Stre-e-e-tch
(Via the Drudge Report) You can add tickets for “inches over the stop line” to the “1 MPH over the speed limit” tickets as a…
Easy fix
A 14-year-old Florida student who hugged his friend was suspended as a result of his middle school’s zero-tolerance no-hugging policy, myFOXorlando.com reported. You know, I…
“paper money is a crime”
Well, yeah–but you should read the whole thing. It sounds a bit Occupy Wall Streetish in a few places, but it’s worth it.
Well that didn’t take long
Not even as long as I had expected. Wheels Come Off Euro Plan in Just Five Days I see nothing, and I do mean nothing,…
Hey! Anyone seen a gun blog around here?
It’s been too long since we talked about guns. It’s been too long since I bought a new gun, and too long since I managed…
Fixated? Indeed.
It has been noted to me that I have developed something of a fixation with the message of Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged. I plead…
Let me see if I’ve got this straight
If I’m against Obama because I think he’s a socialist/incompetent/any old reason at all, I’m a racist. And if I’m for Herman Cain because I…
D.D. Harriman…paging Mr. D.D. Harriman…
(Hm-m-m…another meme for this blog?) NASA has shifted its goals from returning to the moon to visiting an asteroid or even Mars, but not everyone…
Occupy Wall Street gets occupied
(Via Facebook) It seems that the Occupy crowdhas itself been occupied–by the “professional homeless” (hell of a profession). You have to love it when the…
My Big Fat Greek Haircut
(Via the Drudge Report) Reuters is reporting that there is an agreement for the private holders of Greek bonds to take a 50% “haircut”. In…
If you loved it before, you’ll love it more now
The US House of Representatives is back with a newer and less palatable version of last year’s Internet “anti-piracy” act. I still get a big…
“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: How to run an Occupied world
(Via the Drudge Report) So…if Occupied had its way, how would we all live? We’d all communicate with hand signals to hold down the noise.…
Rule 4
(Via the Drudge Report) It’s important, people. A man hunting with his grandson accidentally killed a U.S. Marine due to return to duty this week,…
Down to the True Believers, apparently
(Via the Drudge Report) Like this wasn’t predictable. They put on a gritty war face and insist they are more determined now than ever, but…
“Atlas Shrugged” was a Warning, not a Manual: Looters, looters everywhere
Nor any stop to think. “We are entitled to more money from the only industry in the county – Jack Daniel’s distillery,” said Charles Rogers,…
The lack of blogging
Has been engendered by being busy… and totally indifferent. Things are as they have been for some time–our move toward whatever awaits us continues, and…
Meanwhile, in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts
Fall holidays are banned as “insensitive”. Soon to be followed by a ban on the “Winter Solstice Celebration”, no doubt.
Satire to be made illegal?
(Via the Drudge Report) Only if it’s satire of the TSA. I guess they’re getting a bit touchy these days….
We told you the damn thing wouldn’t work
(Via the Drudge Report) It seems that the socialists are being forced to take a reality break. But a central design flaw dogged CLASS. Unless…
The best thing you will read today
Most like tomorrow, and the next day; perhaps to the end of the month. Glen’s story…. a cautionary tale for shooters Read this one carefully.…
When hoodies are banned…
(Via the Drudge Report) Only criminals will have hoodies. Or hats, or helmets. The Crazy Years indeed.
We’ve been invaded!
By robots! That’s it–that’s the spaceship looking thing over there! Seriously, though, it’s Roomba 530. With 5 cats and a family who isn’t all that…
I’m wicked, I admit it
But did he say it in a high-pitched voice? The man accused of trying to blow up a Detroit-bound airliner with explosives hidden in his…
It’s heating up
I’m not trying to cover the whole Fast and Furious thing; others are doing it far better than I could. However, I do want to…
Paging Dr. Pinero…paging Dr. Hugo Pinero…
(Via the Drudge Report) A blood test that is either “a predictor of how long I will live, a waste of time or a handy…
I guess it isn’t breaking and entering if the police do it
(Via the Drudge Report) Especially if they have good intentions. Police were willing to stir-up a little proactive controversy to warn folks they were easy…
One man’s gardening methodology
(Via a Facebook friend) John Quesenberry moves deliberately along a straight row in his garden. “This is my tiller,” he said as he pulls the…