Author Archives: Joel

People say we’re crazy fetishists. That we’re compensating for our small plumbing. That we’ve got Rambo fantasies. That we’re living in a world of paranoid delusions. People say they don’t understand why the guns are so important. I say we’re … Continue reading →

Saw this over at Borepatch. I know nothing of either Pinkie Pie or Skyrim, but if you put them both together they seem to spell weird mayhem. When I was a kid, ditchweed pot was generally considered extreme fun. Pong … Continue reading →

As expected, this got long and grim. Sorry. Saturday Claire posted one of her patented think pieces, and I’d probably have commented on it here before now except I never know how long that’s going to take and I’ve been … Continue reading →

In reply to Obama’s recent claim that he goes shooting “all the time:” “Killing people with drones doesn’t count, Barack.”

There are days when I think I’m never going to get this right. I’m too clueless to ever live a free life. I should get a subsidized apartment in a housing project and spend the rest of my miserable, unworthy … Continue reading →

Seems to be this new Hillary meme – I see it everywhere this morning. At first it confused me, but this explains it…

Boy, as nice as the temperature has been, this week has really sucked. Yesterday at almost precisely 6:30 PM the Lair’s water started running again. I rejoiced, went outside to check for leaks caused by freezing, and found a bad … Continue reading →

Did something stupid – I trusted the weatherman. Ran the batteries down a bit night before last trusting that yesterday would be “partly cloudy.” It socked in as thick as I’ve ever seen it, and rained in the afternoon and … Continue reading →

I really can’t recommend Zenni Optical. Okay, I knew it wasn’t going to take any 1-2 weeks to get them, because I ordered just before the holidays. A solid month was a little overboard, though. I wasn’t expecting frames forged … Continue reading →

Nice warm day today. Temp topped out around sixty in the shade. Water’s still not dripping, so that’s bad, but I figured I’d use this balmy interlude to fire up M’s tractor and sort out J&H’s manure pile. Poor thing … Continue reading →

This little clip on what James for-god’s-sake Taylor thinks about gun control is of no interest in itself. Taylor has been familiar to me since high school. And at no time in my life from then till now have I … Continue reading →

I know just when, too. Woke up this morning around five-ish, and she was in the bed with me happily waiting to get her belly scratched. She went downstairs and outside, as she usually does around then, and I took … Continue reading →

What are you, stupid? Gunnies got a kick out of the recent NY law banning magazines that hold more than 7 rounds, written and passed so quickly they forgot to exempt the Only Ones. Nobody seriously expected it to limit … Continue reading →

Spent the afternoon in Geiger Counter Guy’s shop making arsenic caps. This is a painstakingly tedious process involving many steps of hand work to convert what was once hundreds of squirt bottle caps to hundreds of things that can test … Continue reading →

So here’s this lady who gets depressed and suicidal. I’ve very sorry to hear that. No, seriously, I can almost relate. Having gone through some bad stuff from time to time in my life, the question of whether I wouldn’t … Continue reading →

Eric Holder Displays Extraordinary Hypocrisy on Gun Control Ya think? To display honesty on that topic, he’d have to order himself SWATted and tazed. On video. Does he own a dog? In an unhypocritical world he’d pretty much have to … Continue reading →

Temp in the shade scraped the bottom edge of fifty today! I went to town with D&L without the usual six layers, wearing my canvas coat more as a gun burka than out of a need to stay warm. We’re … Continue reading →

That whitehouse.gov petition demanding protection parity for the children of politicians has crossed well over the 25,000-signature threshold. Has Sidwell Friends been declared a gun-free zone yet? Oh, wait! Says here it’s a non-issue, since the school doesn’t have armed … Continue reading →

Everything can be taken to destructive extremes. The guy’s had a solid four years to prove himself the answer to America’s problems. At what point does doubt begin to creep into even the truest believer’s mind?