Monthly Archives: October 2022

“Let them eat cake!”

31 Oct 22   “Four general maxims:   1) Your motives are not as altruistic as they seem to you.   2) Don’t over-estimate your own meritoriousness.   3) Don’t expect others to take as much interest in you as you do   4) Don’t arrogantly imagine that most people give enough thought to you […]

Experts!

26 Oct 22   Watch these experts!   On Sunday last (24 Oct 22), a gun-carrying amateur in GA was in a local Walmart with a pistol (brand unknown) stuffed in his waistband (absent a holster), a practice sometimes called “Mexican Carry.”   His pistol predictably slipped out of its precarious perch and fell down […]

Basic Right!

25 Oct 22   “Genocide will commence shortly after they force us to turn-in our guns. That’s the way it always happens!”   Marshall   Sunday next, 30 Oct 22, Brazilians will be voting in a general election that will determine if current president, Jair Bolsonaro, will remain in office.   Since Bolsonaro’s election in […]

Over?

20 Oct 22   “Are not dreams of poets, and tales of travelers, notoriously false?”   HP Lovecraft   American soldiers patrolling the German countryside after “VE Day” (8 May 1945) were routinely shot at (more than a few were killed) by disgruntled former Nazi soldiers, by civilians in some cases.   These attacks took […]

When in Bear Country ….!

18 Oct 22   Coming to a “park” near you, maybe even a back yard!   Last Sunday, a ten-year-old boy was attacked  in his own back yard by a black bear, who apparently considered it his back yard!   The bear was chased-off by relatives, but the boy suffered significant injuries, albeit not life-threatening. […]

NYC

12 Oct 22   “Creepy, slovenly, sleazy, amoral leftists who smugly justify their own sloth, cowardice, criminality, and disgraceful dishonor as acceptable ways of living, with the unwavering support of Democrat politicians, who themselves are, without fail, individually worthy of the same description”   Anon   Within the last two weeks, there have been at […]

Mondragon Rifle

6 Oct 22   “Many think they are ‘thinking,’ when there are merely rearranging their prejudices.”   William James   The Mondragon Rifle, among the first military autoloaders!   As WWI ended in 1918, enlightened war planners around the world universally concluded that bolt-action military rifles were now obsolete. It was only naive politicians and […]