Author Archives: Joel

I have just been reminded, via the Unpopular Ideas Club, that as of November 26, 2010, America (The Good Guys) will have been liberating Afghanistan exactly as long as Russia (The Bad Guys) did. Let’s compare what those hapless, brutal … Continue reading →

Seen on a comment thread somewhere: Mandatory healthcare will inaugurate a blood letting this country hasn’t seen since the War of Northern Aggression, and folks will resist – and I will help those innocent folks in their struggle for Liberty! … Continue reading →

Not much going on today. It’s just plain cold. We took a walk up through the wash to the left canyon as far as the kettle and came back through the brush following the ridge. Beauty’s been coming with us … Continue reading →

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood has gotten to enjoy his career of throwing transportation department money and his weight around the various state governments. But now he’s got a new passion: Saving you from what you can’t do…though you may have … Continue reading →

Yeah, my prediction about the temperature was…kinda way off. It warmed up nice by the time I got the sand spread in the corral. Duke the He-goat is getting older and becoming a pain in the rear: He’s starting to … Continue reading →

Not as frozen-ammonia cold as yesterday morning, but with an overcast that promises we won’t warm up the way we did yesterday. I’ve gotta go shovel shit in an hour. Gotta get some sand from the wash on the way … Continue reading →

I hate it when you wake up in the morning, notice the faucet dripping, and congratulate yourself for having remembered to set it to “drip” before retiring. Then two hours later you notice that it’s no longer dripping. I really … Continue reading →

I haven’t paid much attention to Oath Keepers, because I never took no steenking oath. But I must say SR handled himself well in this clip, despite the freedom-loving Bill O trying hard to lead him off message.

Also free! This pile of two-year-old composted horseapples was, as I feared, not quite enough. I got the garden plot covered, plus about one and a half fruit trees. But that’s okay; I need to get more sand from the … Continue reading →

Check out this great post on the IRS by William Grigg, who’s been on a roll lately. One of Yancey’s supervisors considered taxpayers to be, at best, fodder for the firing squad. That official, Yancey recalls, ended a profanity-infused tirade … Continue reading →

Sunday, while the Landlady was still here, the weather got cloudy and blustery and the temperature started to fall. Yesterday was just friggin’ miserable – cold with horizontal snow flurries. I couldn’t leave W’s door propped open because the wind … Continue reading →

This morning I woke up to a comment on the Speed Camera post below, reminding me of a darker aspect of the story that I’d honestly forgotten though I did read about it at the time. Destories, a Jeep tour … Continue reading →

A monkey mask. Heh, heh, heeheehee… …since the Grand Canyon State began enforcing speed limits with roadside cameras, motorists are raging against the machines: They have blocked out the lenses with Post-it notes or Silly String. During the Christmas holidays, … Continue reading →

Lew Rockwell used to be one of my daily surf visits, back when I was supposed to be working in my gray cubicle. He tended to go off the deep end in selecting the articles he (mostly) ripped off from … Continue reading →

So S&L came back to their property this weekend after an absence of a few weeks (S’s new solar power business is really taking off – and taking time away from the Great Project. Ghost was excited to see his … Continue reading →

Landlady sent this to me this morning. U.S. Economy Grinds To Halt As Nation Realizes Money Just A Symbolic, Mutually Shared Illusion “Though raising interest rates is unlikely at the moment, the Fed will of course act appropriately if we…if … Continue reading →

…of this self-serving plug in the form of an excerpt from the postscript to my book, Songs of Bad Men and Good. “Dad,” said Robert, “Why did the people put up with things like evil rulers and SWATs and stuff? … Continue reading →

Sometimes lately I find myself adrift in an existential funk as the baseball bat of reality whacks me on the back of my head and I realize that I exist to serve the needs of dogs. Normally when I suffer … Continue reading →

It just kept me up past my bedtime. AXE COP Check out the “Ask Axe Cop” links – but only if your medication is handy. Via Tam, whom I may someday forgive.

It appears that some guy in Austin just flew his plane into an IRS-occupied building. He left a rambling suicide note on some web site. It appears only the suicide pilot was killed. There goes civil aviation, what do you … Continue reading →