What I like about the readers of IMAO is that you are intellectuals who always get to the heart of the manner. When I posted about railguns, many of you were concerned there won’t be a boom when they are fired.

Now, early projectile weaponry — the bow and the crossbow — were relatively quiet. Then came gunpowder and now we’re used to a loud sound announcing death. Many would say this loud sound is tactically problematic, to which others answer, “But it’s awesome.”

And that is true.

A railgun uses no explosives and simply uses magnetism to fire a projectile. You might think this would be quiet, but we’re dealing with the projectile moving so fast that it gets both a boom and fire for just being so awesome.

So embrace the future, my friends.

Also, some of you wondered about putting railguns on a dinosaur. This won’t work. Dinosaurs don’t like magnets. They make them crazy.

Well, a podcast involving someone who sometimes appears on IMAO. SarahK was interviewed by Melissa Clouthier and talked about Twilight and Sarah Palin. John Hawkins also showed up allowing SarahK to personally grill him about not voting for her in the t-shirt babe contest. And she’s a lot better on the radio than I am, but if you ever listened to our podcasts you already knew that.

Incidentally, in addition to Twits.ws, SarahK is also running John Hawkins’s Viral Footage site. Maybe I can get her to post here again… or do another podcast.

Don’t know if you’ve seen Andrew Sullivan announce his hiatus, but it’s a masterpiece of crazy. If he’s completely earnest in it, then… wow. It’s easy to make fun of Sullivan, but it’s also easy to make fun of a schizophrenic though that’s not a particularly nice thing to do. At what point, though, does The Atlantic have to answer for why it displays a blatant crazy person to be gawked at a bit. They might as well charge a nickel a gander for Sullivan’s blog.

I don’t know how many of you remember the Limey. In my experience, who you come back at a troll in a clever way, they tend to regroup a bit and be a little bit more reserved in the response. But every once in a while you get one who keeps doubling down on the stupid. This rare creature was found once again in the comments to my latest Pajamas Media column.

The fifteenth comment is from someone named anonymous who starts by quoting the first line of the article “Is it just me, or is Barack Obama not the most experienced person we’ve ever had as president?”:

Well, considering Tapper’s article described it in these terms:

“Obama’s handshake/forward lurch was so jarring and inappropriate it recalls Bush’s back-rub of Merkel.

The answer would seem to be no. You’re welcome.

Usual reflexive “me no like boooosh” response, but I decided to point out the blatantly stupid part of it:

Since Bush rubbed someone’s back, Obama is the most experienced president we’ve ever had? You smirt!

I can see why you remain Anonymous; otherwise the FBI would be constantly at your door trying to get you to figure out all their unsolved cases.

Now, I expected him to come back and admit he misread the sentence but then attack the premise from another angle. But this was no average troll. Instead, “moho” takes credit for the comment and keeps trying to show how he smirt by misusing lots of $5 words and explaining how my sentence meant something else than what it said. No matter how I batted him around, he kept coming back more determined and more obtuse. Check it out; it’s funny when it’s not sad.

I really would like to see a study on these people one day to find out what makes them tick. It’s easy to assume they’re all kids, but I don’t think that’s necessarily true.

Everyone predicting the NYC 9/11 trial is going to be a huge fiasco are going to look silly when it’s only a minor fiasco.

V will go a different direction next year with the aliens going moose-hunting and constantly saying, “You betcha!” Different parallel?

I think Obama would be more impressive if he wore a cape.

Anyone ever going to do a full psychological study on internet trolls? I think many people would gladly donate funding.

I have an idea for a movie where pirates learn to look just like us and blend into society and pirate us from the inside.

Will our show trial of KSM be enough to convince the world we’re a democracy or do we also need a sham election?

So is there going to be an investigation into whether our troops are getting really crappy psychological care? It seems like odds are there are plenty of crappy psychologists in the military who aren’t exposing themselves by committing mass murder.