I’m lucky enough to have several friends who keep bees. At one apiary, they strive each year to come up with a clever label. In 2012 (which, as you recall, was the year the world ended), they had the Bee of Doom descending: But this year they outdid themselves. Their most productive hive was also the most protective hive. Although the humans eventually “won” and took the honey, the bees put up a battle worthy of … well, see for yourself: Note the extra “stingers” on those bees. —– I’ve blurred the name and location of their apiary for privacy…
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The town of Deer Trail, Colorado, has already received requests (and checks) for 983 drone-hunting licenses — despite not yet having passed a license ordinance. Actually, they’ve gotten more than 983. That’s just where the town clerk stopped counting a couple weeks back.
17 Comments… even when genetics and circumstances conspire against you. Iligitimi non carborundum. Oh yeah, the happy-science article forgot to mention cute dog videos. Even when they’re just commercials, they’re right up there with cute cat pix as mood lifters. —– BTW, you can get the cool led-light collars (and leashes) on Amazon. I didn’t intend this post to be a promotional, but what the heck. My Amazon sales are down a little and if you don’t want any buckets of wheat berries, Israeli bandages (a perennially popular Amazon item hereabouts), survival knives or gourmet coffee, maybe some dress-up for your…
5 CommentsIt’s gotten easier and easier to become a “terrorist” in the government’s eyes. Buy too many MREs. Join a Tea Party group. Get the same tattoo that your friends have. Talk too much about religion or the Constitution … all of that — and more! — puts you in the “if some jerk sees something, s/he’s supposed to say something (about YOU!)” category. But frankly, people, some of you are just too lazy. Too lazy or too blandly innocuous even to qualify as a terrorist suspect by those lax standards. All your friends are making their way onto “lists” or…
22 CommentsOh man, I hope this turns out to be the real deal. ‘Cause I want one! I’ve always thought the first tiny, bare-bones Japanese imports of the 1970s were the perfect cars for me. Reliable, no-frills, front-wheel drive, affordable. Not a whole lot of comfort, but also not a whole lot of electronic this and automatic that to go wrong. Was a disappointment when regulations and market forces un-simplified the simple, basic, economy car. Now comes the Elio. Or next year comes the Elio. Okay, I dunno about the stability of that three-wheel design, and it’ll be some kind of…
22 Comments(Source) This Labor Day morning I found myself singing one of the greatest working-man songs ever. “Sixteen Tons” found its perfect voice in Tennessee Ernie Ford, who made a bazillion dollars off it in the 1950s. A few years earlier, its original author/singer didn’t fare so well. He got a visit from the feds, among other things. For writing a subversive song and being a “communist sympathizer” (though in fact songwriter Merle Travis was a patriotic country boy). Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose. Today the armed hysterics would just use different terminology about people they fear. —-…
22 CommentsAfter the recent revelations about DEA snooping, I guessed the NSA would have to be involved. Hm. Not necessarily. Not when you have AT&T at your right hand. (Via Sipsey Street.) And how strange have things gotten — how very, very strange? — when you try to reach the Secretary of State and after gradually climbing the bureaucratic ladder, you end up getting a callback from Eric Schmidt’s girlfriend instead? Happened to Julian Assange. And does not appear to have been “an isolated incident.” How much longer can this corrupt, rotten, secrecy-obsessed corporate-state UberGovernment center hold?
5 CommentsJackson county, Mississippi, sheriff Mike Byrd was apparently a typical corrupt cop. If the accusations are true, he used his power to get everything from free lawnmower repair to a murder indictment against an innocent man. Alas, there’s nothing unusual about that. What’s unusual is the way the Christian Science Monitor used Byrd as a tsk-tsking hook for an article about how terribly, terribly dangerous the patriot-supported power of the sheriff is. You know the belief: the sheriff, the highest elected law-enforcement officer, is therefore the highest law enforcer, period. And — in desperate times — that makes him the…
8 CommentsRugby, while not as bizarre as cricket, remains a mystery to me. But I’ve always gotten a kick out of the New Zealand AllBlacks and other Pacific Island rugby teams performing fierce, tribal hakas at each other before games. Today I learned from Borepatch that — srsly? — the good Mormons of Brigham Young University also perform a haka before rugby games. Yes. I agree it’s mind-boggling, Borepatch. Mormon haka. But I can do ya one better.* 😉 This is one of several (wouldn’t you know it) Mormon missionary hakas on YouTube: So yes. Mormon haka. Still boggles the mind,…
11 CommentsI confess that even though she and I are both considered Gunbloggers (she more than I, though she disputes her gunblogger status), Erin Palette really wasn’t on my radar. Not until yesterday when I noticed this graphic popping up across the gunblogosphere: Blogs like this one and this one and this one told part of the tale. But everybody stepped aside to let Erin Palette reveal what she has gathered the great courage to say about herself. I can’t add anything to what’s already been written. Erin Palette, you got guts. But Erin’s story is also a great testimony to…
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