Quote of the Day

"The first Americans immigrated here from Asia across the Bering Land Bridge around 13,500 B.C. We know they were Americans because they immediately invented a super-weapon, killed everything in sight, and gorged themselves on meat."

- Kenneth Hite, aka princeofcairo, shares the opening joke he had to scratch from his new book, Complete Idiot's Guide to U.S. History, Graphic Illustrated. (The editors wanted to start in 1776.)

Oh, it's so on

Pirates fire on US Navy helicopter

While the US Navy does employ some service animals, to my knowledge, none of them are monkeys. The SEALs, while partial to black clothes and pointy bits, are not actually ninja.

We must therefore face the pirates with our robot minions! BUG Bot! Roll forth and, um, scour the pirates' hull clean... no wait... um... Somebody call SPAWAR, okay?