If you follow Heavy Metal, you probably know that Black Sabbath gave its final concert on 5 July 2025 in Birmingham, where they got started. Ozzy Osbourne passed away from a heart attack on 22 July 2025.
Iommi also appears on two tracks of Osbourne's last album, Patient Number 9, which came out in 2022.
On the upcoming album Iommi is joined by Norwegian vocalist Jorn Lande, Mercyful Fate bassist Becky Baldwin, and English drummer Karl Brazil. I have not seen anything about a tour, but given that Tony Iommi is 78 years old, there may not be much in the way of a tour.
This song is "World Alone" by Tony Iommi. It was released on July 29th as part of the announcement of his upcoming album, From the Dark. There is, of course, an official video; I find it very distracting, the way I find most official videos. It is easy enough to find if you're interested.
They don't say why this guy was raging, but it is usually some perceived slight. "You cut me off," or something equally inane.
A Dodge Journey followed closely behind, at times less than a foot away, witnesses said.
When both vehicles came to a stop in a construction zone in western Hancock County, prosecutors said the Dodge driver exited his vehicle and aggressively confronted the Volkswagen's occupants, threatening bodily harm.
He didn't even stop being an idiot, when the driver of the Volkswagen got out with a gun, and told him to get back in his car.
The Dodge driver continued advancing and was shot multiple times. He retreated to his vehicle, where he later died.
There was a witness who gave a lot of info to the police. This is the key statement.
The witness also told police, “If I was put in that predicament, if I was the guy in the Volkswagen, I would have been scared for my life.”
Hancock County, Indiana, is in the Indianapolis metropolitan area. The county like is roughly 10 miles east of downtown Indianapolis.
Considering that this incident took place on July 21st, we have another district attorney making a determination at warp speed. (Hat tip to US Carry)
Given how incredibly rare it is for the New York Times to give positive news coverage to a civilian who stopped a mass public shooting (and these occur all the time without getting news coverage), you have to give them credit when they do cover such a story.
A pro-gun/pro-gunowner story in the NYT... Surely this is a sign of the End Times. Or something. Maybe Hell has frozen over.
Pro-Second Amendment organizations and individual plaintiffs originally filed the suit in December 2023, accusing California jurisdictions of charging excessive fees and being dilatory in processing applications for carry permits. The group celebrated the settlement with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) in a Thursday release.
The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) was the organization that made the announcement.
Other plaintiffs in the case included Gun Owners of America (GOA), Gun Owners Foundation, seven individuals and the California Rifle and Pistol Association (CRPA).
The settlement addresses exorbitant fees, length of time spent processing applications, and the creation of a non-resident permitting scheme.
She Hulk was a disaster of a Disney+ show produced by Marvel back in 2022. It is too bad really. Somewhere around here I have a framed, reproduction cover of the The Savage She-Hulk, from 1979. (See the image below.) It isn't the best comic ever. It was created because at the time it was commissioned, The Hulk TV show was going, and The Bionic Woman had been launched, a female version of The Six-Million Dollar Man, and it was doing quite well. Marvel wanted to get to the copyright of a female Hulk before the network did.
The 1989-1994 run by John Byrne is the version everyone loves. She Hulk was mostly a member of the Avengers and The Fantastic Four during this era, though she did have at least one solo comic. This is the era when She Hulk began breaking the 4th wall.
I also like the early 2000s run starting with Single Green Female. Well, I like the art. I only read that online by way of my local library, so I may be misremembering how it was. I don't remember much about the story.‡ The image to the left is from that era.
I'm not sure if Single Green Female, from the early 2000s, is better or worse.
I was living on a boat in 2004, when Single Green Female was published. Comics were contraindicated by the humidity and the lack of space for collecting.
Her origin was that she was Bruce Banner's cousin. When she was critically wounded in an assassination attempt, he saved her with a blood transfusion, but she became She Hulk as a result, with a milder version of his condition. That origin is not allowed by Disney-Marvel. A man save a woman? We couldn't have that in 2022.
