How to hurt the nannies?
Make ’em pay: Officials in a Northern California school district might not think Tiggers are such wonderful things after agreeing to pay $95,000 in lawyers’…
“…absolutely nothing illegal…”
(Via the Drudge Report) “Reverend” Al Sharpton is reportedly on an FBI videotape cutting a deal with a fundraiser in a New York hotel room.…
Way to go, Joe
Joe Namath, who won a national championship with the Crimson Tide in 1964 but quit school before going on to become a pro football great,…
Read this book
(Via Gun Talk) I have to listen to Gun Talk via podcast, since no radio station here will dare to carry a show about *gasp*…
What a wimp
(Via the Drudge Report) State police say a teacher at Booth Free School barricaded herself in a classroom Wednesday when she mistook someone singing a…
High geekery–Time Nuts
OK, this gets a 9.0 on the WayCool-o-Meter. Amateur Time Hackers Play With Atomic Clocks at Home Be sure to catch Part 2 when it…
Santa Claus, data thief
Well, sort of. At least it’s nice to know that other countries have people who are fully as stupid as some of our citizens. Santa…
Something you’re not going to see a lot of in the Lame-stream Media
I haven’t blogged much about the recent spate of shootings. Others, such as Say Uncle, Michael Bane and others have been there since the beginning,…
December 7, 1941
“…a date which will live in infamy…” Today, we remember the attack on Pearl Harbor. (Click the link and then just sit there. Turn the…
Absolutely and utterly NSFW
(Found on Timebomb 2000) And if you click on it, you might want to cover your keyboard, too.
Tragedy compounding tragedy
John Lott hits it out of the park: A Google news search using the phrase “Omaha Mall Shooting” finds an incredible 2,794 news stories worldwide…
DVD sales are off
Hollyweird is worried that sales of DVD movies are tanking. As a public service, The Freeholder will enlighten you Hollyweirdos on why this is happening.…
Warm and cozy
One of the reasons that Mrs. Freeholder and I were able to agree on this particular house to be The Freehold v2 was the existence…
Didja ever hear the one…
About the mule between two bales of hay? He was so dumbfounded over his choice, he starved to death. It would seem the eco-idiots are…
Was Ben Franklin wrong?
“Beer is proof that God loves us and wants us to be happy.” So sayeth Benjamin Franklin, at least. However, the eco-fools who work for…
Damn speculators
Will someone explain to me how a pipeline fire justifies a run-up in the price of crude oil? Yeah, yeah, I know the argument that…
Now there’s an idea…
A 400-year-old book covered in a sheet of wrinkled human skin is going under the hammer in a bizarre auction. Now, believe it or not,…
Sometimes progress…isn’t
OK, time for some computer geekery, and a little helpful advice from The Freeholder. Long-time readers know that I work in the computer industry, doing…
Brother, can you spare a dime
OK, fellow gunnies, time to put our money where our mouth is. Everyone knows that Heller v. DC has made it to the Supreme Court.…
And here we go
Boys and girls, for better or worse, we’ve gotten what we’ve asked for–SCOTUS has granted cert on Heller v. DC. This is a high stakes…
What’s that music I hear?
(Via the Drudge Report) It might be the Fat Lady singing: When Tom Brokaw, an old-time mainstream media figure in his own right, says he…
Rednecks
I had to do some research for a web forum reply to someone concerning the use of the term “redneck”. Luckily, I remembered these three…
I didn’t sign no freakin’ contract!
John Walker at Fourmilog has apparently been considering the subject of governments and the coercive powers thereof. (If I were governments, I’d be worried. The…
Exceptional professionalism is a job requirement
Before someone want to bash me as a “cop hater”, let me point out a little something–if you are in a position of exceptional responsibility,…
Hm-m-m
Here’s an interesting site, the Grandfather Economic Report. There’s a lot there to read, but if you’re short on time, look at some of the…
Updating the blogroll
I keep a “Blogs for consideration” folder in my bookmarks. Every time I find a blog that’s interesting, I chuck the URL in there, and…
Make ’em prove they own it
A federal judge in Ohio has ruled against a longstanding foreclosure practice, potentially creating an obstacle for lenders trying to reclaim properties from troubled borrowers…
Sorry, but we don’t want your business
(Via Kim du Toit) STI, purveyor of some of the nicer specimens of John Moses Browning’s 1911 design, has decided that California is not a…
Fresh from the Boiling Frogs Department
(Via the Drudge Report) Demarest School District Installs Laptop Surveillance Videos Monitored, Operated By Local Police I don’t even need to say it, do I?