The word “decommissioned” should appear in that headline. Details here: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=c51_1342677437
July 22, 2012
HMCS Victoria torpedoes and sinks US Navy ship!
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Guild Wars 2 final beta weekend, day two
This is the final beta weekend for Guild Wars 2, and I’ll be posting a daily journal of my experiences at GuildMag over the weekend. This is my entry for Saturday.
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QotD: The magical transformative powers of government service
Folks in the government seem to believe that government service is magic and transformative. They tend to view the citizenry they rule as made up of imbeciles and rubes who can’t be trusted to think for themselves. Yet even though they themselves are uplifted from that same crowd of rubes, they think that their governmental position qualifies them to sort out what folks should be buying and doing and saying from what they shouldn’t. Is the electoral process mystical? Does cronyism imbue its beneficiaries with some dark art? Does civil service stamp a lightening-bolt scar on your forehead? I can’t say. When I was with the government, my feelings of superiority were premised on callow youth and sheltered upbringing, not upon my government salary. I must be a born muggle.
Ken White, “You Knew I Was Going To Write About This”, Popehat, 2012-07-17
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