With all of that, the videos/posts making the rounds are about the disasterous Disney-Marvel TV show. And it was a disaster, though Disney thought it did well enough.
Then this X post, came up on Friday Night Tights. (That is an excerpt from the full FNT episode, just dealing with Marvel.) The bit dealing with the She Hulk show, starts at 9 minutes and 50 seconds into that excerpt. I don't have it queued up, because I like the whole thing.
The head writer and showrunner of “She-Hulk” was Jessica Gao. She was best known for being the credited writer on the “Pickle Rick” episode of “Rick and Morty.”
During the production of that episode, “Rick and Morty” showrunner Dan Harmon cast Susan Sarandon as the family’s… https://t.co/zNn8s73b4u
‡ I have strange tastes in comics, just like I have strange taste in music. In addition to liking some She Hulk that others don't, I also like The New 52 introduction of Batwoman, which most people hate. I thought the art was good, and the first story was OK, but it was Woke, and the 2nd and 3rd story arcs were not so good. (Batwoman in The New 52 was a lesbian kicked out of the military under "Don't Ask, Don't Tell," who went on to train with mercenaries. She was NOT Bruce Wayne's cousin.
While most people (except for the members of Bauhaus) consider the song "Bela Lugosi's Dead" to be the first Gothic Rock record, it didn't appear out of nowhere. And for whatever reason, Bauhaus always denied being Goth. The band described their style as "dark glam." Instead, they referenced other bands, specifically Siouxsie and the Banshees, as the pioneers of Goth.
I found this video a long time ago, during the dark ages of the 2020 lockdown. It has been in my drafts for that long. I was going to delete the post, but listening to the video again, I decided it is worth sharing. Some of you out there may be fans of Punk, and a fair number are probably fans of Post Punk (or New Wave, as suits insist on calling it). Goth is sort of Post-Post Punk, though there are several genres that can claim that title.
The video starts with Screamin' Jay Hawkins and "I Put a Spell on You." I prefer Nina Simone's 1965 cover of this song, and I will feature this version eventually. You might be familiar with the Creedence Clearwater Revival cover of the song.
Then it goes on to The Doors, who were the first band to be called Gothic Rock in a newspaper article. The song "The End" has a lot of the hallmarks of Goth. Dark lyrics being what I consider the cornerstone.
The Velvet Underground is often credited with starting a lot of things, everything from Punk to New Wave, Shoegaze and Goth. And of course launching the career of the singer Nico.
Nico of course left The Velvet Underground. Her first solo album was warped by the label into something she hated. The Marble Index, her 2nd album, was a rejection of the Pop sensibility of that 1st album. She died her hair red, and wore all, or mostly, black. This gives her a good claim on the title of the first Goth girl.
Alice Cooper is next with his odd lyrics, and stage antics, and makeup. His stage show was especially dark in the early years.
One of the things that most people miss, is the influence of Glam Rock, as an inspiration to Goth. You can see it in the makeup of Bowie, and in the song "In Every Dreamhome a Heartache" by Roxy Music.
While it's generally assumed that goth evolved from Punk, the dark-hued tendencies The Damned and Siouxsie and The Banshees bridging the gap, Glam Rock is where Goth's influence started in earnest.
Aesthetically, there's a short space between the two genres with Glam's sexual ambiguity, attraction to eyeliner and pale foundation, and the exaggerated clothing choices mirroring those of gothic culture. Sure, T. Rex, Roxy Music and David Bowie were more into glitter than their gloomy siblings ever would be, but there's a reason why all the key British Goth bands list at least one of them as a key influence.
Brian Eno gets a mention, because of the work he did after leaving Roxy Music.
Punk. There are a couple of bands mentioned, I doubt you've heard of them, unless you're into Punk.
Post Punk. Siouxsie and The Banshees and the Cure were two bands that moved into Goth, eventually. And Joy Division.
