🙂 Sword + righteous determination beats knife-wielding cowards. And that reminded faithful reader PT of “I’ll see your six …”. A rough, tough novelist pulls himself back from the brink of death. How well do you know Gandalf from Dumbledore? I was thinking about that while re-reading the Harry Potter books recently, so naturally I had to steal this when Wendy McElroy posted it. The 2015 Human Freedom Index from Cato, the Frasier Institute, and three other think tanks around the world. Once again, the U.S. doesn’t crack the top 10. “I Made an Untraceable Ghost Gun” by Andy Greenberg…
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I write about anti-gunners upping their game. Been more good stuff flowing over there. Check out Y.B. ben Avraham’s “Rumblings Below the Bible Belt” and Sheila Stokes-Begley’s “The Double-Edged Standard” if you haven’t already.
Yeah. I applied. For a job-job. You can blame furrydoc if I get it because she nudged me into this. It’s a job I’d actually love to have. I know the people. I’ve seen the work they do. It’s meaningful and varied and interesting. Though it’s part-time, it has benefits up the whazoo. Benefits. When’s the last time I had benefits? Oh, such a long, long time ago. While I was talking to the boss about what they’re looking for, another potential applicant came in. A woman I know. A woman they know, too. “I’m desperate for this job,” she…
You know, I could happily have gone the rest of my life without knowing the words “putrescine” and “cadaverine” even existed — let alone that they are among my dogs’ smell preferences. This article focuses on why wet dogs stink. But if that doesn’t turn your stomach sufficiently you can use it to read up on cadaverine food preferences. Still holding down your breakfast? You can go on to the part about why they enjoy butt sniffing. I haven’t nerved myself up for that bit yet. (UPDATE: The butt video is actually pretty amusing and informative.) And still … we…
Sometimes it’s so nice just to be. We forget that. Well, I do, anyway. This weekend was perhaps the nicest of the summer. We’ve been having glorious weather for the most part, but often way too hot. A few weeks ago, the southern Oregon coast sweated through several days of 100+ temperatures, and it got to at least 97 here. When it’s that hot it saps you, even when you’re huddled in the shady house with a ceiling fan spinning. I know you folks in the midwest and south have it worse; so no complaints, really. But this weekend was…
What to do the next time government gives you nutrition advice. This is some pretty darned despicable advice, too. But a great attitude if you want to live comfortably in a police state. “Daddy, did you save the razorback sucker?” (What you’re not going to hear an Obama daughter (allegedly) say.) “It’s time to build the private web.” Tone’s a bit statist. Concept is right on. John Mackey of Whole Foods on why intellectuals hate free markets. Windows 10 is spyware pure and simple — even when you think you’ve turned off some of its most intrusive features. Here’s another…
Old-fashioned crimes committed high tech and low. Women taking tea breaks: subversive act. (H/T PT) Bovard on sugar subsidies. The real story isn’t that Facebook canceled a student’s internship when he built an app around one of their privacy vulnerabilities. The real story is how casually the herd beasts are now tracked. Funny this didn’t get more news coverage. (H/T MJR) And for your amusement: Klintonerdämmerung, aka behind the scenes at Chapaqua. (Tip o’ hat to BW) And watch a pair of pups grow up. That one on the left really needs a carpet to run on.
A quick drive-by for an announcement. Two announcements, really. Kurt Hofmann is no longer writing for JPFO. They now have no original writers or content for their alerts. Kurt Hofmann has now taken over my “Enemy at the Gates” column for S.W.A.T. magazine and his first article should appear later this month. If you want to conclude that these two happenings are related, feel free. Kurt is a terrific, up-and-coming gun-rights writer whose military experience makes him perfectly suited to S.W.A.T.. He does great work with great conviction. (Here’s a recent sample.) Heck of a nice guy, too. So yay,…
Panama was already better than many countries on guns. A smidge, anyhow. Now, in hopes of combating rising crime, they’re about to get better. Only a little better than the original smidge, but it’s something. Even the most worthless of petty bureaucrats now think they deserve to be treated and feted like Oriental pashas. Who are these people, anyhow? Once again, at least a few on the fringe are sending the message that they’ve had enough. (Tip o’ hat to jed) Yeah, now let’s see if the EPA and its employees get treated like a private corporation and its people…
This is a story about an act of serendipity that happened yesterday. To tell it, I have to begin with something that happened in 2000 or thereabouts.