Hello and Welcome.

This is my first post to "Captain Murphy's Godson." Welcome to my new readers.
I will use this space to post my thoughts and opinions (I've got lots of those) and hope to stir up some good discussions.
I intend to range over everything from politics to movies to everyday life. I expect to piss a few people off along the way.
For a first post, it's appropriate that I talk about the little-known history behind Murphy's Law.
Starting in the late 1940s, an Air Force doctor by the name of John Paul Stapp began experiments with rocket sleds to design safety equipment. In addition to pioneering the use of instrumented dummies, Doctor Stapp would ride the rocket sled himself, taking more G-forces voluntarily than any human before or since. The Air Force sent an engineering officer, Captain Edward Murphy, from Wright-Patterson AFB to help out. Captain Murphy brought some strain gauges that had been assembled by his team. Murphy and Stapp set them up on the rocket sled and ran a day's worth of tests. To their surprise, they got no readings at all. When Murphy took the gauges apart he saw they had been wired up exactly backwards. He said... well, no one knows exactly what he said, but it was something like, "That guy/those guys. If there's a right way and a wrong way to do it, he/they'll always pick the wrong one." Stapp reported it at a press conference and after floating around the engineering and science world, it eventually settled down as the Murphy's Law we all know and love. Murphy was deeply unhappy over the whole thing - a military officer takes the public blame for those under his command, a major point of military ethics. For the rest of his life he would bitterly deny having said what was attributed to him, a perfect example of how if something can go the wrong way, it will. He went on to complete a distinguished career in the aerospace industry. John Paul Stapp went on to further glory with the Air Force and pushed hard for the first automobile seatbelt law.
So that's how Murphy's Law got its start.
It's been a perfect metaphor for my life, and I intend to discuss this in future posts.