… and preparedness (as we were in the previous post), here’s a sobering take on the subject from Brandon Smith. And from Rod Serling. Even though I repeat and repeat that I think the “zombie apocalypse” or even the all-out localized panic is a rare and unlikely occurrence for most of us and shouldn’t be the focus of our preps, I admit the Twilight Zone clip was too believable to watch, even all these decades later. (Tip o’ hat to J.)
Author: Claire
I got this comment yesterday from BHM reader Vicki O: I just read [your article “Circle of Friends”] on the Backwoods Home site and I have to say it is the most sensible preparedness info I’ve ever read! I grew up in the sixties reading scifi, and the decisions you would have to make if you had a bomb shelter and no one else did really stressed me out. I live in a neighborhood i just moved to 8 months ago. I know my neighbors enough to say Hi to, but that’s about it. Can you tell me a good…
Hm. Great minds. (You may recall this.) And almost great ones. (Funny how so many people come so close but miss the real point.) (Tip o’ hat to PT.) Oooh, da poo widdle snitch powice infowment. Him get his widdle feewings hurt. (Tip o’ hat to C^2.)* Weird stuff found in the woods. (Don’t click unless you have a lot of time to waste today.) A tad dated. But amazing Also amazing. Owl flying in for a kill at 1000 frames per second. Oh my. The Internet Movie Firearms Database. Search on a movie or TV show and learn all…
Here’s the latest from Jake MacGregor. Just one chapter again this week (the cold weather is rough on Jake’s health). But it’s one that ties some loose threads. Silver on “The Free Rider Fallacy.” (For the next time one of your dubious friends brings up one of those endless why-liberty-can’t-work hypotheticals.) Sweden. Hey, maybe you could send us some of your government. Well, on second thought … Of course you haven’t been following the long, drawn-out wedding and Insta-Divorce (TM) of whichever Kardashian that is … starts with a K, something like that. Me neither. Ahem. And I don’t read…
Still deadlining. Oy. But I’m beginning to believe that the light I see at the end of that tunnel might not be an onrushing train. This weekend I’m going to collapse in a happy heap. Meanwhile, the news … “Penn Jillette’s 10 commandments for atheists.” I’m neither an atheist nor a fan of commandments. Still, these are pretty good. (Tip o’ hat to PT.) Can any of you techno-hackers tell me if this might work at a distance of 50 yards or so? I’ve had this little problem … Six things nobody will tell you about MF Global. I mean,…
That damn Joel scooped me. And he hasn’t even read the book yet. I’ve been sitting on a .pdf copy of J.D. Tuccille’s new freedomista novel High Desert Barbecue for several days now, too busy deadlining to give it the attention it deserves. I figured I had a little more time. (So did Tooch, who didn’t realize Amazon can publish a book at something faster than lightspeed.) Then he goes and announces that both Kindle and Nook versions are available now, with the paperback to follow in some sort of obscene hurry. So here I am, behinder than I oughta…
You may have heard about the famous riot dog that’s become a symbol of Greek resistance (or Greek mayhem, depending on your point of view). Well, check out these photos. And this being Halloween, be sure to check out the very last one on the linked page. I’m surprised cops haven’t puppycided him yet.
The road from self-reliance to self-pity. Whole gangs of “constitutional sheriffs” in Northern California? Wonders never cease. (Too bad this intriguing article never gets around to mentioning the very important state of Jefferson.) Via Wendy McElroy: You’ll never believe the latest group the FBI considers a threat. (I’m going to have to create a new topic category for Stupidity Above And Beyond the Call of Even the Government.) While I don’t agree with this writer’s snarky take on Occupy Wall Street, it sure does seem some young lefties are learning some real-life lessons. Including one right out of Atlas Shrugged.…
Just one new chapter from Jake MacGregor this week. But it’s a sweet one. Good on you, Canadians, especially all you patient gun-rights activists. It seems you’re finally, really and truly to be rid of that ridiculous long-gun registry. (D’you suppose the gov will actually wipe all trace of it from existence, though? Only if your politicians and bureaucrats are more honest than ours.) The real contagion risk from Europe or how the U.S. treasury market might go blooey. (Tip o’ hat to D.) A man of principle. Scott Olsen’s condition is improving and he is now conscious, but he’s…
Man, this round of deadlining is hurting my head and my whole self. I’ve just done the second draft of the most difficult article I’ve written in years. Probably wrote 15,000 words overall (that’s about 1/6th of a novel, people) to get 4,000 that I hope are useable. Write, rewrite, cut, cut, cut, rewrite, cut, cut. Have a feeling the client will still want one more session of slash and burn. Maybe tear the thing down to 3,000 or 3,500. After that, more deadlines. More challenging ones, in a way. Some days, I wish I’d taken up a promising career…