Author Archives: Joel

Gun stocks slump following Trump presidential win Firearm stocks opened high Wednesday, but within just a few hours began steadily dropping. By end of the day, three major gun manufacturers saw declines in their share prices. Vista Outdoors made out … Continue reading →

So, is dissent the highest form of patriotism again *now*? Or not 'til middle of January? #askingforafriend — Tamara K. (@TamSlick) November 9, 2016 h/t to who else?

😀 H/T to he knows who.

I am flabbergasted. I absolutely did not see that coming. Had a whole different post planned. Well, it’s not like you were offered any good choices. Weep for America, though the next four years may be quite entertaining. And even … Continue reading →

“It is a silly place.” There is absolutely no sense left in a society that could ever, for any reason, evoke the following headline: Can Facebook friendships be saved once election ends? Really. Even if it were parody – which … Continue reading →

On to the next annoying little matter! What could possibly go wrong? The Secret Lair is in full lockdown. I’m hiding behind my chair and forbidding firearms to the pack rats. They’re Hillary voters, I just know it.

Okay, so what with the shoulder thing I’ve been letting the chores that could slide, slide. Now I’m up to my ass in alligators, and had a beautiful day to try and catch up. Laundry! Been a week since I … Continue reading →

“Loyalty” cards, my ass… SEATTLE – A King County letter that ended up in the mailboxes of thousands of pet owners is raising concerns over privacy. The letter told pet owners to license their pets or face a $250 fine. … Continue reading →

A day that’s off to a good start. I guess she spent the last several years suffering an agonizing and debilitating disease. Normally that would make me feel sympathetic. For the children.

Or was that the Dalai Ruger? I get them mixed up.

Okay, this morning dawned – eventually – as gloomy and foggy as yesterday did… Which is grounds for instant Seasonal Affective Disorder here in the frickin’ Arid Desert, okay? It rained last night, it rained ALL day yesterday, it rained … Continue reading →

In ways I’ve never quite fully understood. It has rained all day, causing mudslides on the ashy slopes and making the gullies run, no doubt reducing the dirt roads to soup and unfortunately delaying Landlady’s visit – which I’m told … Continue reading →

Fog! Fog and heavy overcast, after a night of rain so heavy the wash ran. The wash never runs in November, except this time it did. Prior to this summer, I’d be anxious to turn off every electrical load that … Continue reading →

Ranch dressing is what’s wrong with America And a lot of what’s there is just food snobbery, really, there’s no reason to click the link. The writer’s just a hipster upset that hoi polloi have taken to dipping pizza in … Continue reading →

…and a good swift kick. Seymour and his hens are molting right now, and not showing to best advantage. He’s normally a fine figure of a Rhode Island Red cock, and not this bedraggled. But I confess I’d given up … Continue reading →

…I was born and raised in Detroit, after all. (Yes, by my own rules I’m not supposed to talk about this for another week. But…I can’t stand it.) Was there ever any organization anywhere with its head so firmly and … Continue reading →

Cuts into their opportunities for graft, obviously, but also… Hillary: Impose Gun Control by Judicial Fiat The papers found in her husband’s presidential archives in Little Rock show why the lawsuits that the PLCAA stopped were so important to his … Continue reading →

Sometime in the first week of November – can’t remember the precise date – I celebrate ten years full-time in the desert. With the aid of my forever-honored friends the Unnamed People in the Undisclosed Location, I moved into the … Continue reading →

I awoke this morning – for this last time in quite a long series of times over a very long night – to a simple, inescapable exercise in karma: When I was in my 20’s, I got yelled at for … Continue reading →

The past three days I’ve had Ghost over at my place while L went to the big city for some family stuff. She was due to return this afternoon, and this afternoon I duly received a text saying she was … Continue reading →