After last winter’s record rainfall here in California, lots of wood and other flotsam has washed out of the hills and into the ocean and wound up on our beaches. I have been fascinated, in an anthropological sense, as to why people feel compelled to use this material to make little structures on the beach. …
As Others See Us…
Writer- Falconer- Blogger Rebecca O’Connor of Operation Desert Duck visited last week, and wrote these impressions of our Querencia.
One for Fun
Courtesy of the Alpha E, a test of whether you can shoot locks open the way they do in the movies. Hint: it ain’t easy. Some folks have ENTIRELY too much time on their hands..
Thanksgiving Dinner
Instead of turkey– broken-down vehicles preclude a trip to Albuquerque for a good one– we are having two ducks done according to our grease-spattered copy of Julia Childs’ The Way to Cook. The birds are lightly roasted; then the breasts are sliced and sauteed in wine and butter until they are just barely cooked. Meanwhile, …
Fear of Turkeys
The natives of Canton Massachusetts, where I actually used to hunt, are being terroriized by turkeys. ” “Those turkeys terrify me,” Canton resident Judy Klein told the local newspaper, the Patriot Ledger. ” “The turkeys have become a public safety problem,” Canton Animal Control officer Ellen Barnett said. “Saturday’s Patriot Ledger revealed that, during the …
The ASPCA…
…wants the feds to tell you how many dogs you can have.
Naps and Novels
I am not sure how “Michael Blowhard” at 2Blowhards ever manages to blog so much and still have a life– not just links, but full-blown essays. Here is one on naps (can’t live without one after lunch). And here is one on– more or less against– the modern “literary”, more than genre, novel. To my …
Bigotry
A nice quote (from Terry Teachout’s About Last Night): “Bigotry does not mean believing that people who differ from you are wrong, it means assuming that they are either knaves or fools. To think them so is an immediate convenience, since it saves us the trouble of analyzing either their views or our own. ‘Christians …
Our Guns and Theirs..
Steve Sailer has two interesting columns here and here on the guns of both sides in Iraq. I find it interesting that a Marine in Iraq seems to agree with me rather than The Alpha Environmentalist on a long- running controversy over the M16 vs the Kalashnikov– mainly over reliability, but also over small rather …
Derb, Doom, and Gloom
Anyone familiar with this blog will know that (A) I am a big fan of the writing of John Derbyshire and that, (B) despite the general cheerfulness of this blog, I run a regular feature called “Doom and Gloom’. For the life of me, I can’t see why one cannot see that while we are …