Author Archives: Joel

The shooting has started for those guys who thought it would be a good idea to stage an armed occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge. For a while I hoped that wouldn’t happen. I confess I never got what … Continue reading →

On my Tracfone, about half an hour after a call from a number I don’t recognize or have on my list. (After all these years, I still love Caller ID. If I don’t know you, I ain’t talking to you.) … Continue reading →

It’s too late to worry now! Ten years ago today I told you that in ten years Mother Earth would pass the point of no return, if you didn’t buy enough carbon credits from me and stop making all those … Continue reading →

Via Firehand, here’s something you don’t see every day… The entire rationale for wind turbines is to stop global warming by reducing the amount of CO2 being returned to the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels. In the attached … Continue reading →

And so bad people should not have them. And who decides who’s a bad person? We do. So suck it, gunhuggers. Yeah, I’m sure nobody saw this coming… Feds Stop Processing NICS Denial Appeals Each year thousands of Americans are … Continue reading →

Congress, fearing the touch of snow, gave itself the week off. We’ll have to wait a bit longer to see how they’ve most lately decided to betray us. “This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in … Continue reading →

Not as warm as yesterday, but well above freezing and way windy, which makes it as good a day as any to make a dent in the huge pile of backed-up laundry. I’ve kept ahead of the essentials, stump socks … Continue reading →

Oh, that would be perfect… Mr. Bloomberg, 73, has already taken concrete steps toward a possible campaign, and has indicated to friends and allies that he would be willing to spend at least $1 billion of his fortune on it, … Continue reading →

Okay, so there’s this Bernie Sanders ad… It only tangentially mentions Sanders, which is funny given that he’s not a premium brand quite yet, and will forever ruin one of my favorite S&G songs in memory. I saw it a … Continue reading →

No offense meant to you folks actually living on the east coast or anything. But you could move, couldn’t you? For the cause?

It’s quarter after seven in the evening and it just this moment occurred to me that I forgot to bring in the day’s eggs. And I had to think back, “How could I have not done that? It’s part of … Continue reading →

And as regular TUAK readers know, technology is not Uncle Joel’s best thing. A year or two ago, my old Tracfone having worn all the hell out, I bought a new one at the local dollar store. And since a … Continue reading →

At last, something good comes of a presidential election. For the first time since an old “I Like Ike” button I saw at a gun show that one time, here’s some campaign swag that’s almost, kinda, sorta, attractive*. In a … Continue reading →

I don’t know when it became common to name snowstorms. I grew up in a region where foot-thick snowfalls happened from time to time, and I don’t recall anybody naming them like hurricanes. They were disruptive, to be sure, but … Continue reading →

This is the sort of article that makes you think – about how silly gungrabbers have become. First, a legislator wants to pass a law. It’s either a perfectly sensible – dare I say ‘common sense?’ – law or the … Continue reading →

Those bastards Ian and Karl are at the SHOT show right now, being wined and dined and handed free ammo to ‘check out this latest gun!” I hate them so much… But here’s a bit of possibly interesting video to … Continue reading →

I think you’ll agree that no knife nut’s life can ever be complete until he owns one, once he’s seen this.

Several months ago there was a break-in at an untenanted home not far from here. It was the first time in a long time that something like this had happened, and a fairly jarring reminder that not everyone who lives … Continue reading →

Sorry for the delay here, but this post was going to be really time-consuming… So Friday night Landlady fought her way for hours through a snowstorm (not quite) solely for the purpose of delivering to the Secret Lair a ginormous … Continue reading →

Older Brother sent me this link… Air Force base pulls ad for MLK Day ‘fun shoot’ Um…yeah… Y’know, it’s encouraging to know that somewhere out there is a person capable of an unthinking faux pas of this astonishing magnitude, who … Continue reading →