Category Archives: Life in the Atomic Age

Gone to talk to a man about a….

Horsepower transfer assembly. Wouldn’t you know it, I start talking to Bill Quick about grabbing up a Cherokee like Buddy the Jeep as a BOV and I go and break parts off Buddy’s axleshaft. Nothing major. I can still get … Continue reading

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Hide the Decline: Part II

Don’t worry, we’re not going to drag ourselves through the Glowball Warmening debate here. This is just the economy. Nothing important. I have a very disturbing email that came in this evening. It alleges out-and-out fraudulent reporting of home sales … Continue reading

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Independents Day

Last week I was wandering around the rightosphere and saw this post at Drang’s. It has occurred to me that it is quite possible that the two things that Barack Obama has done that piss me off the most are: … Continue reading

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Hungry Hounds

The Wife has always made the food for our gang of canines. It is pretty easy. She hunts the dent and ding section of the canned food aisle for the canned vegetables, buys eggs in bulk and hard boils them … Continue reading

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Why psychopaths kill

And why Libertarians don’t Set aside nine minutes and watch this video from Reason TV. Hit this link back to Reason if you’d like a little background.

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Modern Liberalism

And why it is not all all like Classical, or Paleo, Liberalism. Here is one of those old links I mentioned last week. Powerline put up a very good post on the topic of modern Liberalism. It includes a large … Continue reading

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I can’t support him either

Clint Didier, the third place finisher in Washington’s “Top Two” Senate primary last week, is refusing to endorse the Republican establishment pick and second place finisher, Dino Rossi. As would I. Clint Didier, the candidate Sarah Palin backed in the … Continue reading

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Cough

Congrats to David on the new internet interface machine. But dude, What you very likely paid for that thing would pay for two quarters of my college tuition. I do everything you described on an Athlon organized refurbished desktop that … Continue reading

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They’re not just bigger

They’ve actually gone to Texas Illinois has lost out to Texas in a bid for a new Caterpillar plant. Caterpillar Inc. said Thursday it chose Victoria, Texas, as the site for the new factory, which will make a line of … Continue reading

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Funemployment!

How bad an idea was it to extend jobless benefits past 99 weeks? This bad In Bloomington, Ill., machine shop Mechanical Devices can’t find the workers it needs to handle a sharp jump in business. Job fairs run by airline … Continue reading

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