Random Shots for Friday, 10 November 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

1. Posted to Facebook —

   I heard the BRRRT back around 1992-1993 at Ft. Indiantown Gap when I was in the Army Reserve — we were sitting about 5-10 yards off a road — the other side of the road was the impact area into which the rounds from their live-fire gun runs would end up.

   That was when I was living in Abington, PA — my house was under the approach path for NAS Willow Grove (now Horsham Air Field), so we would have A-10s, A-4s and C-130s going by overhead on a semi-regular basis.

2. Posted to Facebook —

   Worse than Nirvana, Stone Temple Pilots, or Faith No More?

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

1. The Cassandra Project by Jack McDevitt and Mike Resnick
2. The Kakistocracy — Do Look Down by “Porter”
3. Sputnik International — Quark Fusion Eight Times More Powerful Than Nuclear Fusion
4. The Washington Post — What happened when a Muslim ran for local office in Virginia by Atif M. Qarni
5. Evanescence — The Open Door
6. M2 Voice — Michelle Obama’s Doctor Goes On Record: ‘I Know What I Saw’
7. news.com.au [Australia] — Country on the brink of collapse by Lauren McMah
8. The Root from Gizmodo Media Group — Why Is Society Intent on Erasing Black People in Fantasy and Sci-fi’s Imaginary Worlds? by Ashley Nkadi
9. The Atlantic —
   1. The Middle East Is Nearing an Explosion by Robert Malley
   2. What Happens If China Makes First Contact? by Ross Andersen
10. Del Rey Books [Ballantine] — Saga of Cuckoo: Farthest Star by Frederick Pohl and Jack Williamson
11. The New York Times — Brooklyn Jury Finds 5Pointz Developer Illegally Destroyed Graffiti by Alan Feuer
12. Judas Priest — Metalogy