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I tried talking on Facebook, and it's a disaster zone, as far as I'm concerned. I'd rather read you here than there anyway, not that such should or will matter.
Ike, have you considered replacing Google Reader??? RSS didn't die, not yet anyway.
The Long Form
One of the most frusatrating things about being me is that I think too much, and I think that I think too quickly. I can't really tell because in the whole of my life I haven't had the good fortune to have a close circle of friends with whom I shared intellectual curiosity and interests. Instead...
The crush of stuff required for serious DIY is staggering. Training is another matter, and pure time. Consider just simple metal work. Watch some of the hot rod shows on the reality channels for examples, and I don't even mean the water jet tables.
OT, but speaking of Victorianism, have you seen Ripper Street on BBCA? Pretty good.
DIY or Die
Sophisticated glamorous things fall apart, the prosumer will not hold on. I have lived long enough to know that the good things in our society come and go. There is always somebody gaming your business plan, and all the gains to be made are at the choice points of inflection. Otherwise, basic...
"If Piers Morgan had to advocate cannibalism to keep CNN from firing him for another week, he would have a BBQ pit on the show by tonight." That's what Daniel Greenfield had to say about Piers Morgan, and Alex Jones. I concur.
A Rude Question About Gun Control, Mental Health & Race
When the Beltway Snipers, two black men, perpetrated their mass murder, America said, yes obviously they are crazy and it was just their insanity that made them evil killers. It has nothing to do with the dysfunction of American society. But when some white kid perpetrates mass murder, America t...
"America thinks there must be something wrong with all of us..."? America does not think that.
A Rude Question About Gun Control, Mental Health & Race
When the Beltway Snipers, two black men, perpetrated their mass murder, America said, yes obviously they are crazy and it was just their insanity that made them evil killers. It has nothing to do with the dysfunction of American society. But when some white kid perpetrates mass murder, America t...
I suspect you'll dismiss this, but perhaps not -- viz the Arctic methane business:
http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/09/25/remember-the-panic-over-methane-seeping-out-of-the-arctic-seabed-in-2009-never-mind/
I only noticed it yesterday after reading your earlier link. I don't know why I bother bringing it up, except just in case someone else was nervous about a global atmospheric fireball.
The Downside
I would like to begin entertaining speculation about the post crash economy. When America walks off the fiscal cliff, what's going to happen? For the time being, I'll just kick this off here at Cobb, but I'm thinking about starting a whole new blog for that purpose. I had an interesting conve...
I don't know -- will the Clean Air Act survive The Downside (whatever that is, though I can probably guess)?
The Downside
I would like to begin entertaining speculation about the post crash economy. When America walks off the fiscal cliff, what's going to happen? For the time being, I'll just kick this off here at Cobb, but I'm thinking about starting a whole new blog for that purpose. I had an interesting conve...
It seems like a distinction without a difference. As a redneck (Peasant?), since it comes out of the pump and is burned by all my gasoline engines, I'm going to comfortably call it a biofuel. I will further stipulate, if queried, that it is an oxygenate, and if I'm feeling ornery, I will point out that it is federally mandated. And has, as stated, raised the cost of feeding animals, leading to higher prices at the butcher counter.
FWIW, I've seen E35 for sale a couple of times around Texas. Given the high number of cattlemen & deer hunters in Texas, I don't expect it to be a popular alternative.
The Downside
I would like to begin entertaining speculation about the post crash economy. When America walks off the fiscal cliff, what's going to happen? For the time being, I'll just kick this off here at Cobb, but I'm thinking about starting a whole new blog for that purpose. I had an interesting conve...
That's hard to believe. Do you have some supporting links?
The Downside
I would like to begin entertaining speculation about the post crash economy. When America walks off the fiscal cliff, what's going to happen? For the time being, I'll just kick this off here at Cobb, but I'm thinking about starting a whole new blog for that purpose. I had an interesting conve...
"a dude he knew who watched Argentina go through collapse slowly but surely": maybe he's talking about this guy? http://ferfal.blogspot.com/ Interesting stuff, especially before he picked up sponsors.
