death – Moe Lane

…Well, that’s typically how your average Grand Vizier goes.

It would appear that the King of North Korea has decided to embrace his inner Col. Gaddafi:

Guess sharks w/ lasers were unavailable RT @NBCNews: Kim Jong Un's executed uncle was eaten alive by 120 hungry dogs: http://t.co/nMxw87GDUp

— Ryan Williams (@RyanGOP) January 3, 2014

…although I should remind King Kim Jong Un that Gaddafi – despite his Amazonian Guard and habit of throwing $100 bills at the crowds – well, things ended badly for him. And by all accounts, it wasn’t a particularly quick death, either. That’s part of the Crazypants Cartoon Dictator meme, too.

Moe Lane

PS: Please note that the report is from a source that is, at best, dubious. Although it’d be interesting if the PRC is quietly indicating here that the aforementioned Crazypants Cartoon Dictator is getting tiresome.

Helpful reminder: Communism kills, capitalism saves.

Remember, in the 20th century:

One man’s individual drive and industry saved about a billion people*;
The impersonal forces of market-based capitalism redeemed about one billion people;
And international Communism? …Well, at least we kept them from killing more than one hundred million people.

Sorry to repeat the point, but it never hurts to remind folks that there was a right side, and a wrong side, and the Commies were on the wrong side.

Moe Lane

*Please note, by the way, that Norman Borlaug quite rightly felt that GMO opponents were, well, idiots with no historical awareness. This is largely because Norman Borlaug was a product of his time and culture, which was largely intolerant towards idiots with no historical awareness.

David Carradine has… died.

[UPDATE]: Welcome, Protein Wisdom readers.

Delicacy seems… best, under the circumstances; let us simply note that the original word in the first sentence was not ‘body.’

Which I guess means that providing this David Carradine link doesn’t really lower the tone any further.