Finally we get to Bauhaus, and their 1979 single "Bela Lugosi's Dead."
According to Lighthouse Point police, two dogs got loose after escaping a fenced-in yard and began to roam through the neighborhood.
While in the area, police said they encountered a much smaller dog on the front porch of a home
One of the two dogs grabbed the small dog.
A family friend identified as Joe described the attack as "vicious," stating that the dog "grabbed onto the puppy... and shook it." He said the owner was forced to shoot the dog after other efforts to stop the attack failed.
The other dog fled, and then attacked a person nearby, biting that person on the leg.
Lighthouse Point, Florida, is about 10 miles north of Fort Lauderdale.
The owner of the large dogs eventually secured the other dog. As I type this, the incident is under investigation.
While I am not a lawyer, it is my understanding that you can defend your animals against other animals.
The title to this article is Blackstone’s Ratio, quoted from his seminal work: “Commentaries on the Laws of England”.
John Adams, Founding Father and second President of the United States, expounded further on Blackstone’s Ratio.
Flock cameras treat everyone as guilty. The surveillence state, once established, will find more ways to "punish the guilty," and more things for you to be guilty of.
A deputy sheriff in Bugscuffle County, Texas is able to look for a license plate registered to Los Angeles, California; or New York City, New York; or Toadstomp, Montana — with no Constitutional protections for the owners of that plate whatsoever.
There are — as one might imagine — multiple issues here, not the least of which is that there are no active audits being run. Since a search warrant is not required, LEOs are getting caught running searches for license plates using “Test”, “Training”, and the always popular generic “Investigation” — if they even input a reason. Several officers didn’t either bother entering a reason for the search.
Is anyone shocked that cops are using Flock to stalk people, their ex-partners, their girlfriends/wives, people that they are interested in romantically.
Click thru for the "If you've got nothing to hide..." argument, and how it falls apart.
In a recent post about my revamped Sociology of Guns seminar, I discussed moving from a topic-based approach to a question-based approach to the material. I connected this shift to the increasing importance of intellectual virtues like curiosity, open-mindedness, and humility as learning outcomes for the course, but I didn’t fully explain the reasoning behind it.
Briefly: questions open up inquiry and conversation in ways topics do not. A topic like “gun violence” or “concealed carry” can be covered and closed. A question keeps going. As Peter Berger put it in Invitation to Sociology, the first wisdom of sociology is that “things are not what they seem.”
Nan-in, a Japanese master during the Meiji era (1868-1912), received a university professor who came to inquire about Zen.
Nan-in served tea. He poured his visitor’s cup full, and then kept on pouring.
The professor watched the overflow until he no longer could restrain himself. “It is overfull. No more will go in!”
“Like this cup,” Nan-in said, “you are full of your own opinions and speculations. How can I show you Zen unless you first empty your cup?”
One of the major problems with the world we live in today, is that everyone is so sure of what is true, or they have abandoned the idea of objective truth completely, in favor of personal feelings. Not sure how you do inquiry in the face of that. (If you know the acceptable answer, before you do the study, why bother to do the study?)
There are more details about the class, a photo of a very-nice AR, and another of some snacks, that made me hungry for dessert. Click thru.
Professor Yamane, with the approval of his students, has posted some of those students work from the past seminars. They have been fascinating reads. I look forward to seeing what this year will bring.
Memory is now selling at prices last seen in 2007. (Tom's Hardware)
Though the memory price crash of 2007 was one of the reasons why there are only three big memory manufacturers today.
Controversial Twitch streamer Hasan Piker is calling on Democrats to ensure that those who do not support Michigan Democratic Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed face consequences for not holding the party line.
Ace Stop Me If You Heard This One Before, Redux: "Deal" to Open the Strait of Hormuz "Imminent"? Supposedly. Scott Bessent and Marco Rubio say a deal is imminent-adjacent. Hot Air quotes Reuters. This doesn't sound like a bona fide deal to me.
