Author Archives: Joel

Oleg Volk’s site has moved. Okay, Oleg Volk seems to have several sites and I’m not even sure I know them all, but instead of a LiveJournal page he has set up a new blog here. I love this guy’s … Continue reading →

The dogs have been alerting to things I can’t see in the middle of the night, and I’ve been thinking I need to add a little bling to my AK. Specifically, I want a shooter with a light on it. … Continue reading →

If you buy recorded music at all, you’ve probably noticed that the market has changed just a teensy bit in the past several years. I do believe the last album I bought involved Led Zeppelin, and even I’ve noticed that. … Continue reading →

Hey, I downloaded an H. Beam Piper short novel from Gutenberg yesterday, to tide me through the first part of the weekend snow. It’s called Murder in the Gunroom, and is quite an unusual piece for him. I’m not a … Continue reading →

I really hated that broad when I was a teenager. Hey, self-sacrificing sweetums! This is for you.

Last Monday we discussed the Great Leader’s new economic disaster budget proposal, which includes a New! Improved! wireless network that will give everybody high-speed internet access. I don’t recall whether this was to be paid for by cracking the bones … Continue reading →

Get a load of this: That’s either my grandkid-in-making, or a cleverly-disguised H. R. Giger print. Stay tuned. Current speculation says it’s a girl.

You can’t make this stuff up, or even lampoon it. “I don’t like the idea of combating violence with violence,” Helmke said in regards to students carrying weapons to class on the off-chance that a university would be faced with … Continue reading →

It was bound to happen. I got a call this afternoon from a local well-digger, who was finally ready to come fix SurvivalDave’s well. SurvivalDave is my (geographically) closest neighbor – I rarely see him, but he now owns free-and-clear … Continue reading →

…but good luck with this. Public’s Help Sought to Find OSP Detective’s Missing Handgun from Portland-area Hospital02/10/2011Lieutenant Gregg HastingsPublic Information Officer(503) 731-3020 ext. 247 Photograph link valid 30 dayshttp://www.flashalertnewswire.net/images/news/2011-02/1002/41922/Glock_model_22.jpg Oregon State Police (OSP) is asking for the public’s help for … Continue reading →

Saw this on Unc: [at a TFA meeting] I met an very agitated man (30-40ish, thin build, receding hairline, long, stringy dark hair, glasses) at the front door. I wondered why he rather snarled at me as we passed in … Continue reading →

I hate Netflix. I didn’t used to hate Netflix. Netflix used to be cool. When Claire lived here, she was always getting DVDs in the mail from Netflix. Anybody who sends you DVDs in the mail has got to be … Continue reading →

It’s Thursday, and on Thursday we were promised storms of rain and snow, apocalyptic cold, hurricane wind, plagues of frogs and locusts, piles and jerboas. The meadows turning to blood. Fire from the sky. Mass hysteria. At nine this morning … Continue reading →

Frightened politicians crawl out of woodwork, wreak havoc. When Rep. Shelley Berkley decided to hold a “Congress on Your Corner” event here Friday, her plan was to prove that fear hadn’t changed the way Congress works. She wound up proving … Continue reading →

Reading Joe Huffman’s blog this morning, I got to thinking about how, whenever the anti-gunners come out from their fuzzy little rocks, all the rhetoric sounds exactly alike. How does that work?  Is there some underground conference room beneath Brady … Continue reading →

“As soon as she did that, he stopped trying to get in the door.” Fairbanks Police Sgt. Kurt Lockwood Also, “A knife always works.”  Larry Niven

Yellow tape fences the yard that he used to tendWith such care, such apparent prideThe bushes beneath the windows now are all trampledBy heavy boots; glass shards twinkle like jewelsFrom the flash-bangs and the hammers. They came at night, dozens … Continue reading →

I was down to a t-shirt before noon.  After shoveling fresh horseshit I loaded a trailer with old stuff, headed home, and … ran out of gas. Shite.  I thought I had another ten miles or so in there.  Naturally … Continue reading →

‘Cause I’m wearing a T-SHIRT!!!ZOMG!!

…um…I’m kinda guessing 100% of the people within the sight of my words do. In fact, one way or another 100% of the people in the whole country do, even if they have to go to a public library to … Continue reading →