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Saturday, March 26, 2005

The only thing I'll post about Terri Schiavo

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What's the longest you've ever gone without food? About 15 years ago I caught a stomach virus. The effect of this one on me was sim...

Carnival of Cordite #6 is up

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Over at Gullyborg , take a look. Lots of good stuff
Thursday, March 24, 2005

Makarov tryout

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I've had a chance to try out this little pistol. As I understand it, a Russian officer named Makarov (surprise!) took the Walther PPK ...
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Wednesday, March 23, 2005

My own semi-official Jambalaya recipe

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'Semi-official' because I got the base from Justin Wilson, and have fiddled with it since. This was also the recipe that taught me y...

The education system

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I've been reading various news articles and comments on the situation in many universities, and it reminded me of something. In 1978 I w...
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The British are coming!

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The lawyers, anyway, according to this found at the Captain's Quarters. Basically, the British courts are taking the attitude that if s...
Tuesday, March 22, 2005

What are your useful skills?

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Over at AnarchAngel he asks the question, so here goes. I've mentioned my Dad used to be Highway Patrol. Well, the only way he could a...

The peasants are revolting!

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With AK's, yet. And the bad guys are paying the price. Two cases reported today. First from Wizbang , and from Ace of Spades (found th...
Monday, March 21, 2005

Tornados begone!

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Well, it worked for tonight. All the severe stuff moved off to the east. I'm hoping we get a little rain over the next couple of days,...

Booze war!

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And lo, the sage Steve did write upon(about?) the liquors of the world, and their proper place in the pecking order of drinkables. And this...

And so it begins.

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The first day of spring? The first tornado watch of the year. Oh, joy. I had thought about going to the rifle range today, but when I got ...
Sunday, March 20, 2005

Trespass? Get hurt? Get rich.

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I've linked to various nonsense from Britain, including criminals filing claims against people they attacked. But this is a prize case ...

Lord, make a place for this man at the table,

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he's damned well earned it . This is definately courage 'above and beyond the call of duty'. And he's got a sense of humor ...

Yucca Mountain

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I hadn't heard much about this lately. Then I read this over at Mean Mr. Mustard. I've gotten used to the hysteria anytime the wor...

In the tradition of Dan Rather journalism,

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I'll state that the information in this earlier post may be 'fake but true'. Joe Huffman has this followup on the information....
Saturday, March 19, 2005

Ever had bugs in the house?

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BIG ONES?

Acidman should get in on this

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At the Carnival of Cordite , Technogypsy had a mention of Gretchen Ross taking off on a proposal in an area to declare it legal to shoot s...
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Friday, March 18, 2005

Speaking of cartoons,

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Check out Wapsi Square . You'll just have to go there, it's a GIF file and I can't figure out how to post it.

The Fifth Carnival of Cordite is up!

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Over at Technogypsy . Lots & lots of good stuff to check out.
Thursday, March 17, 2005

No, I'm not out drinking

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Not that I have an objection to going out and drinking. However, spending time trying to find a place to park, pushing into the bar, attempt...
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