Sunday, April 12, 2026

Sunday morning music

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  Back to early classical music for a change.  Here's a selection of pieces for baroque (9-string) guitar by Santiago de Murcia (1673-1...
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Friday, April 10, 2026

Preparing to die

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  Ben Sasse, former US Senator and former President of the University of Florida, announced last December that he'd been diagnosed with ...
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Thursday, April 9, 2026

I see prison inmates are as determined as ever to "beat the system" - even if it kills them

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  I wasn't surprised to read this article the other day. When guards at the Cook County Correctional Facility found 57-year-old inmate ...
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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

So much for "unbreakable" codes...

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  Elon Musk dropped a bomb on the cryptocurrency market when he highlighted the impact of Google's recent announcement about the impact...
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026

Gold, lies and more lies?

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  France recently decided to repatriate the last of its gold reserves that had been stored in the USA for the past several decades.  The ...
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Monday, April 6, 2026

Memes that made me laugh 306

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  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.
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Sunday, April 5, 2026

Sunday morning music

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  I went to high school with a young man named Eric.  I'll withhold his surname, because he lived and worked as a missionary in some ver...
Friday, April 3, 2026

Heads up - shotgun bargains

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  For the benefit of anyone thinking about buying a shotgun, CDNN Sports has a flash sale on shotguns right now.  Their sales flyer can be f...
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Thursday, April 2, 2026

About those "donut" spare tires and wheels...

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  It seems that a lot of motorists never think much about the space-saver spare tires fitted to many modern vehicles, and abuse them far bey...
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Wednesday, April 1, 2026

A fascinating legacy from a bygone era

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  This report caught my imagination. In northern India's Uttar Pradesh state, a team of workers is carefully restoring a centuries-old...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2026

A friend needs our help

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  Many of you have doubtless read articles in gun magazines and related publications by Kat Hel.  Lately she's written under her married...
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The Iran war and the global economy

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  The Iran war isn't (yet) having a major impact on the US economy.  Gas prices are up, but not out of control, and since we're self...
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Monday, March 30, 2026

Memes that made me laugh 305

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  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.
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Sunday, March 29, 2026

Sunday morning music

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  Following reader interest in the video I posted last Friday , I thought some musical accompaniment would be appropriate. Those of us who ...
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Friday, March 27, 2026

I think I've met some of these critters...

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  Some of these (heavily edited) clips from karate and Kung Fu movies made me laugh out loud.  I figured they'd be a good way to brighte...
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Thursday, March 26, 2026

Not an eschatological approach...

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  Stephan Pastis provides an answer to the materialist world.  Click the image to be taken to a larger view at the "Pearls Before Swine...
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Wednesday, March 25, 2026

A very interesting analysis of the Iran war in a worldwide context

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  I'm obliged to Francis Turner for providing a link to an article titled " The Global System Rupture ".  It's a very lon...
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Looks like more difficult times bearing down on us

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  I'm not panic-mongering and declaring that we're facing TEOTWAWKI, but the impact of the Iranian war on the world economy is stead...
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026

I did not know that

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  I'm sure most of us know of the poem " Desiderata ", published by Max Ehrmann in 1927.  Its original text may be found here ...
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Monday, March 23, 2026

Memes that made me laugh 304

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  Gathered from around the Internet over the past week.  Click any image for a larger view.
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