Author Archives: Joel

A few days ago I got an email from a long-time correspondent asking a question that would have rocked me back on my heels, had I been standing up. “What is the best 9mm pistol for concealed carry?” I estimate … Continue reading →

Yeah, but we already overshot what’s needed for next month. Thank you very much!

A couple of months ago I cursed myself roundly for having somehow put a bunch of holes in my new/old canvas coat I inherited from Geiger Counter Guy back in December ’13. That’s only two and a half winters, and … Continue reading →

Just got back from the ophthalmologist in the big town about fifty miles away, and he’s upset with me for staying away so long. Seems the pressure in my eyeballs is way up again and the right eye has not … Continue reading →

This would be #1. Libertarians for Trump No, seriously. I’ll save you the trouble – It contains the following brief paragraph… But, the perfect is the enemy of the good. It is our goal to throw our weight behind the … Continue reading →

I think March is the month I’m most ambivalent about. On the one hand it’s the harbinger of Spring, and so that’s a really good thing. On the other hand it isn’t usually very warm. Just enough to lure me … Continue reading →

Here’s a cheery thought… In 1933, Germans were led to be so frightened of Communist totalitarianism that they voted a Fascist totalitarian into office. Twelve years later, many of those voters were dead and Europe – including Germany – was … Continue reading →

(CNSNews.com) – Nearly six million Americans – or 2.5 percent of adults in the U.S. – suffer from “marijuana use disorder”, according to a new study by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). This finding has nothing … Continue reading →

Gun > Hatchet A 60-year-old man with a valid concealed carry license was drinking his morning coffee when a masked man, later identified as 43-year-old Steven Blacktongue, entered the convenience store and began attacking the clerk, Kuldeep Singh. The attacker … Continue reading →

Clinton: “We didn’t lose a single person” in Libya Well, except for those direct employees of mine whom I abandoned and then lied about. But if you can’t use people up and throw them away, what the hell good are … Continue reading →

…why do you talk and behave the way you do? If you carry a gun in public you are a terrorist. Period. There is no other way around it, because you are using the gun to intimidate in the name … Continue reading →

Or, possibly, should carry really big guns. Or designate one low-ranking crewman to wear a red shirt over his space suit, perhaps? Couldn’t hurt, as long as it isn’t me. h/t, and there’s some other good stuff at the link.

Went over to Landlady’s this morning, to do a little work converting the Big Chickenhouse back to Gitmo. Last thing I did was steal her nice storebought nesting box, brought it home and installed in the coop at the Fortress … Continue reading →

Landlady asked this morning if I still intended to get into raising meat rabbits. I had to confess that the answer was provisionally yes but practically no. That is, I will maintain facilities capable of supporting it, but don’t plan … Continue reading →

Uncle Joel will go old school at need. Moving gasoline from the town to the Jeep has thoroughly worn Landlady’s old plastic gas jugs all the hell out. Expansion and contraction until they’ve lost all shape and won’t even stand … Continue reading →

…since here at the gulch Spring started in early February this year. But for the rest of you poor frostbit froods… Eight days to the official start of Spring! Which, as I recall from my many years in the frozen … Continue reading →

…he’d been dead 27 years. Which useless fact came to mind this afternoon, when I read that Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer fame died last night at age 71. I wasn’t a fan, and never in life gave … Continue reading →

Cops Wrongly Raid 86-yo Man’s Home, Taser and Arrest Him for Cooking Soup Technically he was arrested for harassing the police officers. For bleeding on them, maybe, I’m not sure. But the soup was apparently not mentioned in the indictment. … Continue reading →

But all did not go as planned. Fair warning: Nothing graphic, but some people may find some of what’s below the fold a little unpleasant.

Here’s a shocking new truth every shooter has known for eighty years or so… U.S. Gun Sales are Being Used to Save the Environment Actually I don’t know whether the money is ‘saving the environment,’ but let that go for … Continue reading →