Author Archives: Joel

Obama Breaks Record for Most Pages of Regulations in Single Year The Obama administration set a new record Thursday by producing 527 pages worth of new rules and regulations in a single day, bringing the president’s Federal Register up to … Continue reading →

Forecast called for mid-teens and it probably hit that on the ridgetops. My measured outdoor temperature here in the Lair’s hollow is generally a couple of degrees higher than the forecast, and my thermometer hit 22. Forty indoors, probably would … Continue reading →

Given that it’s in the news daily, why is it called the “Secret Service?” JW Probe: Secret Service Loses Guns, Badges, Laptops, “Other Equipment” The U.S. Secret Service has lost thousands of agency computers, radios, cell phones, weapons, credentials and … Continue reading →

I’ve spent the past week enjoying the sweet taste of anguished tears flowing from the tortured eyes of approximately 50% of those people in this country who think they have the right, nay, the obligation to rule me for my … Continue reading →

Feel free to take your school meals with you, Michelle. And though it may be petty of me, I hope Trump paves that fake garden of yours.

I’ve used my small metal shed for about two and a half years, I believe, and the only time it ever got a rat was when I absently left the door open. (that time, it got a rat in minutes … Continue reading →

Borepatch is right about that. (I kind of disagree that it’s only the Democrats.) Norman and Saxon “My son,” said the Norman Baron, “I am dying, and you will be heir To all the broad acres in England That William … Continue reading →

And so proud! I was just falling down a rabbit hole this morning while sipping coffee and listening to the Vogelzang rumble, and I followed a link to this article right here which asks the meaningful and highly relevant to … Continue reading →

You know the rest. I’ll keep you safe, no matter how many of you I have to kill to do it. “Everyone out there is like all right we are going to eat. Beans, potatoes, brisket, burnt ends, ribs, it’s … Continue reading →

“Evening,” as far as the solar power system is concerned, starts at about five PM and will get earlier. So if I’m up till ten watching a movie or something on the laptop, that’ll show up on the voltage display … Continue reading →

I’m largely over my morbid fear of chimney fire. And by ‘largely,’ I mean ‘not entirely.’ And I hate that pang I get first thing in the morning when the tinder is fully involved and the stove’s airflow is starting … Continue reading →

C’mon, admit it. You’ve got one. That box where all those donated or impulsive or outdated or just plain poor holster choices go. I visited mine this morning in another attempt to dial my inability to move my right shoulder … Continue reading →

The “camera” on my Tracfone did the best it could. You’re going to have to take my word for it. But here we go: You know you live in the desert when you come upon a raven sitting on your … Continue reading →

This is why voters can’t have nice things. h/t

(contented sigh) ETA: Hillary Clinton “at peace and at grace,” having come to terms in her heart with that bucket of racist, sexist, mouth-breathing banjo-playing toothless homophobic deplorables who denied her her birthright, may they shriek in hell for all … Continue reading →

I feel kind of the way I did when Orson Welles died – I didn’t really care, I wasn’t particularly a fan. A little went a long way. But he’d been around all my life, and it was as if … Continue reading →

Nah – can’t imagine any of them so self-aware as to notice, let alone wonder. An actual headline: The Soft, ‘Impotent’ Gun Sculptures Taking On Toxic Masculinity She mentioned the recent strides we’ve made as a culture in regards to … Continue reading →

That question about the condition and viability of my old inflatable mattress, forgotten for eight years in Landlady’s barn by all but the packrats? The answer is “no.” A generous reader has already promised to replace it with something made … Continue reading →

My shoulder continues to improve, slowly, day by day. Biggest problem with it, other than the whole “can’t use my right arm” thing, was that I couldn’t sleep through the night. And I’d just gotten over that! It’s infuriating. For … Continue reading →

Here’s a headline I did not make up. Counseling, vigils, safe spaces used to calm college students distressed by Trump victory How’s a poor blogger to know what’s satire and what isn’t, when you people behave this way? Dear college … Continue reading →