Author Archives: Joel

Cold blooded. #AprilFools pic.twitter.com/gcWrCxzD4A — Scott McClellan (@bamasevere) April 1, 2016

🙁 Grandma is indicted, the demorats nominate Biden, Sanders runs as a commie. The elephants nominate Romney or Ryan, Trump forms the Trump Party. This leaves us Biden vs. Sanders vs. Romney/Ryan Part Deux vs. Trump. The commie wins. I … Continue reading →

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From The Vulgar Curmudgeon comes the story of what may well be the ultimate ghost. Gray Man, Level 10 Achieved. [Forest rangers] came back a couple weeks later after that and the whole cabin and everything in it was gone, … Continue reading →

…comes Claire’s latest… Friday Freedom Question: Why is it always about fighting? But given that the main thing we do with freedom is enjoy it, given that it is, in most of our lives, as lovely and easy a thing … Continue reading →

The problem with feminism, as with any other radical egalitarian ideology, is that rearranging the world to fit a political agenda is a poor substitute for dealing with your own problems as an individual. You know it’s a slow morning … Continue reading →

One thing every off-grid homestead really ought to have is a good bright spotlight. Like the shotgun behind the door it’s not something you’ll need every day but when you need it you need it right now and in perfect … Continue reading →

Court Strikes Down Last Handgun Ban in the United States Court Strikes Down Last Handgun Ban in the United States By Dan Zimmerman on March 29, 2016 “The Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands is part of U.S. sovereign territory, … Continue reading →

Well, the good news is it’s not windy this morning. But the sky clabbered up and snowed on us overnight, I squeegeed about a quarter inch off the solar panels this morning and it’s already pretty much melted off the … Continue reading →

Alert Reader MJR sends the following link: The Thunder .50 BMG pistol And I’m like, no f*cking way. And they’re like, way. There is no cartridge so ludicrous that somebody hasn’t chambered a pistol for it. Truly painful-looking .gif at … Continue reading →

I look around and note with alarm that at present I actually possess four holsters for the Taurus Tracker – and I’m still looking for the ‘right’ one. Several pics below the fold:

…from last week’s paltry 30 grams. In other news, since the implementation of our Dear Leader’s enlightened health care plan, bringing happiness, health and savings to us all, “health care prices have risen at the lowest rate in 50 years.” … Continue reading →

I’ve been up since quarter after three, dragged out to learn what that awful metallic banging was. The windstorm resumed overnight and tore all but one end of an eight-foot length of flashing off the windward side of the cabin, … Continue reading →

When I saw the live trap had turned 90o with the closed end facing me, I thought I had a nice easy triumphant post handed to me. Only to find that he’d managed to get the bread from the closed … Continue reading →

Allow me to be of service. Be aware that this song may actually be NSFW. It’s incredible to me that they got away with recording it in 1963. Many years later Leslie Fish recorded a greatly expurgated – almost entirely … Continue reading →

The Lords of Perversity decided to scold me for my weather bitching earlier with a gorgeous and wind-free morning. In fact it’s early afternoon and it still hasn’t gotten unacceptably windy. I did laundry this morning followed by a nice … Continue reading →

I don’t know what I’m bitching about. It’s been sunny and not all that cold for March; fifties and sixties daytime, twenties and thirties at night. That’s not bad for March. But the wind has howled, day after day. I … Continue reading →

This just in, the entire Spanish language has been declared problematic. Although I don’t fully understand why inanimate objects need to be gendered, it is not as bothersome to me as using the masculine form to refer to a group … Continue reading →

Here’s a happy-talk link for Saturday Morning… One Million Texans With Guns Which – depending on how you read it – either celebrates or laments the fact that with a recent surge in applications there are now over… …in the … Continue reading →

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