This 10-minute TED talk is a wonder of wisdom and humor. Ash Beckham is a lesbian. But even if you think you’re totally tired of hearing about people’s sexual identity, this is different. Her message is universal — and delightful. It just might be helpful for anybody who feels stuck in an emotional closet or has something difficult to say and can’t figure out how.
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It’s that time of year again. Over the next month I’ll be posting a series of Amazon gift suggestions geared toward freedomistas and preppers and those who love them. Some of these posts will have themes (e.g. home security gear, emergency food, gourmet food, flashlights, cool toys), others not. Expect about two of these posts a week between now and mid-December to help you with your Christmas shopping. Today’s theme is that Amazon classic: books. Specifically non-fiction books. Will probably have a post on freedomista novels later. 1. 50 Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do) 2. Zero to…
21 Comments… knowing how quickly (and non-violently) even the worst regimes can fall. (The best parts are toward the end. Of the article, not the regime.) NOTE: The article is an oldie. But a goodie. Thought we could all use the reminder and the encouragement.
5 CommentsMan. Only in a police state does anybody need to publish — or take — advice like this. The Southern Poverty Law Center gets more stupidly weird every year. So when is the MSM going to catch on? From Clark at Popehat: “A Modest Argument About Police Culture Culminating in a Reference to the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.” Chase isn’t the only bank in trouble. How much longer will it be before these “troubles” finally have their natural consequence? (Via S.) Why the Brits (though presumably not the British readers of Living Freedom) love Big Brother. The Obamacare Dozen. That is,…
6 CommentsMade and tested by Solid Concepts. And how right is it that it’s a 1911? Now watch the ATF and the antis have a purple cow. Watch them try to undo reality, try to uninvent technology. And fail. Oh, how gloriously they will fail.
17 Comments… sound to you as if we peasants are now being accused of bitterly clinging to our health insurance? Does to me. Meanwhile Ms Potemkin Sebelius has apparently just made “an important announcement” about ObamaCare that amounts to “the new five-year plan orders the insurance industry to add even more benefits you don’t need to the insurance you can’t get.” And the Nazgul claim there’s an actual, constitutional law buried somewhere deep inside this mess? And supporters go on supporting Obamacare even after getting clobbered, because surely once Dear Leader is made aware of the problem, he’ll rush to take…
6 CommentsI’m home. Which at the moment seems a decidedly mixed blessing. It was a great getaway. I’m glad to be here (and very grateful to the friend who came over and turned the heat on hours before I arrived), but not at all ready to return to the world of bad news. While I get ready to face reality, here’s a funny trapeze act for you. Die Maiers — trapeze from Joachim Mohr on Vimeo. I’ve never linked a Vimeo video before, but this isn’t on YouTube. Hope it works.
5 CommentsDay 2 of my beach getaway. Random thoughts. —– Sometimes just being away is enough. I could almost have checked into a motel across town from my house and gotten the same benefit of “away-ness.” Of course dramatic surf, art galleries, and amazing restaurants are a plus, but not really necessary. The perspective is what matters. —– Being warm is good, too. My house is very cold and hard to heat. Being chilly all the time makes me feel as pathetic as Oliver Twist. This, too, shall be remedied in time, but right now, it’s fantastic to remedy it simply…
29 CommentsIt has been. Since last spring. A crazy, crazy, hectic, maddening, stressed-out year. Not necessarily a bad year, understand. But … difficult. A modest sum of money (long awaited, overdue) finally landed in my vicinity a couple of weeks ago. Glory hallelujah! But I immediately put it to work creating more chaos. Which got more chaotic as it went along. My head. Was about. To explode. So yesterday I went online and found the lowest-cost vacation rental in an Oregon beach town, booked it, and dropped the poor, pathetic, protesting pooches at furrydoc’s kennel (thanks, furrydoc!). Today … here I…
15 CommentsThe latest Feens meme. Can you think of some other “America is so rich …” examples?
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