I've spent the spring, summer and fall of this year watching, harvesting, canning and eating a planned Texas garden. It's fascinating, and it's an enormous amount of work, and it's remarkably fragile -- one feral hog getting through a gap can wipe out an acre over night. All food production is fragile. See what the Midwest summer drought combined with ethanol mandates & subsidies have done to beef & pork prices. Can you spot the problem in that sentence?
Flip over to RFD-TV sometime to get a good idea of the Flyover Situation. Naturally, right now, 8am Texas Time, they have the Polka Hour on.
Oh, yeah...the varieties are out there. Pick up a seed catalog.
The Downside
I would like to begin entertaining speculation about the post crash economy. When America walks off the fiscal cliff, what's going to happen? For the time being, I'll just kick this off here at Cobb, but I'm thinking about starting a whole new blog for that purpose. I had an interesting conve...
Interesting that you think this has legs. As an extreme right-wing survivalist gun nut, I wrote it off from the first commercial. It looked like just an absurdly liberal Hollywood cashing-in.
I didn't know about "electricity doesn't work the way it used to", either. That kind of bums me, too.
Perhaps I'll DVR it.
Revolution: Mommy Apocalypse
Well, it's official. Men with stubbly beards are back. They are the new swag. It's called 'swag' these days - you can read that as 'fashionable manhood'. It's not quite up to the manly standards of Commander Riker, but it's doing a bit better than the metrosexual standard we have suffered sinc...
I have to believe that a respectable layer of internal insulation is a good idea on those South Dakota plains. Except the natives inevitably seem to be those wiry types.
It's making me cold just looking at that video.
Snow Country for Old Men
Doc sends his regards from South Dakota. He took his youngest there for dog sledding. He's reading Thoreau and sends me a handwritten note: The most gratifying work is that produced of your own hands. Four days of wood cutting, snow removal and leaf burning is infintely more gratifying than pu...
Reconciliation: they're both chicken-fried and soaked in bacon grease.
Campbell isn't a Roy Clarke, probably isn't a Jerry Reed, but he's super-smooth, and probably was better than I'm remembering.
Jimmy Webb on the Rdio
I have just discovered this dude cruising the new streaming music service 'Rdio'. Rdio is making me qualify all of my previous praise for Spotify. Spotify is great if you know what you want, but absolutely lousy for streaming radio. Let me put it this way. I spent (wasted) two hours listening to...
Definitely the Eagles. I'm the Big Lebowski in that regard. They ruined two genres of music and that's not easy.
Glenn had his own TV show, man! Go YT some of his stuff. He's an awesome guitar slinger, and an Arkie root-hog done good.
Jimmy Webb on the Rdio
I have just discovered this dude cruising the new streaming music service 'Rdio'. Rdio is making me qualify all of my previous praise for Spotify. Spotify is great if you know what you want, but absolutely lousy for streaming radio. Let me put it this way. I spent (wasted) two hours listening to...
Dear Lord in Heaven...Glenn Campbell is only a 'might have been' superstar??? I guess that's the diff twixt Texas and California.
Jimmy Webb on the Rdio
I have just discovered this dude cruising the new streaming music service 'Rdio'. Rdio is making me qualify all of my previous praise for Spotify. Spotify is great if you know what you want, but absolutely lousy for streaming radio. Let me put it this way. I spent (wasted) two hours listening to...
I think I'm kind of pissed, because I haven't seen any OWS snark, except for that shirt-seller thing, which was pretty hilarious.
Occupy Yourself
I've been annoyed by the flock of uninteresting people who have added me to their Google+ circles (probably under the caption of 'asshole') as I have made my snarky comments about 'OccupyWallStreet'. I have a message for them. The map is not the territory. There may very well come a day this y...
My uncle's always looking for a good hand at his Brahman breeding operation, if you ever feel like chucking it all.
Cow Poke
Spent all day yesterday tagging, branding, fixing and inoculating cattle. Just wow.
That's a very nice and interesting bit of fusion, just wandering through his YT collection. Cool picking style, too. And that first video you embedded here, that's on the radio when the devil, wearing a white dress with black drawers, takes shotgun and you're headed to that little after-hours place out over the county line. I don't understand how one guy with one guitar and a bottleneck slide, in broad daylight, can make me so ready to do things my mama would not approve of.
