One third of the way there, Canada.


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Y'all know I'm not a great fan of regulatory agencies in general, particularly at the federal level. Nitpicking and line-drawing issues aside, I think most reasonable people can at least agree that our current system, in which regulatory agencies generate libraries of micromanaging rules for every conceivable industry, creates costs that are ( Read more... )

On Valentine's day, I went to a Starbucks in Manhattan. If there were no anti-gun protesters there, it's hard to believe there were any elsewhere.

I'm (mostly) pleased that scientists are going to actually reach Lake Vostok.

And pissed off that Glenn Reynolds got to the Charles Stross joke before I did.

Once again, a US Congressman wants to talk about making pennies cheaper. His proposal is to make them from copper-plated steel. If we assume the much more sensible option of abolishing the one-cent piece entirely is off the table--as it almost certainly is*--this is a sensible option. Our northern neighbors have been striking their pennies this ( Read more... )

There's a meme going around, and I picked it up over at Tam's:

"What would you get if you could get any five guns, cost and practicality be hanged?Cost be hanged? I'll rule out fixed and crew-served guns here, to keep the decision making process manageable ( Read more... )

So. Gun control advocates announced a Valentine's Day boycott of Starbucks because that company won't abuse its gun-carrying customers. As discussed last week, gun owners called for an informal buycott to balance the scales.

Before they hid the number of attendees out of embarrassment, their Facebook page showed 137 participants, most of whom ( Read more... )

On February 14, the ladies and I will be spending a romantic evening at Sleep No More for Hecate's Valentine. Because we are weak, weak people.

We'll also be dropping by Starbucks before the show to get ourselves all high on stimulants, and to thank them for refusing to cave to anti-gun activists. The dickbags at the Brady Campaign went after ( Read more... )

Unexpected consequence of being simultaneously obsessed with Skyrim and Sleep No More:
I'm extremely reluctant to take a quest to kill witches and their mistress.

When it comes to dealing with dangerous bears on the trail, there are two and a half schools of thought ( Read more... )