Oh, the Horror, the Horror, of the *Bar News*

The Lost One has read his first exhilarating issue of his local Bar news' notification of punishments, and he is officially scared witless. It's not so much the extraordinary nature of the mistakes that get lawyers disbarred that terrifies him, as it is the ordinariness of the acts. Sure in the end the violations are HUGE, but you can almost always see the tiny point where a compromise was made, and the dark side took over, and then the lawyer started chasing it and...you get the picture. Scary. Still, the Lost One will just have to stay on the straight and narrow, eh? Until next time kids.

Monopoly, greatest spy gadget of WWII?

So the Lost One was at work, being all, productive and such when the whistle blew for lunch,(figuratively). So the Lost breaks out his brown bag and begins perusing the web. This story was just awesome. (Also love the title, *Get Out of Jail Free*)

Turns out the British (Ultimate spy stuff, you know it's an MI product) used Monopoly games as spy kits, complete with real bank notes for the spending pretty cool.
Later.

Adam Baldwin ≠ Jane Cobb

The *Firefly* and *Chuck* alumn, who has a habit of playing the kinda thick guy proves he's any thing but thick. The Lost One nearly cried at the lawyer like precision with which federal regulations were disected. But the best part: "as Jonah Goldberg once profoundly wrote:
'Unity Is Overrated: What’s so bad about partisanship?' " Darn Straight. Until next time folks.

Batman on Racism

So the LA Times has it's undies in the proverbial knot over a picture of The Messiah in chief as the Joker from *The Dark Knight*. Allegations of racism soon fly and well...this gets made. Heh. Worth it.

Why the nanny state sucks: A case study

From the civilization that used to rule the world, comes this story " 'I'll go abroad to keep my baby': Pregnant again mother of 13 vows to save new baby as sister calls for her to be sterilised":

A pregnant woman who has had all 13 of her previous children taken into care has vowed to flee abroad to prevent social workers taking away her 14th.

Okay, you're no doubt saying, any country can have a crazy person or two. But wait it gets so much worse:

Miss Winters, a heavy smoker who was herself taken into care as a teenager,
accused social workers of failing to help her achieve her deepest wish of having
a family and she would keep giving birth until she is allowed to keep one.

Read the article and you will see just how bad it is.

Did you catch it? Here is the Lost in the World's patened Crazy Cam (patent pending) for those who missed it:

[She]accused social workers of failing to help her achieve her deepest wish of having a family...

That's right crazy mccrazerton, thinks it's the government's job to make sure she has a child. But wait, there's more!

Turns out, the Brits haven't learned their lesson, Nanny State Ho!

The Children’s Secretary set out £400million plans to put 20,000 problem
families under 24-hour CCTV super-vision in their own homes. They will be monitored to ensure that children attend school, go to bed on time and eat proper meals. Private security guards will also be sent round to carry out home checks, while parents will be given help to combat drug and alcohol addiction.

How positively Orwellian of them. But there is hope, let's see what the opposition party has to say!

Shadow Home Secretary Chris Grayling said: “This is all much too little,
much too late."

Now that my friends, is some weapons grade crazy.

Man kills 300lb Bear with stick. Awesome? Not so fast.

Turns out the guy was a Marine back in the day. So in order to have a fair fight, he should have had one hand tied behind his back or wore an eye patch over his right eye, whilst agreeing not to turn left, or their should have been a knife. For the bear to use.

From the Article:

For Everhart, the 300-pound bear that attacked his sons was almost a problem too
big to handle.
"This one got a little too aggressive for me," he said. "If
the bear had gotten near my kids, I would have just jumped on it. Knowing me,
that's what I would have done..."

"...Then I would have ripped its heart from its chest, and ate it. Raw." Well, the Lost One is sure he meant to say it anyways.

Still, the Lost One supposes he will say well done to former (as if their is such a thing when one speaks of Devil Dogs) marine Chris Everhart. One toss, one kill, bet the ol' gunny is grunting, "Satisfactory". Via Ace (AAAE).

Lost In the World Official® Endorsement: Pride, Prejudice, and Zombies

Having not officially read the book, the Lost One endorses it all the same. Read the back cover and you will see why:

"It is a truth universally acknowledged that a zombie in possession of
brains must be in want of more brains." So begins Pride and Prejudice and
Zombies, an expanded edition of the beloved Jane Austen novel featuring all-new
scenes of bone-crunching zombie mayhem. As our story opens, a mysterious plague
has fallen upon the quiet English village of Meryton—and the dead are returning
to life! Feisty heroine Elizabeth Bennet is determined to wipe out the zombie
menace, but she's soon distracted by the arrival of the haughty and arrogant Mr.
Darcy. What ensues is a delightful comedy of manners with plenty of civilized
sparring between the two young lovers—and even more violent sparring on the
blood-soaked battlefield as Elizabeth wages war against hordes of flesh-eating
undead. Can she vanquish the spawn of Satan? And overcome the social prejudices
of the class-conscious landed gentry? Complete with romance, heartbreak,
swordfights, cannibalism, and thousands of rotting corpses, Pride and Prejudice
and Zombies transforms a masterpiece of world literature into something you'd
actually want to read.

Heh.