Monthly Archives: October 2018

One interesting facet of sight in day is that it’s for hunters. Ranges are usually awash with super marksmen competitive shooters; this is not their day. Sight in day is the day when “minute of deer” is what most people … Continue reading →

I’m a firm believer in two pieces of wisdom: Aim small, miss small. And We don’t rise to the level of our expectations, we fall to the level of our training. Both of those are stenciled in my head. Regrettably, … Continue reading →

…I sometimes enjoy watching train wrecks. Start of the story: “Kelly dared to ask if there were any circumstances in which it would be okay for a White Devil to wear blackface — say, dressing up like Mr. T, as a … Continue reading →

[Forgive the light posting lately. Shit happens.] I mentioned earlier that I was playing around with PredictIt. (Don’t get excited, I’m risking money amounts that would barely buy a pizza.) In a market, any market, the devil is in the … Continue reading →

The future documentary Idiocracy has a scene where an average person tries to solve a problem in a room full of idiots. It’s one of the best scenes in modern cinema! We’ve all experienced this. One side is trying to … Continue reading →

Some time ago I was getting pissed off with politics. (Ha ha ha… getting…  like it’s a new thing.) Everything seems so predictable. Everyone plays their assigned part like friggin’ marionettes. Why? I find it inexplicable they’d subvert their own … Continue reading →

At Curmudgeon Compound all hell has broken loose. Well actually it’s done breaking loose. Phase 1 has come and gone. Now I’m busily establishing what euphemizers call a “new normal”. It might be a better normal than once was, so … Continue reading →

Some shit just went down. I won’t elaborate at the moment but I’m sure it’ll all work out in the end. In the meantime, I’m busier than a one legged man in an ass kicking contest. In lieu of content, … Continue reading →

No shit, there I was… I was contemplating the possibility that my homemade mouse trap* was catching rodents in a series that mimics the Fibonacci sequence when I got an e-mail.  “Would you like to win free…” Trashed it. I’m … Continue reading →

[This post may not be up to my normal standards but what the hell, who has standards these days? I dashed it out in one draft as a moment of non-politics.] When I was a teenager I had a very … Continue reading →