Author Archives: Joel

When Bloomberg says something uncharacteristically sensible, he’s either had a stroke-induced moment of clarity or he’s just being a hypocrite. Which would be perfectly consistent. “[I]n a macro sense, one of the most dangerous places on a college campus is … Continue reading →

Or would that be coloral appropriation? h/t

Good luck out there. Me, I’m instituting a ‘shoot strangers on sight’ policy, using Ian’s stuff for plausible deniability. Believing in two genders is a ‘hate crime’ under police investigation at Catholic college Both the police and the [Loyola Marymount] … Continue reading →

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Uncle Joel is having a moral crisis. I was checking my chicken pellet usage yesterday and being appalled at the chunk my newbies have taken out of #150 in only two months. And I was thinking, ‘those pullets turn a … Continue reading →

…um…Oh yeah! Darwin Award! Realizing his home was being broken into, the homeowner yelled, “Don’t come in here, I have a gun!”. Boyd, with his face covered by a bandana, ignored the warning and eventually “physically forced himself in through … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning he disappeared to go hang with Landlady. Possibly having enjoyed as much of Dharma’s company as he cared to, he wandered over to S&L’s and spent the night there. As they were packing to leave ahead of the … Continue reading →

I checked to see if this article was a parody, it’s that perfect. A serial rapist was killed by a runaway trailer while distracted by pornography on his cell phone in Tennessee – just half a mile from where he … Continue reading →

Yesterday I went out to the county road to pick up Landlady, because given the forecast only an idiot would drive her little townie car to the wrong side of what’s likely to be miles of mud by tomorrow. I … Continue reading →

With the opportunity to make chicken pies arising suddenly out of the ruins of a bread bake gone bad, I had to plan on the fly. Since I’m also still learning this, results were bound to be…uneven. First one out … Continue reading →

Never saw much more than a glimpse of the sun today, and the weekend is supposed to be pretty wet. So it looks like we’re back on an austerity budget with the juice. End of April, and I’m blessing myself … Continue reading →

I think the main lesson we should take from this is “Ian and Karl have a flamethrower now.”

Woke this morning playing out all the things that needed to get done. It’s been an awful week for weather, as I gather it is all up and down this longitude. I’ve been out in it rather more than I … Continue reading →

h/t Yeah, some day you guys will be sitting around the internment camps saying, “Hey, remember Joel? And that time they found that picture on his computer? Man! I didn’t know you could squash a person that flat.”

The chickens normally go in and out of their coop from a small high door, as is traditional to give them some protection from wind and cold. I made the ramp from a long piece of scrap, of course, but … Continue reading →

…within which we can find a barrier of stunning – and eviscerating – antiqued whirling blades, and of course the traditional sharks with frickin’ laser beams… Most transparent administration in history, my ass… The U.S. Secret Service plans to raise … Continue reading →

What the hell good is it? I keep reading the titles of articles I can’t bring myself to actually click on, assuring republicans that the People Have Spoken and the repub nominee will be Donald John Trump – in spite … Continue reading →

…that any vehicle I drive for an extended period of time becomes undrivable by anyone else. This is because as things wear out or break, I just find workarounds rather than spend money and time to repair the problem. So … Continue reading →

If you send a comment with an unusual number of links (hasn’t happened yet) and it doesn’t show up ever, I probably bulk-nuked it. I’m getting lots of love from the usual suspects today, is all. Also, it’s cold and … Continue reading →

Ladies and gentlemen, the comedy stylings of Barack Obama: “I want to begin with an observation that, given the challenges that we face in the world and the headlines we see every day, may seem improbable but it’s true. We … Continue reading →