The Daily Kos has proposed the detailed firearm confiscation plan the NYT and other more delicate souls have been tippy-toeing around. It’s comprehensive. It’s brutal. It takes no prisoners multi-millions of prisoners. With no due process. After a mere quick skim I can spot a dozen reasons that while it would turn streets bloody from Miami, Florida, to Homer, Alaska… it still wouldn’t damnwell work. If “work” means eliminate firearms. For eliminating firearms, it’s completely, wildly laughable. Though I admit it would certainly be excellent at creating both civil war and tyranny. How ’bout a Commentariat fisking, guys? Go for…
Author: Claire
How to escape the culture of mass deception (via RLW in comments). Written from a conservative, not libertarian, perspective. But the basic point is good. Thailand investigates the U.S. ambassador for lèse-majesté — because he criticized lèse-majesté arrests. Never, but never, ever, did I think anybody would say this about marijuana. Never. Ugh. Big data to be the next trillion-dollar business? Oh, please … Socks. Containing urine. Circulated by walking. Generating electricity. Just because you’re inept and unprepared, buddy, doesn’t mean the rest of us are. (Still, the certification process sounds horribly inadequate if it was anything like he describes.)…
The Miskatonic Manuscript
By Vin Suprynowicz
323 pages, Mountain Media, December 11, 2015
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Amazon.com $5.99 Kindle ebook
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When last we saw rare-book dealer Matthew Hunter and the beautiful, dauntless Chantal Stevens they were searching for the lost testament of James, a much-rumored scripture by the brother of Jesus, a document powerful forces would kill to suppress.
That was in Vin’s first Hunter-Stevens novel.
Now they’re back. Back at their shop, Books on Benefit in Providence, Rhode Island. Back with their distinctly motley crew of friends and associates (including a writer of vampire tales who may take his role just a little too seriously and a small person named Skeezix whose uncanny affinity with cats makes me wonder about his genetic heritage).
And of course they’re back to searching for another rare manuscript. This time there’s nothing biblical about it — unless you worship at the altar of H.P. Lovecraft, whose work the lost document is. Some of the characters in The Miskatonic Manuscript literally do worship at that altar, being members of the Church of Cthulu.
Tide got a tad high on the estuary this afternoon. This is where the parking lot of a seafood cannery meets the river. Doesn’t usually meet it quite this intimately. The dock on the left (below) is fixed and normally sits high above the water. The dock on the right floats. That bridge you see going UP between them usually goes DOWN, substantially so, when the world is as it should be. The waterfront businesses became much more waterfronty. That’s not a big puddle you see there. That’s the tide coming in. It was clear and dry when I took…
BHM has a buy-one-get-one-free offer on any Backwoods Home anthology. Offer is good through Sunday at midnight. NFI on my part, except the usual undying gratitude to the Duffys and the wonderful staff of BHM for keeping me writing and keeping the pups in kibble.
Per MamaLiberty in comments, the Future of Freedom Foundation is offering two gun-rights ebooks FREE today and tomorrow. The books are: The Tyranny of Gun Control (various authors including Sheldon Richman and Jim Bovard) and Freedom and Security: The Second Amendment and The Right to Keep and Bear Arms by Scott McPherson. Get ’em while you can. The timing of this is perfect.
Jim Bovard on our fearmongering president. Charles C.W. Cooke does it again. Our right to bear arms is not up for debate. (Heck, even that elitist, statist pig Alexander Hamilton knew that.) Well. So much for all that oh-so-careful vetting. Surprise, surprise. Iran lies and Obama just nods like a bobblehead doll. Alas, the middle class is now a minority. The graph says it most vividly. You can feel the squeeze. LOL! Glenn Harlan Reynolds on Donald Trump as the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man. (Or to put it another way, when leaders are fiddling while nations burn you don’t get John…
For the first time in days it’s not drenching and flooding. Oh, there’s a little hail here and there. A few scattered thunder-boomers. The wetland across the road is extremely wet. And my waterfall (yes, I have my own personal waterfall, but only when the weather is like this) is merrily burbling away. Other than that, it’s lovely. Blue. Dry. Gave me a chance to put the dogs in the yard and go out and tape up a few more seams on Old Blue. Taping worked as a proof-of-concept but I apparently missed a few spots, first go-round. More weather…
They shouldn’t have euthanized the alligator. Should have given him a medal. No, Colbert. The problem isn’t that you don’t have to show ID to buy ammo. The problem is that you do have to show it to buy Sudafed. This is how tyranny creeps its creepy little way into our heads. Barack Obama … um created Donald Trump. Two good ones from TZP: Bear Bussjaeger’s “Speaking Ill of the Dead” and William Lehman’s guest commentary, “Controlled Violence, or Pistols and Other Things that Go Boom”. Subscribers to TZP alerts got an early look at both of these. Guess you…