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This guy just dropped a load on a river canyon a couple miles from our place. Fire advanced within the last hour to a mile from a different direction. Crews are on it…

And their greatest fear

…unless you defect to, say, Russia. But Hillary can’t do that. Oh, would that the delightful piece quoted below prove to be prescient. I am sure that casual mishandling of classified data is rampant among the political elite in DC, … Continue reading →

I’ve run into a couple of DC-connected folks who are generally favorable to privacy rights, but when you bring up Snowden or Assange they growl and mutter something about “not what he seems.”

A delightful long-form review that somehow left me aware of the rapidly fading relevance of the memories of my generation. All the while I was grinning wildly and laughing at snark and old tech. Can’t stop thinking about it, now.

Dilemma for airshow photog: to extend, or not? With f-stop comparisons. Worth the read.

California. Get it together. Drought stricken California is burning and flooding at the same time. Water is easy to store, transport, and dispense. None of these are new technologies.

The HuffPo has given up and decided to tell the truth. Gun Control Might Not Have Stopped the WDBJ Shooter. That’s Not the Point. Two of their Senior correspondents drop the lie and just verbally flail about pushing a bad … Continue reading →

Kevin asks if anyone uses them. I do, sort of:    That’s in the “target rifle” safe. I’ve got the .22 size and the bigger-than-.22 size, and they work fine. However the way I have the guns set up they … Continue reading →

The past truly is a different country. I had no idea this existed:    Reminds me of this for some reason: