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REDIRECT ALERT! (Scroll down past this mess if you're trying to read an archived post. Thanks. No, really, thanks.)

Due to my inability to control my temper and complacently accept continued silliness with not-quite-as-reliable-as-it-ought-to-be Blogger/Blogspot, your beloved Possumblog will now waddle across the Information Dirt Road and park its prehensile tail at http://possumblog.mu.nu.

This site will remain in place as a backup in case Munuvia gets hit by a bus or something, but I don't think they have as much trouble with this as some places do. ::cough::blogspot::cough:: So click here and adjust your links. I apologize for the inconvenience, but it's one of those things.


Wednesday, January 05, 2005

The real story is not this: Marine Jailed for Refusing to Pick Up Gun

By ESTES THOMPSON, Associated Press Writer

RALEIGH, N.C. - A soldier who re-enlisted with the Marines after becoming a Seventh-Day Adventist has been jailed for refusing to pick up a gun. [...]

The real story is that there are still headline writers and reporters who have apparently not seen Full Metal Jacket--

THIS IS MY RIFLE, THIS IS MY GUN,
THIS IS FOR FIGHTING, THIS IS FOR FUN.


Anyway, I feel sorry for this kid--it's very apparent that he had never heard that the Corps is very big on guns and explodey things. I'm sure that sudden realization would be enough to make just about anyone get religion.


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