Civil war thoughts
Ol’ Remus has some thoughts on the nature of civil war and how to survive it. It’s the first 20% or so of this weeks’…
Category: Things That Make You Go Hm-m-m
Living well off the grid
This is one of those overly-produced YouTube videos that can sort of set my teeth on edge, but it’s too interesting to miss. Apparently someone…
Comments, redux
Eaton Rapids Joe notes that he’s heard about my commenting problem and that he’s heard of other cases. At least I think he’s talking about…
What’s up with commenting?
Comments have stopped working on a number of blogs such as Eaton Rapids Joe. The only commonality (other than I read them) is that they’re…
Indeed
Millennials have gotten a pretty harsh rap lately. Unfortunately, far too many of them are self-absorbed, spoiled by their parents, ill-tempered, entitled and by my…
Obviously, you want to be a Rooftop Korean
(Via Kim Du Toit at Splendid Isolation) Kurt Schlichter at Town Hall urges us all to be “Rooftop Koreans”. I would imagine that 90% of…
Let’s stray off into a new area
It’s the early 70s, and pornography is restricted to bad theaters patronized by “bad people”. Then some guy who just wants to make a film…
It appears I was wrong about legalizing drugs
I’m one of those small-l-libertarians who has always held that if we legalized drugs, the problems associated with illegal drugs would go away. Empirical evidence…
Well this could be a little…chilling
(Via SurvivalBlog) Not everyone donates to political candidates, but some of us do, at least from time to time. While this my by law be…
Data points…we’ve got data points
(Links from Drudge and elsewhere) Dammit, politics again. Democrats encourage violence against supporters of President Trump. SCOTUS upholds the travel ban that named several majority…
Do you blog? Have a Facebook account?
Then the Department of Homeland Security is probably going to be creeping on you. I suppose I should apologize for all those times I made…
Will this “Make You Go Hm-m-m”?
Jon Stokes claims to be a “gun industry insider”, and claims he goes to church on Sunday with his 9 mm tucked inside his fanciest…
We’ll all be “tinfoil hat-wearing, black-helicopter conspiracy theorists” soon
Ars Techica reports that the Directorate of State Security Department of Homeland Security is building a database to “keep tabs on over 290,000 “global news…
Who needs the geographic coordinates of your front door?
When we can geo-locate every outdoor picture on the Internet? It’s getting hard to have a reasonable conspiracy theory these days; government is so far…
Boy…
This week’s Woodpile Report is a dandy. Yes, you ought to read it yourself, but I’m going to toss out a few items that I…
Big government killed free checking; Amazon may save it
(Via Claire Wolfe) An interesting tale of how a checking account came to cost a bank $349/year to provide, why they can’t make money off…
When the antibiotic chickens come home to roost
For some years the medical community has been warning that there might well be a time when bugs would show up that no antibiotic would…
Weaponized high school students
(Via In the MIDDLE of the RIGHT) The Federalist asks “Why Did It Take Two Weeks To Discover Parkland Students’ Astroturfing?” Author David Hines lays…
Being a good neighbor
There’s a post on the SurvivalBlog about being a good neighbor in the American Redoubt. I would suggest that it’s applicable to pretty much anywhere…
Handy item when you’re debating
Or if you’d like to check your own thought processes. A list of cognitive biases.
The quality of and fact checking your decision making
(I’m trying to close some of the jillion tabs I’ve been keeping open in my browser for weeks. I believe this one comes via Charles Chu.)…
Remington filing for bankruptcy?
This just dropped in from a dark and rainy sky. Remington Outdoor Company Inc, one of the largest U.S. makers of firearms, has reached out…
Against the backdrop of a 1000 point drop in the Dow, I’m going to toss this into your lap
I expect that most of the folks who happen by this particular spot on the Intertubz have at least heard of Strauss and Howe’s book…
And so we get this missive from the ARRL’s President on the Board of Director’s imbroglio
Rick Roderick, K5UR, has been kind enough to notice that the natives are restless. Or, as he puts it, we are listening to “…an organized…
More on the ARRL and the Board of Directors’ Code of Conduct
It’s weird how things work. I had looked earlier this week for more information on the subject of the ARRL’s new Board of Directors’ Code…
Michael, Michael, in the morning…
This story arrived in my inbox this morning via The Email List That Shall Not Be Named. I’ve never heard it before, but it’s all…
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Upping your game
I want your to look closely at the frame capture included with this article on an armed robbery that took place here in the AO. Seeing…
Lack of situation awareness
Defined. What on earth were these people thinking?
Well, I’ve heard you’re supposed to keep busy in retirement
Retiree, 70, made ricin, tested it on neighbors, feds say. Edit, 12/2/2017: FoxNew apparently doesn’t care for links from Blogger. (Yet another reason to ditch…
Hacking pharmaceuticals
(Via the Drudge Report) I’m not wild about the guy’s politics or a lot of other things about him, but the concept of of a…