Yet they’re now pushing ahead with rule changes (the infamous bump-stock ban) based on weapons whose interior workings they never saw. Not allowed to see. By whom? How? Why? What’s the term for this form of government? Bad (of course). Bureaucratic. Arbitrary. Stupid. Fiat-driven. Incompetent. Tyrannical. Agenda-based. Incompetently arbitrary. Arbitrarily incompetently fiat-driven. Of the Star Chamber. Evil. Incompetently arbitrarily evil. On the other hand, you’ve got to love an email that opens, “Oh, and I sued the FBI yesterday, as well …” Len Savage (writer of said email) and Stephen Stamboulieh, attorney extraordinaire, are on the case once again.
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Yesterday at the American Partisan blog, Kit Perez posted a piece on strategic relocation. She promises more on that topic. I know she’s already got more because what she posted was part of a book she and I explored writing on personal freedom. We put together a chapter. Then, despite getting positive feedback from a couple of reality checkers, we decided not to pursue the project for now. The conceit of the book was that we would write point-counterpoint. For instance, in the chapter on location, she’d write on the advantages, problems, and strategies of moving, and I’d write on…
16 CommentsLaddie and friends have arrived at Joel’s Gulch. Nothing but the bare notice so far, since it was late when they got there. But all who made it happen can be proud of themselves. I’m sure we’ll be hearing fun updates soon. —– Good news is most welcome in a summer that’s had too much of the other kind. The week MamaLiberty died, I learned a local acquaintance had also departed the world. S was in his early 60s when he died of cancer. I never knew S well, but I’d known him for decades and done business with him.…
7 CommentsYesterday was pleasant and relaxing. But there was this one startling moment. We were about to get out of the car at one of our stops when Furrydoc’s smartphone suddenly screeched with a voice crying, “Alexa, play _____” (with the blank part being a particular streaming song list from Amazon). The voice belonged to one of Furrydoc’s office staffers, and she recalled the moment the previous day they were all trying in vain to get Alexa to deliver them a little Jimmy Buffett for their Friday afternoon wind-down. I think merely talking to Alexa is creepy enough. Furrydoc — having…
15 CommentsSorry again for lite blogging. If it’s not days of house-project work, it’s a day of very busy “rest.” Today Furrydoc and I traveled out of town for an afternoon at farmers markets, bulk-food stores, and veggie vendors. It doesn’t make for the most compelling blogging, but it does make for a pleasant interlude. The best of it was a little coffee house where we had an unusual lunch. We each ordered a grilled chicken-apricot sandwich. Yes, chicken-apricot. Which I already knew to be a great combo. But on a sandwich? Better, that wasn’t the only surprising combination between those…
2 CommentsToday in 1984 Red Dawn hit theaters. I never liked the movie much, but you can’t fight history; it has become an icon of American resistance. So on its 34th anniversary, here’s some Red Dawn trivia.
10 CommentsIf I owe you an email (or for that matter, a blog post), please bear with me. We’re having another mini-summer and I’ve been out taking advantage of it. Today I scraped and repainted a few peeling fascia boards and set up a 60-foot overhead cable dog trolley (in hopes of eventually replacing Ava’s deplorable makeshift yard). Just as I was conditioning her to her newly enlarged (“But what’s that thing hanging over me, Mom?”) space, the lumberyard truck arrived with two yard guys and 168 long-awaited 8x16x1.5 concrete blocks. The blocks are as ugly as … well, as plain…
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