Heavy Metal Sunday has seen plenty of change in 20 years.

Wednesday marks my 20th wedding anniversary. After seeing that my first choice for today had been taken down, I asked the decorative and functional kshandra to name her favorite metal song as I was poking around for something released close to our wedding date. After establishing that I had in fact run Queensryche's Jet City Woman, she asked if I minded a power ballad. Of course not! She selected The Scorpions - Wind of Change.

OK then! I find a fantastic version off the Moment of Glory album, recorded live with the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2000. We enjoy the video together, then I get down to the business of searching out album details and links. What do I find on the Wiki page for Wind of Change? Released April 5 1991. Almost exactly one month before our wedding.

My Kiri rocks. In many ways. Love my Boo!

Now get out your Zippos for Wind of Change

Bonus video link: Slipknot vs. Nyan Cat. Roll for SAN loss.

GET SOME!

So we took down Osama. In person. JSOC troops put lead downrange and blew that waste of carbon away. I said long ago that my fondest wish was that the last thing bin Laden saw in this world was a grinning US solider. Sometimes dreams come true.

Best part? We've got the body. Early reports are it will de disposed of secretly, to keep his burial site from becoming a rallying point. Which means he's not getting the traditional Islamic burial rituals done.

What's really interesting is the news that he was living in a mansion in Pakistan's capital. Time for us to really lean on that nation and their dodgy intelligence service. Hard.

This is like us killing Yamamoto during WWII. It didn't end the war, but it deprived the enemy of a master strategist and a powerful symbol. This does the same thing.

The absolutely best part about today? Watching the wingnuts tear themselves to shreds trying to attack Obama over this.