Author Archives: AdaptiveCurmudgeon

About AdaptiveCurmudgeon

Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

A Mind Control / Coffee Moment

This is a brief intermission in the saga of the squirrels while I get my head out of my ass and write it attend to other matters. In the meantime (and in keeping with my current “ignore politics when possible” policy) I’m … Continue reading

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Road To Portland: Part 4: A Quest Is Initiated

Bart was going to die. He’d spent autumn, when he should’ve been gorging on the bounty of nature (or stolen apples), petrified and covered with skunk bits. Without a store of fat, hibernation was just another word for starvation. Even … Continue reading

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Road To Portland: Part 3: Winter Is Coming

Seven thousand feet above a nondescript homestead in the middle of nowhere a beautiful thing was happening. A minute particle of dust became the nucleus for a gossamer structure of ice crystals. This crystalline entity, almost achingly beautiful on its … Continue reading

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Road To Portland: Part 2: The Failure Of Operation Deplorable

A thousand miles away the Analyst was watching a series of monitors. Drones were circling so high above the Curmudgeon’s forest that they might as well be satellites. Satellites were peering so intensely at the area they might as well … Continue reading

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Road To Portland: Part 1: In Which A Financially Unsound Decision Is Made

The Curmudgeon had a choice to make. He stared at the crater and weighed his options. All of the squirrels were missing, an oak had exploded, and a bear was petrified. It was the government’s fault! Those bastards! He knew … Continue reading

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Squirrels? You May Ask Yourself “How Did I Get Here”

Lesbian Squirrels is a serialized story. You might have started reading in the middle and wonder what the hell is going on. The links below cover the first two chapters of the saga. Happy reading: Chapter One: In which a … Continue reading

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I Will Try To Reject Political Stupidity And Submit Lighthearted Stupidity In Its Stead

I’m on the road this week. This is bad timing! Friday, as happens quadrennially or octennially (is that a word?), there will be a graceful transition of power in our mostly peaceful republic. The press is in a snit about … Continue reading

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Warning Labels By Physicists

Liberty’s Torch digs into it’s archives to lead us away from politics and toward jocularity. Good idea! Here’s just one of several excellent consumer warnings: “IMPORTANT NOTICE TO PURCHASERS: The Entire Physical Universe, Including This Product, May One Day Collapse Back … Continue reading

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I Love America; Including The Americans

Cold Fury linked to I love America. It’s Americans I hate. I generally ignore such things. I’m aware coastal elites deplore me without clicking on Slate, having NPR drilled into my truck’s radio, or watching MSNBC’s talking heads. But, in the interest of paying attention … Continue reading

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Eleven Days

Nobody regrets this advice: “If you’re doing a dumb, dangerous thing for a bad reason, or aren’t really clear on the reason… stop it.” Reasonable people can (and should) reasonably disagree. The proper foreign policy of America, a nation of … Continue reading

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