, New Jersey and listening to Led Zeppelin. 

Okay...! We had a much better day than expected with World War 1990: The Final Storm. We spent a lot of time just getting things lined up, intellectually speaking [Intellectually, sure -Ed]. We also realized we never finished the Dixie Station attack scene on the Kastroma Missile Field. Two squadrons of A-6s, one off of Nimitz, one off of Eisenhower. This might be the most feasible of the NATO attacks on Soviet missile basses as Task Force 60 has already battered Soviet air defenses in this region.

*Go ahead and laugh, we do. 

**Go ahead and laugh some more. They really thought that would work. Cool footage, we admit. But the idea that blowing the crap out of government buildings in Baghdad would shock an awestruck populace into submission is, well....we can't quite find the word.