I’ve Seen A Lot Of Russian Dashcam Videos

I’ve Seen A Lot Of Russian Dashcam Videos


Can’t get enough of them. They make “Reality TV” look like an oil painting. Every day, all day, the Russian roadways are Ben Hur and Mad Max rolled up in one. Or, more to the point, rolled over into one. But until I saw this one, I never realized why they all drive like blind drunken mental patients: Russians are indestructible.

Go ahead; try to break one. Other Russians, who are also indestructible, apparently, take their best shots with dump trucks and semi trailers and econoboxes alike. What chance would a normal human have against a Russian? None.

Here’s To You, Mr. Help An Atlantic Right Whale Out

Here’s To You, Mr. Help An Atlantic Right Whale Out

(Click anywhere on the text to see the embedded video, then click on the start button. There’s no thumbnail because it’s hosted on Vimeo, and Vimeo sucks) 

Two sport fishermen were out on the ocean, and spotted an Atlantic right whale cruising by, all tangled up in a rope. Right whales aren’t hunted any more, but there aren’t many of them around, and they still are in danger of being killed by boats hitting them, and entanglements like this one. Eventually the rope would probably cut right through their flesh. Adrian and Pat to the rescue!

No one would admit it, but it’s the same sort of person that helps a distressed animal in this fashion as the fellows that used to hunt them. They’re both a bit daring, and both knew and respected the animal, and valued it for its worth. It used to be worth a lot to a person to have its blubber and oil and ambergris and corset stays, and now it’s worth more to make our world that much more interesting by its very existence. People complaining outside a KFC never met a chicken, in my experience.

Army Men!

Army Men!


In our mind’s eye, it was always like this. We’d mouth the pew pew sounds and cries of happy agony as the little green fellows fell over. We’d advance and retreat over the carpeted ground, or perhaps over the hardwood steppes. Snipers using rubber bands would take out the unwary lieutenant, always motioning: Onward!

Army Men!