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Adaptive Curmudgeon is handsome, brave, and wise.

Your Daily Dose Of Awesome

Maggie’s Farm has a 2 1/2 minute video of daredevils doing preposterous things. I approve heartily! Continue reading

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Chicken Motivation!

Apparently my shenanigans with chickens have reached someone’s heart. Continue reading

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Case Study In Why Men Are Doomed And Dogs Are Confused

Recently I fell prey to a plot which I claim to be entrapment. Continue reading

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The Other Half Of The Misery Index

I’m less worried about unemployment than inflation. Inflation sneaks though the window in the middle of the night, sets your car on fire, shoots your dog, and lobs a live grenade into your bank account. Unemployment shows up drunk, drinks all your beer, craps on the couch, and makes a pass at your girl but you can try to set things back in order once you shoo it out the door. Unemployment is never delightful but an individual can do his or her best to adapt and might come out ok. Continue reading

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Free Wood!

Aside from beer and bacon, there isn’t much that’s better than free wood. This has been a good year for acquiring free wood. All the firewood I have is free (except the stuff I bought)*. Continue reading

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Smart Car Follows The Chevy Volt Down The Rathole

It was not for sale in America. Thanks to Twinkies like Ralf Nader, the EPA, and our Nation’s lamentable position as host to rabid hordes of feral liability lawyers, lots of cool cars cannot be sold in America. It pains me to say it but the French can buy cars that I, as an American citizen, cannot. The French damn it! It’s an assault on all that America stands for that the damn French can buy something that’s banned by EPA regulation. We’re the people who invented Wal-Mart and turned over-consumption into a National pastime. It’s not right! Continue reading

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The Chevy Volt (As Expected) Continues To Bleed Money

A dead horse, sufficiently beaten, is dead. A green jobs government subsidy, never dies. Continue reading

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Inflation and Porn

The government is playing games when defining inflation. (In part this is expected. The consumer price index ignores food and energy, which only makes sense for people who don’t eat and ride a mule to work…the zombie Amish?) Continue reading

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Finally! Good News About Black Friday.

It’s a reasonable guess that there are some 129,000 more guns in the hands of free American citizens than there were the day before. Huzzah! Continue reading

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Test

This post has no content. It’s as bereft of thought as daytime TV. Continue reading

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