Author Archives: Joel

So for nearly two weeks we’ve had May-like weather around here. Unfailingly sunny. Nights above freezing. Afternoons in the breezy seventies. In February. Absurd. Granted that prior to those two weeks this had been an relatively cold and wet winter, … Continue reading →

I’m pretty sure this is still banned in Mississippi, ML. 🙂 Some recent comments on various message boards frequented by shooters indicate that a few people are either changing their minds or are bowing to the politically correct pressure of … Continue reading →

Here’s a USA Today article blandly titled… Black Lives Matter meetings run afoul of library’s policy NASHVILLE — Library officials have told Nashville’s chapter of the Black Lives Matter movement that meetings restricting those who attend by race aren’t allowed … Continue reading →

If you have enjoyed his blog, go read this.

I can tell because I opened up Yahoo, planning to check the Official TUAK Email Address, and was assaulted by Gunz’R’Bad. Well, it’s a slow afternoon, I had to hang around inside until the bread was out of the oven, … Continue reading →

A couple of days ago it was cloudy – and in the seventies. We discussed it over the breakfast table at S&L’s this morning; Three weeks ago we got our last good snowfall, the final remnants of which only melted … Continue reading →

The 1972 prez election was the first one I ever remember getting excited about. All through the primary season, everybody I knew* was certain McGovern was going to be the guy, and McGovern was the only anti-war candidate. He got … Continue reading →

Corrections officer charged with carrying gun in New Jersey TRENTON, N.J. (AP) — A Pennsylvania corrections officer who says he was the victim of a car accident in New Jersey ended up facing charges himself when he told police he … Continue reading →

It has been my observation that three RIR laying hens are just a tiny bit more than enough to keep one guy, who likes to eat eggs, in eggs. And three is what I currently have. Since two is one … Continue reading →

Considering how critical I am of some other people’s attempts at practical knife sheaths, it’s a little hypocritical of me that I never had the balls to try it myself. This is my very first such effort ever, with no … Continue reading →

Somehow or other I managed to lose my favorite chicken-butchering tool, a teensy Victorinox paring knife. The fatal combination of some money in my pocket and a love of good knives caused me to do something a little rash at … Continue reading →

I got an email from someone wanting to know if I’d received the Paypal donation he made…back in December. It’s been that long since I looked, because things on that front got pretty quiet. And sure enough there it was, … Continue reading →

For most of my life I’ve heard about this thing called an SAT test. And it seems logical, given the timeline, to assume that at some point in my laughable or lamentable high school ‘career’ I sat down in a … Continue reading →

You guys know I am to current computer stuff what Little Bear is to Medieval Finnish Literature, right? And I’m pretty used to thinking of Apple as this evil empire seriously in need of somebody willing to shove a proton … Continue reading →

It is with sadness, indeed almost a sense of personal loss, that I report to you the death of Bowling Pin Chicken. “He died as he lived… free and stupid!” For the uninitiated, read the above after perusing The Saga … Continue reading →

I can picture archaeologists sifting these things out of our scattered, buried ruins 10,000 years from now, at first thinking they’re just shinies, and then figuring it out… Using nanostructured glass, scientists from the University of Southampton’s Optoelectronics Research Centre … Continue reading →

I’ve been saying I’m getting light strikes with the new Tracker, but the past couple of outings it has gotten worse and now it looks like a timing problem… And I think it’s getting worse. Gun has about 500 rounds … Continue reading →

As previously mentioned, Landlady’s Brahmas seem to be played out. If you’re a chicken in the Gulch and you’re not laying eggs, you’ll provide food some other way. You won’t like that. This is the beginning of the Brahmas’ third … Continue reading →

Scotsman, watchmaker, instrument designer, he became one of the great unsung benefactors of mankind when in 1775 he patented a design for the first practical flush toilet. Today I got the plumbing parts needed to actually connect my new ivory … Continue reading →

Normally a pointless redundancy, but sometimes it simply needs to be stated. President Obama’s expressed hope today in his weekly address “that we can avoid the political posturing and ideological brinksmanship that has bogged down this (Supreme Court nomination) process, … Continue reading →