Author Archives: Joel

Seriously. In a bloodless civil war that will probably be over by 2020. Stop laughing! This guy’s a tech corp CEO and everything, so he must be smart! The Great Lesson of California in America’s New Civil War In the … Continue reading →

I’m guessing it’s a price you pay for an email address the Internet interprets as commercial. When I used a freebie Yahoo address like 400 brazillion other faceless users, I never had this problem. Sigh. Five new messages, and I’d … Continue reading →

Basics of Resistance, by Claire Wolfe and Kit Perez, is exactly what the title promises – a primer on organization and operation in a (we’d like to think theoretical and future) time when the world has goosestepped past Claire’s earlier … Continue reading →

Okay: For the benefit of anybody wandering in for the first time, I drive a Jeep but never into town, and I live way the HELL back in the high desert. I have to haul gasoline to the Jeep from … Continue reading →

It was good enough for my rhetoric master, and by Enki it’s good enough for me. This computer stuff was a big mistake. Okay: I learn to my surprise this morning that I’m suddenly able to connect just fine. Maybe … Continue reading →

For some reason my laptop has suddenly decided it doesn’t like to be connected to the hotspot, and I can’t figure out how to convince it to change its mind. I’m very slowly pecking this post out on the smartphone, … Continue reading →

It wasn’t doing me any good where it was anyway. I need to put in a fencepost to mount it on before I can effectively use the game camera to monitor ‘yote activity in the approach to my yard from … Continue reading →

“So what’s zuckschumer.com?” I wondered? Heh. #ZuckSchumer represents the combined power of big tech monopolies like Facebook and Google that spy on our every move online. They sell our most private data to political targeting and advertising companies and to … Continue reading →

Got a review copy of Claire Wolfe’s and Kit Perez’s Basics of Resistance, which I was eager to read and also now sort of obligated to read right now. Got through the first third of it yesterday evening, with notes, … Continue reading →

This looks like it might be fun to watch and maybe ought to be spread around if it isn’t already. WATCH: Black Gun Owner’s Epic Rant Against The Government Goes Viral”When are you all gonna start standing up for the … Continue reading →

Sometimes I get tracks and scat at the fringes of the yard near the wash that suggest coyotes are not being as respectful of my territory as I’d prefer. Set up the game camera a few days ago hoping to … Continue reading →

The reading chair a neighbor gave me for the new bedroom is quite low. I needed a book table, but a conventional side table wouldn’t do. Ian and I found this plant stand in a local thrift store…

Grass is …um… never mind. Wow. Dry winter. Dry spring, so far. I’d worry for the cattle, if I could bring myself to wish them well. Really the only group I’d rather wish extinction upon is their owners. If they … Continue reading →

I could look at the rest of the channel to find out for sure, but frankly it’s a beautiful morning and I can think of less depressing things to do with it. But if you’re up for something amazingly dismissive … Continue reading →

This is funny, but not remotely safe for work. “F*ck it. That’s enough Internet for today.” Funny and almost true enough not even to be all that much of a parody – except it’s sad/hilarious how many conservatives don’t even … Continue reading →

No matter what “it” is, apparently. This is what that “civil discourse about gun violence” always boils down to… I’m not even an NRA member and this offends me. A deranged PETA vlogger who probably hated the NRA as much … Continue reading →

I dipped into my window trim lumber to trim around the back door, but even if I hadn’t there wouldn’t have been quite enough to trim the front bedroom window. So I got the back door, side bedroom window and … Continue reading →

I go through this every Spring. Aside from inescapable quotidian chores that keep the lights on and the water running and the chickens (and dogs, and hermit) alive, Winter is mostly a time of sloth. My accepted leisure activities are … Continue reading →

Through some strangeness at Amazon, the Kindle edition of Basics of Resistance: Book 1 of the Practical Freedomista is still scheduled for an April 19 release but the paperback is available right now. Probably be a while before I have … Continue reading →