Author Archives: Joel

A conservative opines on that Open Carry Texas thing from last week… Regardless of the legality of the thing, it is almost certainly ill-advised to alarm people in the name of making them feel more comfortable around guns. In the … Continue reading →

There have been a couple of very generous donations on TUAK’s Paypal account, which will help get me out of hock to my Internet provider for a couple of months. Thanks!

A couple of days ago Claire broke some alarming news… Remember how officials and media in the statist-states released data and maps showing the locations of known gun owners? Well, now Montana has issued its own gunowner map. Wyoming is … Continue reading →

Spent part of the morning over at D&L’s. They’ve been assembling furniture. A lot. One of the things that always struck me about D&L is that they know where they want to spend money. Unlike me, they carefully planned and … Continue reading →

This is where I live. In the summer it’s either hot and dry or wet and muddy. In the winter it’s frigid. As the crow flies this photo is roughly five miles from the nearest power pole. If you want … Continue reading →

The voting is not going the way I’m sure those who did the proposing would have wished. 613 for/38368 against, as of this posting. Which probably doesn’t mean anything other than that gun owners are more likely to follow a … Continue reading →

My neighbors J&H have been away all week, leaving me to take care of things around their house. And this morning while attempting to keep Comet the Colt from making a break through the open gate to the grass he’s … Continue reading →

Got an email from Ian this afternoon with the photo he showed me yesterday. FG42 – the perfect rifle, perfected. Want. That. Bad.

I keep looking for the parody tell, because I hate it when I get taken. But as far as I can see this is completely serious. Thanks to Obamacare, Colorado has a new online insurance marketplace called “Connect for Health … Continue reading →

Ian came to visit yesterday, and we did some work together, and while we did we of course talked about guns. And he mentioned that he was in communication with some German guys who were making a tactical version of … Continue reading →

Ian unexpectedly showed up with a whole bunch of parts for Landlady’s new kitchen cabinetry that’s going in this month (All has been unloaded safely, Landlady) and care packages for Joel! I got 100 empty .44 Spl cases, which gives … Continue reading →

Note to Self: Stop reading the comments. Of course we are all going to die. We just aren’t going to allow ‘offgrid’ citizens to hasten the deaths of OTHER citizens. Here’s an article about a topic near and dear to … Continue reading →

So this week, through a couple of paying gigs, I found myself with $120 in my pocket. It’s one of the rare times this summer that that has happened. At some point, the kitty can get so low that even … Continue reading →

There’s a picture that’s been making the rounds all day. And it looks like somebody’s really being a bunch of assclowns, right? The context is evil, intimidating redneck gun owners outside an anti-gun meeting. And if that’s really what’s going … Continue reading →

S.F. programmers build alternative to HealthCare.gov “[The feds] got it completely backwards in terms of what people want up front,” said Liang. He added: “They want prices and benefits, so that they could make the decision.” Liang showed CBS News … Continue reading →

Oh, and Diane Feinstein is either a complete idiot or she thinks we all are. Not that those possibilities are mutually exclusive…

If you can’t trust a political candidate’s word, what can you trust? Wilson, a conservative Republican, led voters to believe he was black. According to CBS affiliate KHOU-TV, Wilson’s direct mail campaign included a flier with smiling black faces he … Continue reading →

…nothing of any importance happened. So here are funny pictures.