Old Dog And All
Much to his dismay, I think our dog is finished with people-food.He needed to go out every two hours all damn night.At least he was waking me up.
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It bubbled up again.Eric Shaw, who was not doing anything criminal in a place he had a right to be, was killed by someone who was never prosecuted.The only penalty that Jeffrey Gillaspie suffered was...
View ArticleLightning
It's an interesting confluence that the F-35 is the Lightning II in both US and British service.The first US Lightning is the P-38.The first UK Lightning is the supersonic interceptor from...
View ArticleRemember Way Back When
A US President was forced to resign over being involved in a criminal activity?Presiding over a B&E and an illegal wiretap used to be considered something pretty serious.But all the damn dirt on...
View ArticleIt's Wrong
It should not be summer when the Stanley Cup is decided.It should not be after Halloween when the World Series wraps up.I'm not even a sports fan and I can tell this is wrong.
View ArticleBudget Night Vision
You do know that a flashlight is night vision, right?It lets you see in the dark, in full resolution and color.It's near miraculous how cheap, durable, bright and long-lasting such things have...
View ArticlePedals
With several people linking to Lone Wolf's video about "How Does A Glock Work?" for some reason I am reminded of an exchange from the film Morons from Outer Space."How does your spacecraft...
View ArticleCaptured By Hydra
Watching the movie Anthropoid, no it's not science fiction it's about Operation Anthropoid, and the two spies who're sent to perform the assassination are captured.Toby Jones has a part. He's standing...
View ArticleCivility
Many of the manners so cherished by some fall directly from there being a tradition of dueling in Western Civilization.Elaborate manners developed to keep one from ending up dead from giving offense or...
View ArticlePendant Mode Active
Tension is pulling.Compression is pushing.Torsion is twisting.I am at a loss to identify a single coil spring on any gun I own that's actually in tension. Leaf springs are just different, but most...
View ArticleProcess Rather Than Goal
There's a few things that I enjoy the process of rather than the goal.Doing the prep for cooking is one such thing. I eschew all those labor saving devices my otherwise technophiliac tendencies should...
View ArticleBroadsword
GURPS identifies several specific swords by fairly modern names.For a long time there was rarely any term but "sword" for any given sword.To distinguish between different kinds of swords descriptive...
View ArticlePolice Violence
Something interesting has happened in my county.Our Sheriff, has long stated that there isn't much police violence at all, and all of it that there is has been fully justified.His department long...
View ArticleFallback
Today is the day we wrest back the hour stolen from us in March!Eight months is "daylight savings" and barely four is "standard" time.Where I come from, what you spend most time with is standard.
View ArticleThings That You End Up Looking Up
Watched a film, The Siege of Jadotville, where a character claims the uranium for the US atomic bombs used on Japan came from Katanga, Belgian Congo.It's true! Mostly.But it wasn't like they decided...
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Arts And Crafts
The Boy's bowling league does give aways for the "kids" every year.We try to make it something special and cool.That's a belt clip for a water bottle! I bought the purple one at a gun-show.I made the...
View ArticleI Think I Need More Scotch
"Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, who recently named Merkel as her favorite world leader, has frequently indicated that acceptance of refugees is an important reaffirmation of America’s...
View ArticleI Get It
I hit this click-bait link.I understand why they don't give out the ring and jacket for someone who's deceased before they're added to the hall of fame.While such heirlooms can be (and are) items of...
View ArticleJust Shoot It
I've got one for you Hollyweird. Just do Starship Troopers like the book and let the market decide if it's any good.Don't listen to the people who've never read it.Don't listen to the people who think...
View ArticleDid You Know
Tomorrow is election day?I have over 20 emails telling me that tomorrow is election day.I have text messages on my No-Call-List listed phone telling me tomorrow is election day.Every other commercial...
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