Author Archives: Joel

He’s been confused for months now. Is he allowed to eat, or isn’t he? LB developed a very bad habit of lying next to the food bowl and grazing for as long as there was any food in the bowl … Continue reading →

A couple of examples, gleaned from my morning surfing: If You Are Reading This, You Are the Resistance…and your talents are needed these last few weeks. Oh! I loves me some resistance! Tell me more! Tell me how! Ah hell… … Continue reading →

Here it is the 19th, and I didn’t even know it was Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Possibly because whenever there’s domestic violence here at the Secret Lair I’m pretty much always already aware of it. Doesn’t even matter what month … Continue reading →

Ever since Zoe discovered she could get up into the loft and back down again all by her big-girl self (yes, she has mastered the cat ladder I could never get Click to look at), she’s been using the whole … Continue reading →

I don’t really give a damn which of those other lying liars you elect president. But I want this guy back as VP. He’s a much bigger hoot than Ryan could ever hope to be.

…I think mine fails. Got bullied out of bed by the animals. Pulled myself together, grumped on down the ladder. Outside was as cold as it’s been so far at 33o. Inside it was mid-fifties. Time to start the first … Continue reading →

When somebody tells you, “Sure! I can get you all the explosives you need! What do you want to blow up?” you’re talking to a fed. And he’s talking to an idiot. According to the ABC story, …terrorists have tried … Continue reading →

In Alabama, even the pants-shitting hoplophobes agree that openly carrying a handgun is perfectly legal. Which doesn’t mean the ones in government plan to put up with it, because it’s scary bad. “We do not want to infringe on anyone’s … Continue reading →

The cat ladder will easily get a cat up to the top of the kitchen cabinets, but getting from there to the loft or back again became a victim of my poor planning: There’s a mattress in the way. I’ve … Continue reading →

The Curmudgeon’s got the right idea.

Get a load of this. California Senate Bill 1234 creates America’s first state-sponsored and state-managed retirement program for private-sector workers. Because the scheme creates new pensions for nonunion workers, however, it escapes the wrath of private unions and powerful corporations … Continue reading →

Private to the Jehovah’s Witnesses who keep leaving magazine back-issues strewn all over the breezeway of Landlady’s barn… Is it not evident to you that nobody lives there? And that a more accurate term for the “breezeway” would be “wind … Continue reading →

Or at least multipurpose practical. It’s ammo storage! It’s a piggy bank! It’s both! I gotta get me one of these. No shotgun shells, though. Next, a motorized tie rack modified to dispense magazines. It’ll come in OD or coyote … Continue reading →

Via a friend, who sent me this link: I submit that calling something “tactical” and giving it subdued colors doesn’t make it tactical, whatever that means anyway in this context. Therefore, after I take over the world (maniacal laughter) there … Continue reading →

Courtesy of Joe Huffman comes this bit of idiotic fluff… And after wracking my brain to come up with a response that hasn’t been said a million times already, all I’ve got is this. ETA: Speaking of machine guns and … Continue reading →

It’s funny. As of next month I’ll have been living out in the boonies for six years. But I was born in Detroit, lived most of my adult life in cities, and my outlook is essentially urban. Which is why … Continue reading →

I’ve had a bedmate for the past two nights, and that’s likely to continue whether I like it or not. Zoe has learned that she can easily get into the Lair’s loft by simply climbing one of the ladder uprights. … Continue reading →

From Rich Hailey, via Bayou Renaissance Man: Left or right, it doesn’t matter; they say the same things. Obama says he’s going to create jobs; Romney says he’s going to create more jobs, and do it cheaper than Obama. Neither … Continue reading →

It happened again yesterday. This makes three times. Poor old clueless Uncle Joel opens Firefox and finds all his bookmarks gone. History, cookies wiped. Mew. Of course I can’t remember the names of half the sites I keep on the … Continue reading →

Oh, the things I see when I don’t have a camera… So I went over to D&L’s around three this afternoon, because they were going to town for a quick grocery run and invited me to tag along. And we … Continue reading →