Guitar slingers, man...
Black John's Blues
One of these days, hopefully not too soon, we are going to run out of people who knew and worked with Miles Davis personally. Until that time, you should make it your business to seek them out and discover what they have been doing. This man, John Bigham. You can't ignore him. He's got something...
Really? I want my kids and grandkids to think more of me than just a piece of ground. I think of my grandparents and my dad that way. Not where they're buried, but what I learned from them. Every day.
Whatever is in your head, well, you called it. It's stupid. We honor the dead by learning their lessons, not by going to their funeral.
The Atheists' Burial Ground
..from these honored dead we take increased devotion... My new favorite TV show is River Monsters. Now that I have a new DVR that can hold 70 hours of HD, I might just get more episodes of everything. So I'm recording the marathon for this weekend. In the last episode I watched, I watched him li...
Fair enough, but you're not the only one who would say that, you know.
JOURNAL: Ding Dong Osama's Dead Redux
Here's a challenge to the dominant perspective that hopefully get's you thinking (after you get over being pissed off): Great. Osama's dead. Good job to my former compatriots in tier one. Unfortunately, Osama may have already won strategically (see Boyd on al Qaeda's Grand Strategy for more) ...
Holmes, you're in the fear business, just not that branch of it.
JOURNAL: Ding Dong Osama's Dead Redux
Here's a challenge to the dominant perspective that hopefully get's you thinking (after you get over being pissed off): Great. Osama's dead. Good job to my former compatriots in tier one. Unfortunately, Osama may have already won strategically (see Boyd on al Qaeda's Grand Strategy for more) ...
I'm sure I've said it before here, but Man On Fire is one of the greatest movies ever made, and Creasy is one of the greatest heroes on film. There is nothing not to like about this talkie. The general idea of calling this an "action" movie is an utter failing on someone's part. I want to call it Shakespearean, but there's probably a better comparison.
Man On Fire
(from the archives May 2004) Can you kill the man who tried to kill you? Yes or No? If he is part of an organization, should you kill the organizers? If you could, would you? It's very difficult to talk about Denzel Washington's latest film without also talking about Abu Ghraib and bunch of ot...
This is easily the most ridiculous comment thread I've ever read here. Exemplified perfectly by this -- "We're trying to learn something about whites" Keep digging, kiddo.
Rude, my ass...I feel like I'm filling time on a damn NPR show.
A Rude Question for White People
I'm disappointed with Adam Serwer. Ever since I started following his blog at American Prospect, he seems to have gone short attention span theatre on me. I know that when you're in the zone, you can keep up with every little thing, but a lot of crap creeps in. For example, I have no reason to e...
In the immortal words of Bachman Turner Overdrive, you ain't seen nothing yet...
A Rude Question for White People
I'm disappointed with Adam Serwer. Ever since I started following his blog at American Prospect, he seems to have gone short attention span theatre on me. I know that when you're in the zone, you can keep up with every little thing, but a lot of crap creeps in. For example, I have no reason to e...
That's a total spit take. I can think of nothing that interests me in this latest union of circus poodles, not even in the remote, vague meta-feudalist sense you speak of.
A Note About Royalty
In my world of thinking, I tend to agree that men are motivated by three things: Fear, Glory and Greed. This is an old idea of Aristotle's or somebody whose name fits into that same ancient bucket. Is interchangeable with Honor to my way of thinking, and in a small enough community, all your hon...
Looks like my original reply got eaten, so, real quick:
I like the Springfield XD lineup for pistols. I like the Springfield M1A for a rifle. It's all subjective, past a certain level, so try a lot of different platforms for both.
And do reconsider that Mossberg: tough, cheap and versatile.
Staring Down the Barrel
I love the mechanical coolness of firearms, but somehow I haven't managed to get one. I'm rather in a survival mode of thinking these days, sensitive as I am to the lies and distortions coming out of Japan as regards the actual status of their reactors, and the to the lies and distortions coming...
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