I have long suspected that I'm not very civilized

Looking at the UN rape reporting statistics today (because of yet another highly publicized crime against a woman in India this week), I pondered.

Mike: "What's wrong? You look upset."

Me: "I'm trying to decide...if I were raped, would I kill my attacker some time after that?"

[Pause.]

Me: "Yes. Yes, I would."

Mike: "You could just [insert general damaging here] him."

Me: "No. Never leave your enemy alive but damaged." [James Bond taught me *that*.] "I'd just kill him."

Yep, that's about right

Via Reddit:

Space: The Twitter Frontier

Chris Hadfield is a very spiffy guy. If the name's not familiar to you, he's a Canadian astronaut currently on the ISS, and he's been on Twitter tweeting up a storm.

Before Col. Hadfield left for the ISS, his son convinced him to do an "AMA" (Ask Me Anything) on the social news and entertainment aggregator, Reddit. It's very educational and amusing, and I followed it "live" at the time.

More recently, Hadfield has been firing the imagination of social media: first on Twitter with William Shatner, then with George Takei posting the tweets to Facebook, and finally (after quipping that all he needed was Spock for an "away team") a tweet exchange with Leonard Nimoy.

Buzz Aldrin sent him this tweet.

And today, Col. Hadfield noted that maybe his Canadian red shirt was kind of dangerous. Heh.