Time for a Public Service Announcement
(Image and links via the Drudge Report) This is not a joke. If you’re in the path of this hurricane your life is in danger.…
Eating my words
Well, to today to an extent. Eventually I get to eat them all. Last week I was smirking about how I like making Google foot…
A modest proposal
(With apologies to Jonathan Swift. Link to “Rebel yell: Southern nationalists again crying ‘secede'” via the Drudge Report) I’ve discussed the concept that we’re in…
Besides President Trump and his policies
Here’s something else the West Coast liberals can worry about: volcanoes.
Since we were speaking of Google
Breitbart is having a multi-part interview piece with those who are or have been behind enemy lines at Teh Googlez. Obviously there’s no way for…
I enjoy making Google publish this
Perhaps you’ve heard ofthe latest little row at Google—an employee had the temerity to publish his thoughts on the Google monoculture and suddenly is he…
Will Amateur Radio become extinct?
It’s an interesting question that has been thrashed around the table more than a few times. I know that my club is in trouble–our youngest…
It seems the Deep State just won’t stop
(Via Michael Bane on Facebook) I’d really like to write about something else. Almost anything else, really. But you can’t pay attention to current events…
Let’s get some excercise
Since my semi-enforced retirement, I have been attempting, with mixed results, to do something about my physical shape. While round is a shape, it isn’t…
Why the Tier 1 guys love their big SUVs
Ars Technica has a rather fluffy piece on operators and their love for big SUVs. As a Suburban owner, I can tell you that it’s…
We told you that “Smart Guns” are a dumb idea. But No-o-o-o!
It isn’t like the gun grabbers and Progressivists haven’t been warned, but it’s nice to have millions if not tens or hundreds of millions of…
Not dead
Just…pleasantly busy. You could say that I’ve failed retirement, such as it was. A ham radio buddy of mine called me (oddly enough, not on…
Driving a ground rod
Ground rods are one of those facts of life that anyone who deals with them usually dislikes. Whether you use a sledge hammer, a rotary…
More on the battlesight zero
(Via Gunsite on Facebook) A while back I wrote a bit on the subject of what distance to zero your AR. Just for giggles, here’s…
Knot on my watch
I’ve heard knots called “an orderly tangle of lines”. While that might be true, the knowledge of a few useful knots is something that is…
Happy Birthday, America!
Here’s a little light reading as you wait for the grill to heat up.
I have got to close some of these tabs
(As usual in this situation, I forget where these come from. I’m sure more than one was from Michael Bane on Facebook.) I was hoping…
Winning
I ran across this article this morning. It has three interesting points about the changing face of gun ownership in the US. It seems 2/3…
What is it with these Canadian
(As found on Gab.) Snipers. 11,319 feet for the record. Plus an unknown number on lives saved by his work.
The GOP says its going to get strapped; the left loses its collectivist mind
I should have seen it coming–really I should. When I posted this morning about GOP Congressman Thomas Massie introducing a bill calling for concealed carry permit…
DC reciprocity?
After the recent shooting at a GOP practice for a charity baseball game, some folks I know were predicting moves by Congress–on both sides of…
Zeroing your AR-15
It’s a deceptively simple subject. If you’ve ever been in the service of Uncle Sugar, he says 25 meters and you’re done–or at least he…
Brevard County (FL) Sheriff Wayne Ivey Gets It
I wish I could embed this video, but it’s on Facebook, so yeah. (Thanks to True Blue Sam for the lesson in how to embed videos…
Just in case you’ve been wondering
I have to admit that all this Alt-this and Alt-that have had me a tad confused. Just what is the Alt-Right anyway, and what, all…
Bullet-proofing
(Via SurvivalBlog) How about a product you can mix on site and apply to your walls to make them bullet proof? If that sounds like…
June 6, 1944
Once again, we remember the men of Operation Overlord. Here you see one of the iconic photos of that day, taken by Robert Capa, of…
A bit of progress (Putting up a 6m/2m/70cm beam antenna, Part 4)
Yes, in the fading light of day, there it is in all its glory–an antenna mast. Some progress has finally been achieved. 🙂 Actually, I…
The definition of fun
At least for today, the definition of fun is shooting a 14″ steel gong at 100 yards with a suppressed .22 pistol, from a rest,…
I was away from the Intertubz
But forgetting about today and the nature of it? I don’t think so.