Conman Carney’s Canada: Liberal townhomes. Moderate Muslim. Day of hating Jews. Carney’s Ontario.
Stories You Won’t Find At Carney’s CBC: Truth not credentials. Illegal logging for wind turbines.
The Netherlands has decided to include children under 12 on their kill list.
This isn’t the first case of killing kids under 12 since infanticide has been legal for a while there.
The tide turns for a Florida darling and California loser
The argument is that Miami has become too successful and has become less affordable. Seriously. Last I checked Miami still doesn’t need poop maps.
1. The mosque in Regina Sask. will now start to play the call to Prayer. No idea from this news report how often or how loud. But we know for a fact this is an incremental jihad. It will end with 5X a day and as loud as they can.
Federal Court Strikes Down NFA Registration Requirements for Suppressors, Short-Barreled Rifles, and Short-Barreled Shotguns in NRA Case. Court holds that since the registration fee was dropped to zero in the One Big Beautiful Bill, the law is no longer justified as aa tax
Investigators determined a physical altercation took place before the shooting occurred.
During the altercation, the other individual discharged a firearm in self-defense, striking Blood, officials said.
This is the 2nd incident in Huntsville that I've covered in the past month. I had to check, twice, to be sure this was a second incident. It is also the second time in about a month, that the District Attorney's Office for Madison County, Alabama, has moved at warp speed in the determination of self defense.
Robert L. Broussard currently holds the office of Madison County District Attorney. Hats off to you sir. Some prosecuting attorneys wait months to make such a determination, even in the face of video evidence. Why? Because too many DAs hate self-defense.
Self-defense is a human right, and at least in Huntsville, and likely the rest of Alabama, it is your legal right.
All eight license plate readers operated by the Winona Police Department disappeared sometime between July 29 and Aug. 1, according to police. Officers discovered the thefts after one noticed that the system had not recorded any recent activity.
The poles were cut, and the cameras stolen.
At least five devices were stolen and another was damaged in Duluth during June and July. In Plymouth, one was found in pieces beneath its pole, while another had its power cord cut. Similar incidents have also been reported in Edina, Eden Prairie, Minnetonka, and Anoka County.
Here is what the Wiki has to say (always a suspect source) about today's song.
The song uses leitmotifs that were first used on the soundtrack for the original Lethal Weapon film, released five years earlier. It was released as a single and on the Lethal Weapon 3 movie soundtrack. It also appears on the Fields of Gold: The Best of Sting 1984-1994 international edition compilation album
This song is "It's Probably Me" by Sting, featuring Eric Clapton, Michael Kamen, and David Sanborn. It is from the Soundtrack to the movie Lethal Weapon 3. I don't remember anything about that movie, except that it was better than 2.
You marry a Hispanic girl, you get the whole family included in the price plus as extra-bonus, 3 dozen cousins, all the godparents and even the bodega owner whose known your wife since she was in cloth diapers.
I continue to try to find time to work on my Gun Culture 2.0 book. Even though I have written a lot about the topic over the years, it still takes a long time and a great deal of effort to bring those ideas together into a coherent package.
One of the problems with American politics is how the two-party system tends to foster a Manichean duality on every issue. The Democrat “borg” (which includes media and academia) pushes whatever its policy agenda may be at any moment, and demonizes anyone who dissents.
Do you think that the would-be, bad guy didn't expect to encounter armed resistance in this blue state?
An Upstate New York homeowner shot and killed an apparent intruder who broke into his residence early Monday morning, according to police.
Rochester police responded to the scene on Avery Street at approximately 4:30 a.m. on Monday after a neighbor reported hearing gunshots.
If you come, uninvited, to my house at 4:30 in the morning, you will find me in a really vile mood.
Rochester Police Capt. Frank Umbrino told reporters that the shooting appears to be justified as the resident used a legally registered handgun and possesses a valid New York state pistol permit, according to WHEC.
Rochester is on Lake Ontario. It about halfway between Syracuse and Buffalo, or it is roughly a 70 mile drive east of Buffalo.
