Author Archives: Joel

A rafting guide lost a 13-year-old girl when his raft flipped in white water. He couldn’t find her at first, finally did locate her after the Trained Professionals had arrived to save the day, jumped in and pulled the girl … Continue reading →

I’ve been aware for some years now that my tacticool elevator doesn’t even go near the top. I consider it a sign of my continuing development as a human being that this no longer bothers me. Very much. All the … Continue reading →

I’m seeing all these snarks from people who are frightened by firearms, suggesting that a person with an AR-15 is carrying a big gun to compensate for his small … endowment. This cannot be the case, as I will now … Continue reading →

Your employer(s) will definitely give you that “should we be calling the cops on this guy?” look if they catch you singing this song out in the middle of their shitfield. Just sayin’.

This is something I should have said when I linked to Claire Wolfe’s great post on the subject a couple of days ago. Just as you can’t be a proper boy scout without your own copy of the Boy Scout … Continue reading →

…Don’t tell me I’ve nothing to do. Last week was wood-cutting, for which I got paid. This week it’s been mostly trash-hauling, which should wrap up tomorrow. Today was the worst, since I already got all the fence-wire and big … Continue reading →

I saw this at Wendy McElroy’s site. A fellow named Brian McCrary was upset about a notorious speed trap in Bluff City, Tennessee, and got a chance to do something about it. The geniuses at the Bluff City PD let … Continue reading →

So on Sunday there was a big demonstration at the pathetic hole in the ground where the World Trade Center used to be. The demonstration was to protest the proposed construction of a big mosque two blocks away, which a … Continue reading →

I read it this morning, but this morning didn’t get off to such a great start and I wanted to read it again later, more carefully. A few days ago I took Claire Wolfe’s name in vain and mentioned the … Continue reading →

How come when cops get them, they’re “patrol rifles?” And did whoever wrote the town’s official justification for this have a straight face at the time? The world may never know… “As the largest local police agency located on Interstate … Continue reading →

Just a day in the life at Mordor-By-The-Potomac: A. The President establishes a commission to promote deficit reduction. B. The commission promptly demands a bigger staff and budget. Irony isn’t dead. But if we keep kicking it it’ll die sooner … Continue reading →

And not in a good way. (Warning: Bad Language.) Full disclosure demands that I admit I’ve had moments like this. Not into a live microphone during a TV newscast, but…

We ran our air conditioners. It’s been pretty hot for the past few days, but today was a scorcher. W and I both live in old RVs, which are equipped with air conditioners we never use. I’ve been here going … Continue reading →

Over at Borepatch there’s this very thought-provoking post called Arturus Rex in which he parallels the (devoutly to be wished) fall of the “Progressive Agenda” with the fall of Rome, with the part of the Barbarian Hordes being played in … Continue reading →

After five days in a woodlot and at the sawbuck, my pistol really needed a good cleaning even though I never fired a shot. I was too wasted to do it last night, and didn’t plan on taking the time … Continue reading →

Roy Clark has played the definitive – if rather flashy – Maleguena. The question has been, how the hell does he do that? Here’s how. He does it by being fast like a freak with his right hand, and having … Continue reading →

…and it will usually work out well for you. I’m not a Christian. But I did try it on for several years, studied the Bible closely, and found parts of it quite illuminating. One line in Psalm 15 always stuck … Continue reading →

I haven’t paid a lot of attention to SpaceX lately, because so far their only product has been press releases about their latest test failure – plus they took a lot of money from NASA which, while probably necessary, didn’t … Continue reading →

I got to D&L’s around 7:30, to find a very disgruntled couple of people. D was up on the straw pile, L was on her tractor with a pallet on the forks. Six or eight pallets were already filled with … Continue reading →

Oy. I spent all yesterday morning cutting up firewood for D&L, and maybe got through a third of the pile. (This job seems to work in thirds.) If I were stronger I’d be slowed by the fact that they’ve only … Continue reading →