Author Archives: Joel

Okay, so I hurt my back again. Or still, I don’t know. I’m not aware that I did anything to deserve it, it just started hurting again when I got up yesterday. And I sat out most of the afternoon … Continue reading →

Rule #1: Don’t take advice from me. I’ve said it before and meant it. I didn’t end up a hermit in the desert because of my great people skills. I got this great idea for showing appreciation to my neighbors … Continue reading →

It was bound to happen. Poor Little Bear. So young. So naive. So – well, stupid. And so stuck in the middle of a love triangle. When the kitten started playing with LB so frenetically, that was nothing. She has … Continue reading →

Hit the range yesterday with my neighbor J. He had some cousins visiting from [unnamed Eastern European country where guns are banned], so of course we had to show them a good time American-style. Brought all the toys, and did … Continue reading →

…I woke up this morning thinking about that movie Idiocracy. Unfortunately, Neil Armstrong is dead. He didn’t herald the age of us all wearing silver suits and flitting around the asteroids as advertised. But he did give us a few … Continue reading →

During yesterday’s shopping spree, the local grocery obviously had a banana-related problem. They were overloaded with ripe bananas that would be over-ripe very soon, and they were clearly motivated to get the damned things out of the store ASAP. Great … Continue reading →

Our question to Schneiderman’s office: “If the police shot these people, how would tougher gun laws prevent that?” A spokeswoman promised to “get back to” me. Perhaps she is waiting for Christmas.

I feel happier this morning. I woke to the knowledge that if something happened to certain essential commodities, I had ready spares. Since my economic condition always hovers on the edge of failure, this is an ongoing issue. My idea … Continue reading →

The Hardcore Security Gear Protecting the Conventions Congress gave Tampa and Charlotte police $50 million each to keep America’s egg-throwing anarchists at bay during the Republican and Democratic conventions. Turns out, both cities got quite a lot of bang for … Continue reading →

Oh. Never mind. Eeerily, just minutes before the mayhem, Mayor Bloomberg was warning about the dangers of “too many guns on the streets” on his weekly radio show. “The argument guns don’t kill people, people kill people is one of … Continue reading →

Shamelessly stolen from Borepatch.

Love to blurt stuff out for all the world to see, but you’re afraid sinister men will put you on their little list? I don’t know how correct it is, but here’s a thought…

This one is kind of entertaining.

That I didn’t know where I was going to end up when I left Socal, but wherever it was I’d never stop bitching about the weather. The weather, see, being the only thing I liked about…never mind. Anyway. A typical … Continue reading →

One of my favorite bloggers, The AnarchAngel, has been going through some bad stuff. He just had a tumor the size of a softball taken out of his throat. Turns out it was malignant as hell, and the story goes … Continue reading →

Imagine Grateful Welfare Recipients Since I want the welfare state to vanish, I’m a little nervous to publicize these observations. But realistically, I don’t need to worry. In politics, hate is stronger than love. The biggest friends of the welfare … Continue reading →

I chuckled. Stolen from Jay G. I know there’s been light posting here but it’s totally not my fault. The past two or three days have been like late November in Michigan: Solid clouds. Solar power has this one downside…

I’ve been following this with what could fairly be described as fascination. Remember the old myth about Allied airmen dropping single-shot weapons from planes over occupied France? Why go to all that trouble when you can sent them through telephone … Continue reading →

Maybe California needs another law? From here.

LB spent the first week with the kitten not unfriendly, but not open to rough play. I figured it had something to do with all those claws and teeth, and maybe it did. But after LB watched Landlady’s puppy Dharma … Continue reading →