Jack of Harts

I watched the interview between Bret Baier and Kamala Harris. It was more a debate than an interview, and though Bret asked questions pertaining to the issues at the top of what the electorate cares about, she did her normal word salad filibustering, taking large chunks of time to not answer the questions asked while attacking Trump as unfit and dangerous and all the other buzz words that have resulted in at least two assassination attempts on him. When Bret sought to bring her back around to the questions asked, she talked over his redirects. In one of the last questions before her aids waved an end to the interview, she actually crossed her arms, sighed, and talked down to Bret like he was a child. Her fans loved her performance and thought it was great that she took it to Bret based on the news articles I’ve seen. I thought her antics and attitude were disgusting. It will be interesting to see if she hurt or helped her standing with the Kamala Curious by acting the way she did.

A SpaceX booster just lifted off from its cradle to launch a starship into orbit before flying back to land in the cradle it departed 7 minutes previously. “Single Stage to Infinity” is the dream according to Arlan Andrews, and this isn’t there yet, but it most certainly did “take off and land vertically, the way God and Robert Heinlein intended.” Also Arlan Andrews. This is so far up the technological ladder compared to where we were even ten years ago that it isn’t even funny. This was science fiction twenty years ago. This is the future now. This is the Moon. This is Mars. This is us becoming an interplanetary civilization in my lifetime. This is our species escaping the single billiard ball of doom. This is huge.

I play BattleTech, and I am one of those collectors who loves his old FASA stuff. And one of my friends who has been jonesing hard to get a regular BattleTech game going at his house wanted to game this weekend. So some dice got thrown, and we did some serious brainstorming about the future. So I got home, pulled out my old 3025 Mercenaries Handbook, and went to work building an old school merc unit for long term play. A company of mechs including a Locust, a couple Phoenix Hawks, a Warhammer, a Marauder, a Crusader, and several others. Add in six mixed infantry platoons, and a reinforced light armor company and I have everything from infantry transports to choppers to a nice light cavalry lance of Drillsons and Pegasuss. All flying in on an Invader, a Union escorted by a pair of Corsairs, and two Furies to hold all the support fun. And yes, if you aren’t into BattleTech, you now know how we geek feels when people talk about their fantasy football teams. Hehehe. So anyways, I think I’ve got a plan for future games, and that is awful nice. Now to throw it past the Big Guy and see what he thinks. 🙂