Author Archives: Joel

This is the first time in nearly a month the overnight temp dropped into the teens, and I’m clenching my teeth to keep from whimpering. Normally by this time I just pack on the layers and grunt that any temperature … Continue reading →

#47 – The stocking manager of the nearest town’s single drug store is not afraid to go full redneck.

…and anyway I got nothin’ at the moment. So I leave you for now with this still from a TFB post on H&K’s Gray Room……where they still hate you and think you suck, and where meetings are presumably very polite. … Continue reading →

Ginsburg: ‘I wasn’t 100 percent sober’ at State of the Union I’m not Justice Ginsburg’s biggest fan, but in fairness must confess that if I ever agreed to attend the damned thing you could safely assume I was sloshed at … Continue reading →

You’re right and I’m wrong. You’re good and I’m bad. You’re ‘sensible’ and I’m a pathetic, fear-addled, penis-substituting rube. Got it. But then why can’t you ever just tell the truth? Why do you always have to lie to get … Continue reading →

That epoxy repair worked quite well. I see no reason to fear it won’t continue to do so. Thanks for the suggestion! — *A vanishingly small possibility, I concede, but you can’t prove it’s zero…

Seriously. A breezy 45 at midmorning and I’m whining. The freakishly warm weather has moderated to something only quite a bit warmer than normal for mid-February. Last night it got down to 24, which is pleasantly not-very-cold, and I’m all … Continue reading →

Okay, look, I’m just looking out for my friends. Got a problem with that? So this afternoon some rain clouds rolled in. I waited till the brief flurries passed, then loaded the boys into the Jeep and went over to … Continue reading →

Via Codrea, this Murray Rothbard article with some thought-provoking revisionism on the Whiskey Rebellion… The main distortion of the Official View of the Whiskey Rebellion was its alleged confinement to four counties of western Pennsylvania. From recent research, we now … Continue reading →

When I hear of a pistol named “Lady’s Home Companion,” I’m expecting an insulting lightweight .38 snubby. This is not…that. And then I hear it was made by Cobray, which explains a lot. “It is quite possibly the worst pistol … Continue reading →

But some mistakes, having been survived, are just clearly there to be learned from. Like, beware of humans giving away free peanut butter.Here we have the (rather fuzzy, sorry) south end of a very dead three-legged mouse. On a couple … Continue reading →

I haven’t read this blog, The Art of Not Being Governed, very extensively so if it turns out to be a neonazi or everytown front, don’t blame me, okay? But so far I’m enjoying it. It’s got a recurring feature … Continue reading →

I appear to have fixed my oven. I scrounged a brand-new barbecue regulator, went through the ritual scramble for hose adaptors until I could get the thing connected to the stove, and at the moment the oven works perfectly. I … Continue reading →

Angst and self-doubt about this supposed conflict between convenience and privacy. Every day we are confronted more and more by our contradictory choices. On one hand, we want everything more convenient (or at least Big Tech thinks we want everything … Continue reading →

Neighbor L pointed out to me that there’s a guy at the local flea market who sells perfectly good handles for long tools at a price roughly 1/2 what I paid for epoxy and nylon string, but I got curious … Continue reading →

I am suspending myself until I get to the bottom of what I've done & will take appropriate action based on what I discover — Brian Williams — Noah Wehrman (@NoahWehrman) February 9, 2015 You guys stay safe out there. … Continue reading →

What an incredible string of beautiful days we’ve had! For over a week the temps have been mid-to-high sixties with cloudless or mostly-sunny skies and hardly any wind. The nice weather was supposed to start ending tomorrow, this is after … Continue reading →

…And even when I last owned a television set, which was 2006, I never watched network news so until a few days ago I couldn’t have told you with any certainty who Brian Williams even is… …And I’m not going … Continue reading →

…but I can make it easier than last time.Last time the crossbar for the pulley was improvised – at best – and at a bad height and kind of scary. Today 16 feet of two-by gave up life to make … Continue reading →

T-shirt weather before 10! Hell, t-shirt weather at all on the first week in February is extraordinary, but today it might scrape the bottom of 70 in the shade. And there ain’t much shade. Had to make two trips with … Continue reading →