Self-defense is a human right, and it might be your legal right in the State of New York, depending on where you find yourself in the state.
Spoiler Alert: They won't get real. And another Spoiler Alert: If Democrats take over in Washington, they will bail out Chicago, which means you will be paying for their bad behavior.
A number of financial people have left Mayor Brandon Johnson's administration in the Windy City. It is almost like they get familiar with the books, and head for the exit. Almost.
With the most recent announcement of the budget director leaving, here’s the list I’ve got, in chronological order:
Dec 2024, City Comptroller Chasse Rehwinkel
Jan 2026, CFO Jill Jaworski
June/July 2026 – Noor Shaikh, Deputy Chief Financial Officer
Aug 2026, Acting CFO Steven Mahr
Aug 2026, Budget Director Annette Guzman
Meep didn't count the people who left when Johnson was first elected. It is common for people to leave when an administration ends. She also didn't include the HR director, who also left.
Even back in the age of absolute monarchs, bad finance was enough to undermine power. That was what cut down kings time and again
Click thru for the state of the budget, Chicago Public Schools, and their issues, and a bit on the State of Illinois. They are all nearly bankrupt, and refusing to admit it.
Tumblr, the origins of GamerGate, the SJWs of 2014 were going on, and all the rest. This was before Andrew Tate, and a lot of household names, and common insults. Shoe0nHead was already pissed off about the insanity. It hasn't gotten better.
The Warner Robins Police Department said an overnight shooting on Ignico Drive that left an 18-year-old dead appeared to be in self-defense.
They don't say why the confrontation happened, but the shooter remained at the scene and is cooperating with the investigation.
Warner Robins, Georgia, is about a 20 mile drive south of Macon, or about a 100 mile drive south of Atlanta.
The article spends quite a bit of space on a line of thinking that basically boils down to "Neighbors were shocked."
The shooting has some longtime residents worried about what they see as a rise in violence.
"Some." Exactly why do the Professional Journalists™ believe that covering the feelings of a few people mean anything in relation to a story like this? "Some People" feel one way. "Some People" feel differently. What does that mean? Why are feelings important?
This story is from Canada, but similar things have happened in America.
A teen hiking group trusted Google Maps on a B.C. alpine trail. It ended in a helicopter rescue.
I don't know what the Canadian equivalent of a US Geological Survey Topographical Map might be, but I am sure they exist. If you're in Canada you should invest in some. If you're in the US use USGS Topo map. Not Google Maps, not Apple Maps, not Open Maps. A mapping system that understands topographical detail. And you might want to check on where flash flooding is an issue if you're in the US Southwest.
When a group of teenagers set out to hike British Columbia’s famed Howe Sound Crest Trail in early July, Google Maps suggested the trek would take about five hours.
Instead, the hike stretched deep into the night, leaving the group exhausted, dehydrated, injured and in need of a helicopter rescue.
This is the part where relying on Google Maps (just because you found it on the internet, doesn't mean it is true) which isn't really a good source.
The Howe Sound Crest Trail is one of British Columbia’s most iconic alpine trails, following a rugged ridgeline overlooking Howe Sound just north of Vancouver. Although the approximately 18-mile route with a 6,000-foot elevation gain can be completed by experienced trail runners in a day, search and rescue officials generally recommend hikers treat it as a two-day backpacking trip.
Click thru for the rest of the details. (Hat tip to Pixy Misa at Ambient Irony) Was this a Darwin Award near miss? Maybe not.
The last time I read a story like this, was in March of last year. Darwin Award Near Miss Times 2. Two groups, making the same mistake, in the same place in Utah, in January and February of 2025.
You can download USGS Topographical Maps online for free. If you want paper maps, there is a cost, which I have not been able to pin down. (It varies by map.) I doubt the cost of paper maps is prohibitive. Paper is always a good backup, since you don't need power, battery, internet, anything except light. But you can certainly do planning while connected to the internet.
