Author Archives: Joel

When this area was bought up by some real estate people and laid out as residential plots, they bulldozed a bunch of halfhearted roads here and there. Those that were never used have pretty much gone back to young versions … Continue reading →

No, seriously. They said that. Also, keeping chickens in the house is generally a bad idea. This may actually be a historic day. Normally when I reference the CDC it’s for the purpose of ridiculing the CDC. In this case … Continue reading →

Missed it by that much. If I’d cut everything I had ready to cut, I think I’d have made it. I love the hardwood pallets. They’re the only source of hardwood I’ve found for burning, and that lovely hard dense … Continue reading →

Cut up most of the pallets I cut apart yesterday, which made for a good couple of days. I didn’t really intend to work on firewood this week, planning rather to get the floor tiling behind me. But with Ghost … Continue reading →

Situation: You’re the chief of a small West Virginia police department. A police officer under your command, responding to a domestic dispute call, is confronted by an armed man who behaves belligerently and demands that the officer shoot him. Perceiving … Continue reading →

Here’s a typical MSM article, about some gay group pushing a typically totalitarian gun policy and blaming every bad thing since the Hundred Years War on the NRA and its demonic hold on … oh, you already know the routine. … Continue reading →

– @HillaryClinton the picture of health here in a featured article for the latest issue of Women’s Health magazine pic.twitter.com/lYqx4pPHkF — Charlie Spiering (@charliespiering) September 13, 2016 Just in time for the Sabbath Gasbags discussing her latest public collapse. Also, … Continue reading →

I just opened a brand-new can of Spam, and Ghost slept through it. That has never happened before. Can’t jump up onto platforms any more, either. Has to take the stairs into the Lair, can’t get into the back of … Continue reading →

Got the chicken chores done. Kinda bombed out on cutting firewood, so I figured, “I’ll do a couple loads of laundry.” Not a cloud in the sky when I decided that. Clouds started rolling in while I was agitating the … Continue reading →

Okay. Y’all recall that recently Big Brother sent me a cordless reciprocating saw… Same brand as that drill/driver I’ve been so happy with for over a year, same voltage, same everything. I particularly wanted this saw because it’s firewood-cutting season, … Continue reading →

Significantly, it’s in the paper of a first-line ivy league university. Harvard Crimson: No Guns on Campus, because students are stupid. [I]f gun proponents truly want to maximize safety, measures other than the further proliferation of arms should be sought … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentlemen, the next president of the United States… Can’t honestly say I wish her well. I will hasten to say, in the interest of saving some SS agent the trip all the way out here, that I don’t … Continue reading →

He’ll be staying six days this time. I wasn’t able to bring his bed back for him, because last weekend he pulled the same thing on Landlady that he always does to me and she threw it on the trailer … Continue reading →

I remember where I was. I was working a contract job in San Jose, by happenstance the last I ever had in my professional specialty, writing documentation for a new robot in those machines that handle silicon wafers in microprocessor … Continue reading →

I’m not really a revolver guy, even though I’ve carried one every day for the past several years. So quick-reload gadgets still seem a little exotic to me – why not just slap in another magazine, right? With the old … Continue reading →

Find a love that looks at you the way the press looks at Hillary. pic.twitter.com/KxPXNpWl5n — Razor (@hale_razor) September 6, 2016 h/t Have you…the wing?

Obama gets a parasitic worm named after him. Meet Baracktrema obamai, a tiny parasitic flatworm that lives in turtles’ blood. A new study officially names the two-inch-long, hair-thin creature after Obama. Thomas Platt, the newly retired biology professor at Saint … Continue reading →

…at least keep some perspective on it. Even for a hermit who lives as far back in the desert as he can arrange to get without actually involving caves, sometimes politics intrudes. Especially during this WTF election I waver between … Continue reading →

Come back when you’re entitled to an opinion. The answer will still be no, though. H/T to Claire.

Regular readers are probably tired of hearing this, but it is with great sadness I report that Official TUAK Camera #4 has bitten the dust. Yes, Camera #1, donated by Canadian Momma/Grey Lady, died early of dirt in the zoom … Continue reading →