How Orwellian : "free-expression laws"

The NYTimes describes German censorship laws that place limits on free speech :

"Twitter employees are not combing through the hundreds of millions of messages posted each day searching for offensive material, but are responding only to government requests, beholden to free-expression laws in the countries in which it operates."

Do you ever feel like you're a Cylon?

nearly plagiarism

Supposedly, an Assyrian Battering Ram

A Dalek … or is it an Assyrian battering ram?

barely related :

BozoVision

A still showing a production monitor labeled "BozoVision" in Marvel Productions Ltd (the Marvel animation studio) as seen at about the 58th minute in the movie "With Great Power... The Stan Lee Story" (2010).

The Ibsen Look

Notice the similarity in extravagant facial hair?

X-Men's Wolverine as drawn by John Byrne c.2006

playwright Henrik Ibsen c.1870

From now on I'll refer to this as the "Ibsen Look"

Are guns phallic symbols?

click to embiggen (that doesn't look phallic to me)
(image found here)

Markley's Law : … [a] variant of Godwin's Law: As an online discussion of gun owners' rights grows longer, the probability of an ad hominem attack involving penis size approaches 1.

I think the proponents of Markley's Law need to reevaluate their basic premise. Are guns even phallic? Like a woman, you cannot ignore a gun for a long time and then expect it to be cooperative. It is always good to take the time to keep a gun well lubricated.  If one plays with the trigger correctly you'll notice the gun becomes hot. Phallic shaped bullets are squeezed tightly into a gun's barrel. Guns can be simultaneously very tough but also fragile. Guns, like women, can be very, very loud. 

Nonetheless, I am working tirelessly to invent a gun that has a labia as I know that the Markley's Law types would immediately embrace such a clearly non-phallic gun and not merely shift their criticism to some other stupid argument.

To be fair, I will admit that "Mannlicher" can sound pretty gay.


Update (2013-02-28) : Another view.