Author Archives: Joel

I remember actually being angry when I first heard this parody, which just shows how naive I was back then. The older I grow, the funnier it gets. Joan Baez is the nameI’ve a house by the seaMy songs come … Continue reading →

Driving on public roads is a problem for me, since my papers are not in order. A simple traffic stop can be a career move, and I avoid them carefully. It’s been this way for many years, but I did … Continue reading →

I got back to the property safe last night, and was met in the driveway by W’s two girl dogs. Everybody else waited patiently for rescue from Gitmo by friendly forces, but Beauty and Redgirl apparently made an early break … Continue reading →

I’ve posted this lament before. Once in a while (as seldom as I can arrange) I need to leave my quiet desert home and go to a city. And I always find it terrifying. Today’s one of those days. Since … Continue reading →

“There are so many wrongs/To right with tedious songs…” Johnny Cougar for Senator? What do you say to that?

…Your friend. It was a scene straight from a parent’s worst nightmare: A critically injured son trapped in a vehicle draped with live wires, an anxious father and two police officers described by witnesses as having an “attitude.” The result: … Continue reading →

That photo represents a landmark in my Linux use and more time spent than I care to confess to. But this old beardo did get her done.

Item #178: Backup backup caches. I don’t fret much over “bug-out bags” and such, because I’m already where I want to be at The End Of The World As We Know It. Howsomever, in the quiet paranoid reveries of the … Continue reading →

Get in line!

This MP3 is distinctly NSFW. Also, it’s really weird. Dan Rather sued the “creators” over it, which should tell you something about its merits right there. Scroll down the page for the audio.

Derek Sheriff has written a wonderful essay on Lew Rockwell titled “The Untold History of Nullification: Resisting Slavery”. I highly recommend you read the whole thing. Public School civics courses, when they mention Nullification at all, invariably tie it to … Continue reading →

There’s a bill in the Wyoming legislature that would remove the license requirement for (some) Wyoming residents to carry concealed weapons. That’s a good thing, no doubt. I understand there’s a similar bill in Arizona that might pass. Good thing, … Continue reading →

A bad, bad era. I pay as little attention to electoral politics on this blog as possible, but some things can’t be escaped or at least – as in this case – deserve a good swift kick in passing. This … Continue reading →

…on the Girard raid in Taxachusetts: “It’s very important to me that when [the po-po] do my junk-on-the-bunk display, folks on internet gun forums will say “Okay, that is an arsenal.”

THIS is how to snark. The bigger problem, of course, is practical. Regulating precipitation – or even banning it entirely – won’t actually stop snow from falling. Virtually all meteorologists agree that, given certain atmospheric conditions, snow will continue to … Continue reading →

I prostrate myself in chastened servility, Your PeaceOfficeriness. Truly, I writhe blinded by the splendor of your special niche in society. PS: Please stop protecting me, shithead.

Get a load of this. Since it is unacceptable for people to believe that government agents will carry out paramilitary raids to confiscate firearms, a paramilitary force was sent to Girard’s home to confiscate his firearms.

I told you I might drop off the air because of pure cluelessness. When said affliction showed up, it turned out to be so stupid and so simple I don’t know whether to be mad at myself or the fools … Continue reading →

…that threaten to send you screaming into the street. It’s fortunate at the moment that I have no street to scream in. Wanna really screw somebody up? Just transpose the “OK” and “CANCEL” buttons, as Mint has perversely done. I … Continue reading →

From LRC, Mark Crovelli’s article “What Has ‘The Union” Ever Done for Colorado?” It’s a (biased, granted) history of the many ways and times the Federal government has gotten Coloradoans killed in the name of “protecting” them from threats that, … Continue reading →