Recent training confirms what I have long held as gospel; You cannot teach someone combat mindset; you either have it, or you don't ( Read more... )

Slings are problematical. I'm speaking, of course, about rifle slings. As with so much else in life, there is no free lunch; every capability comes with a drawback. So let's take a look at them, shall we ( Read more... )

I bastard-hate bookstores.

I went looking for a certain book about two-way radios at a chain bookstore the other day. Foolishly I thought I would find it in the "Communications & Technology" section. Wrong answer.

Wait, it's in the "Entertainment" section? Under A/V Media? Really?

The thing I hate most about chain bookstores is that, ( Read more... )

Everyone who knows me knows that I'm a gun-nut. Part of that entails loving to take things apart and learn how they work ( Read more... )

I know, I know, this seems to be fairly incongruous, considering my occupation.

But the fact is, little kids tend to like me. I can't really explain this apparently mystifying phenomenon, except to say that my cartoonish demeanor and propensity towards absurd mannerisms may partially override their natural distrust of strangers.

The thing in ( Read more... )

Because the desert sucks ass ( Read more... )

So my house hunt continues. It hasn't  exactly been going swimmingly ( Read more... )

So I got off work at 7 this morning. I have to leave on a business trip at 6 tomorrow morning ( Read more... )

Congress, unfortunately, is, collectively speaking, rather like a small child. You've to keep your eye on them, or the next thing you know, they're drawing on the wall with crayons.

HR 40 is the biggest goddamn crayon I've seen in a while.

Quoting here;

"To acknowledge the fundamental injustice, cruelty, brutality, and inhumanity of slavery in the ( Read more... )

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