The Grim Meathead Future  

Jamais at Open The Future gets the award for best post title of the day with a look at the revival of the militia-types now a Democrat is back in charge - Grim Meathead Future. I haven't checked out the crankier type of tinfoil site for a while but I guess they'll be pretty worked up by now...

So with the (welcome) return of a Democrat to the White House, we get the (not so welcome) return of militia loons. This time around, the right wing gun clubs seem to be organizing around something called "Molon labe" (usually written in the Greek, "Μολών Λaβέ"). It means "Come and get them!", generally interpreted as "over my dead body," and comes from the supposed response of the Spartans to Persia's demand that they surrender their weapons. These guys are organizing and buying up weapons in fear that Obama's going to take their guns away (pure fantasy on their part, of course -- President O has much bigger issues to wrestle with).

The last time we had this kind of thing, we got bombings of the Olympics and federal buildings, deadly attacks on doctors and radio commentators, and myriad attempts to intimidate government officials.

This time around, we have the Iraqi resistance as a model for really engaging in some "system disruption."

Oh, goody.