Category: Tryin’ to reason with hurricane season

Today’s email bears the treasure of knowledge. NCSouth sends this note on the War For Southern Independence, “The battle at Yadkin River” (odd capitalization is…

You know, lately the news hasn’t been all that great. Besides the tremendous damage and death in Asia, there has been increasing terrorist activity in…

I was perusing the TLB Ecosystem list, and ran into a blog called California Patriot Watch. If you want to see the future of the…

I was looking at the stats, and noticed I’ve had visitors from usmc.mil and army.mil. Cool! Welcome to my little bit o’ the blogosphere. Come…

The Barking Moonbat Early Warning System has 16 new words for us to add to our dictionaries if not vocabularies. Number 3, cashtration, I find…

Dean Esmay has found a wonderful resource for those of us who are terminally unhip, over 40 or who have teenagers (I unfortunately fit in…

and mumbling about just how much my job stinks. These guys have a great job…

(Via Jerry Pournelle) Frank Kelly Freas, a long time friend and associate and the dean of science fiction illustrators, died peacefully in his sleep at…

Today must be the day for such thoughts… FOXNews writer Kelley Beaucar Vlahos has an excellent essay on the growth in the number of “federal…

(Via Drudge) Long-Term Plan Sought For Terror Suspects This is a worrisome development. What happens when the definition of “terrorist” changes? We were warned, shortly…

and walking from the room, mumbling to myself… House in Hamptons sells for $45 million (Via WorldNet Daily)

(Via WorldNet Daily) We really have to do something about marksmanship in this country… A homeowner fought back Thursday morning after her teenage nephew was…

Given I have the necessary qualifications as a professional psychic (a pulse, blood pressure and a positive IQ), I thought I’d enlighten my faithful readers…

From FoxNews: In dollar terms, the United States leads the world in foreign aid from government sources. But individual and corporate charity from the United…

Patrick Hughes wins the prize for Top Family Christmas Blog Post of 2004. It brings a tear to my eye–really. I guess I’m just a…

(Via The Smallest Minority) Publicola has written an excellent piece on guns, gun blogging, the AWB and the influence of all us Internet-connected gunowners. A…

…with the silly on-line quizzes. A tip o’ the virtual gimme hat to Emige with a Digital Cluebat, arrived at via Mamamontezz. What Classic Movie…

(Via Worldnet Daily.) “Author” Susan Sontag is dead at 71. Sorry, but I won’t be convinced this is a big loss. In her rage and…

(Via Jerry Pournelle. As an aside, I encourage you to read, if not subscribe to, his site. There are a lot of Very Smart People…

Interesting developments on our Friday the 13th visitor. The number of observations has dropped to 139 from the previous 165, and the probability of an…

(Via Drudge) We’ve all heard about the “Christmas Tsunami”, the destruction and loss of life (over 44,000 at last report). As usual with these events,…

I’ve edited the first post to change the impact to 4/13/2029. I’m not sure where my fevered imagination got 2030.) Good news is that they’re…

(Via The High Road) Another loser finds out that armed homeowners make poor targets: Strain and his 15-year-old nephew, both armed with handguns, forced their…

Various takes from some of the specialized media: Space.com Universe Today SpaceRef And some of the mainstream media is awake: MSNBC (quoting odds of 1-in-45…

OK, you’re going to have to see this yourselves. There may be an asteroid on the way, impact 4/13/2029. Got to wonder if that is…

Here I am, blogging on a holiday again. You gotta love the way my life works…. All us Freeholders are in the “mid-morning break”, as…

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas (or A Visit from St. Nicholas) by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house…

(Via The Register) It would seem that the UK’s Operation Ore child porn investigation has a unexpected consequence: 32 of the misbegotten so-and-sos have done…

God, I am losing it. I knew that Chris Muir was returning to Day By Day on December 1, but just let it slip away.…

For no obvious reason, I really haven’t felt like blogging much lately. Outside of a very select few, I haven’t even been reading blogs much…