A little something to look forward to
William R Forstchen’s One Second After is coming to a movie theater. One Second After is the story of what happens in a small town…
Cogitate on this
A thought-provoking piece from Open Source Defense. In these times, it’s well worth reading and thinking about.
Misidentified any birds lately?
Among Greg Ellifritz’s most recent Weekly Knowledge Dump (You’re not subscribed? WFT not? Use the little blue box at the link.) items was this little…
Road to Hell, good intentions, etc.
I’ll spare you the details. It’s just been half crazy around here, but in a good way. Everyone is fine, everything is fine, but busy.…
Report from the OP, February 19, 2025
As I type, it’s snowing here in Piedmont North Carolina. It’s not a lot of snow, maybe 1-1 1/2 inches of a wet heavy snow…
The bad thing about feeling better
Is all those things that you haven’t done are still there, waiting for you. By a series of accidents that can only be the hand…
Happy Thanksgiving!
I wish all of your a Happy Thanksgiving. We’re doing the very traditional Thanksgiving supper this evening, and are keeping the grandkids so that Mom…
Aggression at the ready
(Via Greg Ellifritz) If you’ve done any formal self defense training, you’ve probably gotten some variation on the advice that you have to use force,…
Be rationally optimistic
If we can avoid blowing ourselves up or killing ourselves with some loathsome new vaccine disease, it’s possible we may just get those flying automobiles…
Still here. Just been busy.
Lenin (yes, that Lenin) said, “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” Having just experienced the truth of that…
I need some new conspiracy theories because all of my old ones are coming true Tryin' to reason with hurricane season
“We’re from the government, and we’re here to keep you helpless.”
A week into the greatest natural disaster in North Carolina’s history, the Feds are still trying to find something useful to do. Now mind you,…
Hurray! The Government’s here!
Bear in mind that title should be read as caustic sarcasm. I’ve been listening, probably rather obsessively, to the W4HTP ham radio repeater via a…
Meta doesn’t shadow ban Trump
They gave the job to their AI. This is what I got when I was invited to try to have their AI imagine “anything”. Shocked?…
Dayum
First, thanks to all of you who have inquired about our well-being in the wake of Hurricane Helene. We were only brushed by the storm,…
This was supposed to be a Report from the OP
I started a week ago writing it. It’s now saved as a draft, and hopefully, I’ll get it finished in a day or three. It…
How much is your privacy worth?
(Apologies for the prolonged absence. Migraines again/still. I’ll go into that some other time, perhaps.) We have an ever-decreasing amount of privacy left to us.…
Once again
I give you Intellectual Froglegs. Sorry, it’s not an embed. Can’t seem to get that to work this time around.
Happy Hummers
It’s been busy around here. The hot spell has broken, thanks to Hurricane Debbie, and I’ve been trying to get some things done around here.…
Coming soon to a country near you
Somewhere on this blog I wrote about how a civil war in the US would not look like the Late Unpleasantness, but more like Beruit.…
Report from the OP, July 28, 2024
Yeah, I’ve been gone for 3-ish weeks. The migraines broke out again. Uncooperative weather and not enough sleep are the culprits, I think. In doing…
Once again, The Southeast Old Threshers Reunion
The Southeast Old Threshers Reunion has been held during the week of July 4th forever, so you know it it’s going to be hot. But…
Thanks for being my guinea pigs
I’m trying out a new theme. I want something substantially like the old theme, which has unfortunately had some serious under-the-hood changes at some point.…
Joe Biden Replacement Theory
There are a lot of rumblings about the Intertubz that Ol’ SloJoe was set up. The people who put him in office by hook and…
Potato Chips Anointed in Blood
So…Mrs. Freeholder decided she wanted burgers and chips for supper. No grocery store chips in the house, but I’m a prepper. We have potatoes and…
Well, that’s an hour of my life I won’t get back
Good grief. In a move that’s rather out of character for me, I watched the first hour or so of last night’s Presidential debate. I…
“A debt crisis is coming. This time won’t be different.”
We don’t know when and we don’t know how. We can’t estimate the impact. But the Sword of Damocles hangs over us all, and that…
Report from the OP, June 16, 2024
Today makes a week I’ve been working on this post. One way or the other, the Publish button is getting hit tonight. Starting with the…
D-Day + 80 years
It’s hard to imagine, especially for someone who grew up with a Dad who was a veteran of the war in Europe, that it’s 80…
Happy Killdozer Day
(Sorry I’m darned near late to the party. Fuzzy this morning from yesterday’s migraine and then the Intertubz decided to take the afternoon off. It…