Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Safely back home

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We arrived home early this afternoon, to a rapturous reception from our cat.  I was very tired, and took a nap immediately.  I hate to have...
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Almost home

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Miss D. and I are overnighting in the bustling metropolis of Forrest City, Arkansas .  Tomorrow we'll drive the last four hours to get...
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Monday, January 19, 2015

Back on the road

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Miss D. and I said goodbye to Phlegmmy and Lawdog this morning over heaping plates of breakfast at a local hostelry (enhanced by the sme...
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Sunday, January 18, 2015

A bunch of overfed bloggers

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Phlegmfest 2015 is in full swing.  Many blogging friends have converged on the home of the lovely Phlegm and Lawdog , including (in alphab...
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Saturday, January 17, 2015

Stuck in the modern Dark Ages

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I'm not dead - just stuck without Internet access most of the time.  I'll try to put up another blog post or two later today.  Unti...
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Friday, January 16, 2015

They're like crack in a jar!

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I'm writing these words from a hotel in Arkansas, between Little Rock and Fort Smith, where Miss D. and I are spending the night on ou...
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Thursday, January 15, 2015

Some more windy landings

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This video was shot at Leeds Bradford Airport (the highest in England) on January 9th.  Looks like an interesting ride . . . Leeds ...
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015

On the road again

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Miss D. and I will be on the road to northern Texas tomorrow, to attend a small gathering of bloggers and friends.  We'll be a bit dif...
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Diversity = Catch-22

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In the wake of the Paris massacre last week, many sources are complaining that diversity is a lost cause and can never work.  Fred Reed...
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So much for wireless keyboards

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For years I've refused to use wireless keyboards because I believed their signals could be intercepted and decoded by keylogging softwa...
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Doofus Of The Day #810

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Today's award goes to Haribo for the sugar-free version of their Gummy Bears .  The Atlantic reports : In all fairness, you were war...
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015

About that hippo . . .

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Readers may remember that in late November I posted a photograph of an allegedly yawning hippopotamus , and pointed out that it wasn't ...
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Beavercreek . . . Ferguson . . . New York . . . now Cleveland?

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The pattern of over-aggressive, overbearing policing revealed (not so much in the incidents themselves as in all the circumstances surround...
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Monday, January 12, 2015

Doofus Of The Day #809

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Today's award goes to this mind-boggling example of your tax dollars at work (NOT!). The National Science Foundation (NSF) is givi...
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Practical defensive readiness

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I've been having an e-mail exchange with a correspondent who asked for advice on which handguns to select for himself and his family.  ...
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Sunday, January 11, 2015

A reminder from Captain Tightpants

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My blogbuddy Captain Tightpants reminds us via a link that we need to welcome home our combat veterans and do all we can to help them fit...
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That must be one heck of a waistband!

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I dropped in at the local gun show this morning to look for some ammunition and a low-cost fabric holster.  I wanted the latter to carry a ...
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Religious terrorism: It's not just Islam

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I've been annoyed and frustrated (yet again) by those blaming all of Islam for the actions of fundamentalist extremist Muslim terrorist...
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Saturday, January 10, 2015

Benjamin Franklin has been proved right yet again

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Two quotes by Benjamin Franklin have entered the lexicon of American political discourse.  Said at different times and referring to differ...
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Cooper on 'Firearms and Personal Defense'

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Courtesy of a link at Gunalizer, here's an hour-long talk (including question time) by the late, great Jeff Cooper , delivered at a co...