Conditional
I've noticed something!That behavior that's unacceptable when it's done by Person A is suddenly A-OK when performed by Person B.Just list all of the things that were anathema under Bush, but are hunky...
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Purple!
The stock set from Cavalry Manufacturing arrived just a minute ago!This color is insanely hard to get to show up the color that it actually is. See how it looks blue below?The Cav pistol grip is full...
View ArticleTrigger Pull
Marv bought a trigger pull scale.I borrowed it.The results are interesting.The Ruger Mk I breaks at 2 lb. 4 oz.The Finnish Kiv/28-30 snaps at 2 lb. 6 oz. That's amazingly light for an old bolt action...
View ArticleEarth Day
I celebrated Earth Day by driving The Boy to his Special Olympics training session in the Biscayne.The Biscayne gets about 14 mpg in town.I let it sit and idle for the hour or so The Boy was in the...
View ArticleI Am A Bad Person
When you almost ram into me charging out of the check out lane and don't say excuse me...When you stand in doorway of the store, blocking the exit...When you careen around the parking lot going just...
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Manhood
You know: a heterosexual man who owns a kilt, watches My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and owns these guns:Is someone who is secure enough in their manhood that they just aren't going to be bothered...
View ArticleExperiment
I have a take-home project for y'all.For a week, when someone is rude to you, be rude right back at them.When someone is clueless and slams into you, don't say "excuse me", say "watch where you're...
View ArticleMixed Metaphor
Just saw the new Total Recall.It's like MC Esher meets Blade Runner in the Matrix, with a guest appearance of I Robot.
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Pay Attention
When you spend your money on entertainment be sure you know where your dollar is going.Like checking to see if the author of the story is a card carrying socialist? Do you really want to pay for that?...
View ArticleAn Überpost Well Worth Your Time
Kevin has fired another suborbital out of the park.Read the entire thing and notice all the links.This is your one stop shop for rebutting just about any proponent of gun-control.Yes, it's a giant wall...
View ArticleMarketplace Fairness Act
Time to dust off the moldy Supreme Court rulings...In the days of yore, the Supreme Court held that interstate tariffs are unconstitutional because such is the bailiwick of the Feds not the states.The...
View ArticleDammit!
I've become "THAT GUY".I didn't and don't want to be HIM.I'll be offline while I grapple with what to do about it.
View ArticleStellar Cartography
Traveller's maps are two dimensional.The universe is, by and large, three dimensional.It only started bugging me when I bought GDW's 2300 AD. That game had an excellent map describing a sphere some 50...
View ArticleWattah!
I've made a big change to my next Traveller game.The huge tanks of hydrogen will be replaced with water.The main reason is that it's not 1977 any more.In 1977 it likely seemed very reasonable to the...
View ArticleYou're Not Fooling Anyone
"I'll ask my wife/girlfriend/significant other..." means no.You know it means no.I know it means no.Let's just stop insulting each other's intelligence and say no.
View ArticleMoments
At present I really want a dish from a city I no longer live in from a restaurant which no longer exists.House of Chen's kung-pao chicken sounds delightful.
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Color Coded
Because 25-round 6.8x43mm magazines are externally identical to the 30-round 5.56x45mm ones; but not interchangeable, you have to come up with a fast, easy way to tell them apart.So I went with putting...
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