Bayou Renaissance Man

The idle musings of a former military man, former computer geek, medically retired pastor and now full-time writer. Contents guaranteed to offend the politically correct and anal-retentive from time to time. My approach to life is that it should be taken with a large helping of laughter, and sufficient firepower to keep it tamed!

Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Post-op progress report

I'm feeling a bit like death warmed up, but I've survived the first 24 hours. Along the way I've learned some useful lessons. ...

A very cute pet project

Building a cat tree . . . with help from the cats. Full marks for originality. I must try that sometime. Peter

Doofus Of The Day #856

Today's award goes to an Australian fisherman . An Australian man was left bloodied and embarrassed after being "assaulted...

Monday, September 21, 2015

Ow!

I'm back home, hurting a lot and feeling like death warmed up. It was a difficult procedure to endure. According to post-op informat...

Off to the hospital

Blogging will be light until this evening. I'm on my way to the hospital for an in-patient procedure. Readers will recall my adventu...

Has Volkswagen been cheating in Europe too? And is it the only one?

News that Volkswagen had programmed its diesel cars to give false readings for air quality when exhaust emissions were tested has raised e...

Sunday, September 20, 2015

The ultimate "Talk Like A Pirate Day" collection?

CenTexTim has put together a collection of the best (?) jokes for ' Talk Like A Pirate Day ' over at his blog. Example: Th...

More fallout from China's economic crisis

Now that China's economy is running into serious difficulties, domestic demand for its products is tanking. That's leading major C...

Heh

Courtesy of The Lonely Libertarian : Peter

Around The Blogs 2015-09-20

Here's a brief collection of blog posts and articles that caught my eye over the past couple of weeks. # # # DaddyBear points out ...

Saturday, September 19, 2015

Two musical greats come together

Most people don't know that when Pink Floyd recorded their classic album ' Wish You Were Here ', they incorporated Stephane Gra...

Europe's out-of-control "refugee" crisis and its implications for the USA

I've pointed out before that Europe's so-called "refugee" crisis isn't a refugee crisis at all - it's a wave of ...

Caturday

A very tiny kitten tries out its very tiny meow. You may need to turn up the volume just to hear it! All together, now: Awwww! ...

Friday, September 18, 2015

The right to keep and arm bears?

Australian police found a bear stuffed with some . . . unusual filling material during a recent investigation. The Telegraph report...

Social justice, taken to its totalitarian extreme

We've spoken a lot here in recent months about Social Justice Warriors and their left-wing, liberal campaign to take over science fict...

Some pitfalls of private firearms sales

I regularly buy and sell firearms privately. I don't do it for a living, or even to make money at it; if one does, one's a dealer...

Thursday, September 17, 2015

Dang kidney stone again . . .

To my disgust and (considerable) pain, my kidney stone troubles have returned. Last weekend, while moving furniture and hefting boxes of b...

A shout-out to Montana Rarities and Mark Haythornthwaite

I mentioned a short while ago that I was in the process of converting up to 10% of my cash reserves into precious metals, specifically gold...

Were they playing, or hungry?

I can't make up my mind what these orcas (killer whales) were doing a few miles off San Diego when this boat came along. Were they cha...

Some sage advice from Captain Capitalism

Captain Capitalism (a.k.a. Aaron Clarey) can be foul-mouthed, misogynistic, and more than a little crude at times, and I don't recommen...

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