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!

Sunday, July 26, 2026

Sunday morning music

This month marks the 50th anniversary of one of the oddest musicals I've ever heard of; but also one that I thoroughly enjoyed. How ...

Friday, July 24, 2026

The Saudi nuclear program: what else did anyone expect?

I'm cynically amused by the brouhaha over the US deal with Saudi Arabia to help that country develop a peaceful - underline, peaceful ...

Thursday, July 23, 2026

New business opportunity?

Stefan Pastis does it again! Click the image to be taken to a larger version at the "Pearls Before Swine" Web page. I sense a b...

Wednesday, July 22, 2026

Be careful what you pick up on or near a battlefield...

There's a video on X.com showing a Russian army officer opening some of the candies and chocolate that have been found in the battle z...

Tuesday, July 21, 2026

Brainwashed ideology runs headlong into common sense

I'm going to embed a video clip below. It shows Gina Plata-Nino, the Director of SNAP Policy and Advocacy at the Food Research and Ac...

Er... about those berries...

I was amused to see this list over at Raconteur Press's Substack . Click the image for a larger view. I've used literally all of ...

Monday, July 20, 2026

Memes that made me laugh 320

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

Sunday, July 19, 2026

Sunday morning music

And now for something completely different, as they say in the classics! Ernest Tomlinson , who died in 2015 at the age of 91, was an Eng...

Friday, July 17, 2026

So much for meat and water!

I'm sure most of my readers have grown used to vegetarians vegans anti-meat activists trumpeting that it wastes far too much water t...

Thursday, July 16, 2026

A Texas cathedral???

I had to laugh at Japanese visitor Nobunaga's description of his first time at a Buc-ee's gas station. A couple of excerpts: I ...

Wednesday, July 15, 2026

Adventures with medicine, part XVIII and counting...

Regular readers will recall my misadventures with medical bureaucracy in May, and the follow-up (mis)adventures last month. Yesterday, Tu...

Tuesday, July 14, 2026

When large-scale weather threatens large-scale consequences

I'm sure most of us have read news reports about the imminent return of the climate phenomenon known as El Nino , possibly in the form...

Monday, July 13, 2026

Memes that made me laugh 319

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

Sunday, July 12, 2026

Sunday morning music

A few weeks ago I put up Mike Oldfield's 2008 quasi-classical album "Music Of The Spheres" . In a comment to that post, rea...

Friday, July 10, 2026

So much for the New York City property market...

This news is several days old, but it only caught my eye yesterday. Months before New York City approved a historic two-year rent freeze,...

Thursday, July 9, 2026

Some amazing aerial photography

Submissions for the annual International Aerial Photographer competition closed at the end of April. A short-list of 101 best images has...

Wednesday, July 8, 2026

Not such apex predators

I had to laugh at this blog post from fellow South African expatriate Kim du Toit. He and I see eye to eye on many issues (not surprisin...

A Grail Gun for collectors

Readers with any connection to the shooting sports and/or law enforcement will recognize the name of Bill Jordan . His accomplishments ar...

Tuesday, July 7, 2026

I smell a large, hairy, stinking rat...

Guess what? The woman suspected of trying to blow up a Ukrainian tycoon in Monaco has been found shot dead near Kyiv. Anastasiia Berezovsk...

More thoughts on America's 250th birthday

I was reminded recently of William J. H. Boetcker (1873-1962). He's perhaps best known for his 1916 pamphlet, "The Ten Cannots...

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