Courtesy of my friend Joe Messerli over at PoliticallyIncorrectHumor.com.
Happy Birthday to Harry Potter
Since it's still July 31 where I live, it's not too late for me to wish Harry Potter, born on July 31, 1980, a very Happy Birthday. Over on the Wizarding World Web site, and in the app, there was a very good story ranking all of Harry's birthdays. Of course, his eleventh birthday was …
Coming out of retirement
Just over a week ago, I received an unsolicited email from a recruiter who found my profile on LinkedIn. For years, I have received all sorts of inquiries from recruiters, asking if I would be interested in a job. I always told them that I was already happily employed, and was not really looking to …
Hello, Citizens! The Health Nazis want to put y’all back in chains!
Yes, fellow Citizens, with the Covid "Delta Variant" spreading everywhere in America, the Health Nazis are again all over the dishonest "mainstream media", revising CDC guidelines on mask-wearing, encouraging everyone to get vaccinated with the still-experimental vaccines, and referring to the possibility of further mandated restrictions on your life. Even with the knowledge that mask-wearing …
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Be very careful what you ask for, Washington State DemocRats. Police Reform.
The last legislative session in Olympia passed a package of "police reform" measures, supposedly designed to "undo racial inequity" in policing in the state. The effects of this reform package can be easily predicted. The article at KOMO today lists some of the changes to law-enforcement in the State of Washington. The laws constitute what …
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Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #158: Back Country Roads. Enjoy your Liberty!
Before we get going down some back-country roads, let me disagree with one of the quotes that Tina used in her post this week. Liberty is not a privilege, it is one of your God-given Rights. Let's return to those unforgettable words of the Declaration of Independence: We hold these truths to be self-evident, that …
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Annals of stupid electric vehicles, Philadelphia Edition
Over on the web site of the excellent publication, the Washington Free Beacon, I found what I think is the funniest (not funny ha-ha, but funny tragic) story so far this year. It seems that the Philadelphia-area transit agency, SEPTA, purchased a bunch of battery electric buses from a company called Proterra. The agency spent …
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The English language is weird.
How can a word have two entirely opposite meanings, one good and one bad? Well, the word Sanction is one that does. This is a word that many people don't use at all in their day-to-day lives. But its meaning changes, depending on whether it is used as a noun, or a verb, and depending …
Lens-Artists Photo Challenge #157: Getting away
Ahhh, getaways. When you're retired, you can schedule a getaway whenever you want, since every day is a weekend. However, I just had to do this one first, as a response to Tina's photo. Hers was the outside, and mine is the inside of the Denver airport. In 2015, we went to a Hillsdale College …
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Clean Energy? Not so fast.
We hear and read about the advent of so-called "clean energy" sources, which are scheduled to take over from dirty sources such as coal, oil, and natural gas all over the world. The European Union, The USA, China, and many other countries are embarking on the energy transition with dispatch; banning internal-combustion vehicles, institution "cap …
