After a draining practice session, Alonzo Mourning and half of the Nets team, mostly second-unit players, were making their way through the final strides of a set of suicide drills, punishment for losing a contest to the rest of the team Thursday at the Champion Center, the team's practice facility.
It's majestic punishment, thanks especially to the pneumatic-drill drumming of Daniel Williams and the flamboyant guitar work of Chris Rubey and Jeremy DePoyster, both fluent in the legacy of outrageously attitude-laden, outrageously technical metal.
Punishments included solitary confinement or "shot drill", where an inmate was made to carry 24 pound cannonballs from one end of the yard to the other.
These can be mastered only through relentless drilling reinforced, George Orwell said, by corporal punishment.
He also warned that in response to any provocation from the North, Seoul would "immediately" turn the US-South Korean military drills currently being conducted "into a punishment mode to respond to it as planned".
I heard one guy at the dining table yelling continuously as punishment, "Do not walk and chew, do not disrespect drill sergeants, do not lick your fingers with barbeque sauce!" over and over again, and the drill sergeants were all laughing at him.
To threaten "severest punishment": North Korea, responding to the latest round of military drills involving eighty-sex thousand U.S. and South Korean troops.
One can almost wonder whether it is a punishment to the Ogoni people because they are not allowing oil drilling by Shell," Wiwa said.
I'm not exactly a handy guy, but I've used a drill enough to realize that bits that can endure the kind of punishment these were facing are something special.
It has now been drilled into the dog's very being that crossing that line will receive some punishment whether it is true in reality or not anymore.
