happy juneteenth

As you may very well be aware, Juneteenth is celebrated a little differently in the Midwest – it's more of a somber occasion, celebrated with the bi-annual Releasing of the Speckled Newts to acknowledge Father Igor the Hideously Disfigured's contributions to nightmarish bedtime stories.  All the kids love chasing the newts down the street, picking them up, and throwing them into the Woodchipper of Doom.  Everyone laughs and laughs until The Naughtiest Kid of Them All (as voted with a rousing game of Heads-up-7-up played by The Supreme Tribal Council) has his/her left foot customarily amputated.  That's really when it gets somber.  That, and during The Kitten Feeding (to the Dobermans).

Thanks to John for reminding me that yesterday was Juneteenth, also known as Emancipation Day or Freedom Day, the holiday celebrating the abolition of slavery.

that's irony

Believe it or not, the US military screwed up when attempting a software update on their GPS system.  The resulting glitch turned about 10,000 GPS recievers into expensive paperweights for about two weeks.  But that's not really ironic.  During the Gulf War, Saddam tried to jam GPS signals as the US invaded Iraq.  However, his GPS jamming device was destroyed by a GPS-guided bomb.  That's ironic.  And funny.