- The FBI’s report on mass shootings … doesn’t actually report on mass shootings. So says John Lott.
- Attorney wants to overturn the “machine-gun ban” and then take on the NFA. In four days, he’s more than half funded. (Via David Codrea)
- Blogs are 20 years old now. That’s older than dinosaurs in ‘Net time. (H/T JB)
- Robinson Jeffers handcrafted stone cottage. Just because. (This strikes me as a very apt sort of thing for a poet to do. H/T A.G.)
- They were Irish and they were slaves. Where are our reparations???
I started blogging in ’95. Does that make me a dinosaur? Can I be an allosaurus?
🙂 If you have big enough teeth you can do anything you want.
Well, Bear, if you’re going to be an Allosaurus, then I guess that’d put me in the Paleogene someplace. Maybe I could be a sabre-toothed tiger? Yes, they were around from the Eocene epoch to the end of the Pleistocene.
While I assume that someone else would’ve come up with the same idea (and IIRC, I’ve heard other stories about the 1st “blog”), I nonetheless marvel at the level of communication enabled by blogs and related technologies. How many people have I met, even if only virtually, whom I would otherwise not know, or even know about? And how many stories would’ve not been told?
And I’d rather live in a nice stone cottage, than a 192 sq.ft. mouse house.
I’m shocked, shocked, that the FBI would be used for political purposes.
I tried blogging for a week, then discovered that, just as going to parties is better than holding parties, going to blogs to comment is better than having a blog. 🙂
Claire, if you like stone houses, you may find this interesting:
http://www.forestiere-historicalcenter.com/
http://www.roadtripamerica.com/places/forest.htm
Forestiere never found a woman to share his unusual home, IIRC. Seems like these stone houses are for hot climates. I can’t imagine them in a cold winter…
About the Irish, another book I just read recently:
http://www.amazon.com/Guerilla-Days-Ireland-Tom-Barry/dp/1781171718/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1413425828&sr=1-1&keywords=guerilla+days+in+ireland
Pardon me if I’ve mentioned it already, but it’s a good book to have read given our coming revolution.
I find it encouraging that someone is trying to get the nanny-state nightmare known as the NFA overturned. I find it more encouraging how fast those donations are piling up. It sounds like a quixotic endeavor, but I think it’s worth fighting for. It will be interesting to see what comes of it.