Author Archives: Joel

…oh, wait. Are there any Visigoths left? This sounded so silly, and the source from which I saw it this morning is so sketchy, that I spent a few minutes following rabbit holes to see if I could find a … Continue reading →

Once upon a time, way back when I was a real person, I had a 35mm camera body and a bunch of half-decent lenses and a casual, half-assed desire to learn landscape photography. This was way before digital photography meant … Continue reading →

Oh, no. Oh, God, I’ve stumbled into the next target for my daily political 2-minute hate sessions. I KEEP SAYING I’M GOING TO STOP DOING THIS! But… I suppose it was inevitable. The newest endless prez campaign has begun – … Continue reading →

And it’s getting worse by the hour: When the wind gets this way there are disadvantages to being downwind of all that sand. So I’m probably going to go visit the chickens one last time and then spend the afternoon … Continue reading →

“Mind your language.” Yes, it’s that time of year again. That time that all Ruger Mark Whatever owners dread more than being invited by your wife to go see a screening of Dead Poet’s Society. It’s absolutely time to stop … Continue reading →

Okay, so my sick girl was still alive this morning, but still obviously very sick. I’m surprised she hung on as long as she did, because normally when a hen puts her face to the wall she’s dead within a … Continue reading →

…but I didn’t promise to stop entirely. Bullets vs. belly laughs, you know…

One of the RIRs is dying, and if she made it through the night I have to finish her off this morning. So I have that to look forward to. And while that’s not really funny in any way, I … Continue reading →

Yup, it has been in the seventies for three straight days. Yesterday it brushed 80o briefly! And you know what that means, boys and girls… That’s right! The pear tree, the single survivor of our five-year-ago experiment in fruit trees, … Continue reading →

h/t to EP.

It’s like divine retribution or something, it’s so virulently contagious. Jacinda Ardern goes into a bathhouse with Justin Trudeau for just a few minutes and the next thing you know a bunch of Canadians who never hurt anybody are being … Continue reading →

h/t to Wendy

A couple of antler-less bulls… And a putty tat!

Your Patreon bucks at work. 100# cracked corn, 50# layer pellets. 15 gallons gasoline, 14 gallons propane, 9 gallons drinking water. And a frozen pizza. No bourbon. Wouldn’t have fit in the Jeep. 🙂

“This is what real action to stop gun violence looks like!” gushed ol’ Bernie as a foreign head of state apparently banned all further gun violence with a wave of her majestic scepter. Bernie thought that was a fine idea, … Continue reading →

Landlady came up yesterday evening, and to my surprise announced that she had care packages! I wasn’t expecting anything at all, since the two packages I knew about missed the deadline. By hours, because Uncle Murphy is a dick. Won’t … Continue reading →

Last year Big Brother bought me a reconditioned MacBook Air. It is … I believe it’s the fourth laptop computer I’ve owned in the past fifteen years or so and the closest to a new one I’ve ever owned. Laptops … Continue reading →

Yeah, I know “take on the NRA” is just worship-words for the rubes. Hell, you do too – you probably have drinks with your local NRA lobbyist after “work,” don’t you? But forget the NRA. It’s the gunowners you have … Continue reading →

Oh! Yeah, baby… I confess to my shame that I was never any good at all at long-range precision shooting – I’ve had a couple of rifles that were more competent than I ever was but never found access to … Continue reading →