The South Pacific is a marvelous place for characters, it attracts them and magnifies them the same way it magnifies all the tales and rumors. After a while I developed Willis’s Rule of Rumors, which is that you need to divide all the numbers in a story about some other island by the square root…
This is a tale in three parts. Part The First When my daughter was born, the very best advice I got was that when she did something wrong, I should never say “You bad girl, why did you do that?” I didn’t understand why I shouldn’t say that, so my friend explained. He said, “Instead,…
Since this crazy “carbon tax” idea refuses to die, here is a series of posts that I wrote almost a decade ago about the laughably bad carbon tax in British Columbia, Canada. Below, in chronological order, are those posts. British Columbia, British Utopia 2013-07-11 I was pointed by a commenter on another blog to the Canadian…
In November I’d ordered a camper shell for my truck, and it finally came in. I drove to town to drop the truck off for 2-1/2 hours until it was installed. So as is my custom, I went out to wander the streets and see what the inhabitants were up to. As is also my…
From the Epoch Times. Here’s the most even-handed and informative report I’ve seen. Longish, but well worth the read. I don’t like putting paywalled articles on my site, but this one is too important to not get the widest possible distribution. w. January 6: A Legacy of Troubling Questions By Joseph M. Hanneman The hardened-steel baton…
I am reposting this here because it is so important to discuss right now. I ask that you not use my name. I am a currently serving General Officer and what I have to say is highly critical of our current military leadership. But it must be said. I don’t blame President Biden for the…
Months after being put in charge of the ongoing crisis at the southern US border, Kamala Harris still hasn’t done more than get kinda sorta near to visiting the scene of the crime. However, at long last, Heels-Up Harris has laid out her plan for addressing the “root causes” of the people pouring over the…
Short note. I won’t be on Facebook for a week … My crime? Someone falsely claimed that I had friends who rioted in DC on January 6th, and that I supported their actions. I said no, I didn’t know a single person who rioted. He said well, maybe “friends” was the wrong word, but people…
Because I don’t watch Tucker Carlson, I entirely missed what he actually said on this matter, so I don’t have a dog in this fight. However, being a curious fellow, I looked it up.
Today, I needed to clear the final recall notice on my faithful Ram pickup. So of course, as is my habit, after dropping the truck off at the dealers I went to talk to the homeless folks. I’ve written about this curious habit of mine in previous posts entitled “Fixing The Brakes“, “Fixing The EGR“,…
This is getting ludicrous. First, I was busted by Facebook for posting a National Geographic picture of some Papua New Guinea guys wearing penis gourds, as they do there. Nothing obscene, just guys in their native dress. NatGeo. Off limits. No jail time, just a warning. Then I got 24 hours in Facebook Jail for…
So let me get this straight. The Dixie Chicks had to change their names because “Dixie” has a historical association with slavery. Confederate flags are banned because of a historical association with slavery. A fraternity can’t have an “antebellum” party because of a historical association with slavery. Statues of Robert E. Lee are being toppled…
Once again, I had to take my Ram pickup truck to the dealer. This time, it was just to make sure it was OK before the warranty ran out. And once again, I bought a pack of smokes and went out to talk to the homeless. The first people I ran into were Mack and…
I see that 10% Joe has issued an Executive Order that any high-school boy who can put on a dress and sing a verse of “Man, I Feel Like A Woman” is legally entitled to take showers with high-school girls, because feelings. Yeah, what could possibly go wrong with that? I mean, no teenaged boy,…
After I wrote my most recent piece about wandering around in the world of the homeless, called “Fixing The EGR“, some folks accused me of being compassionate. Funny, but I don’t see it that way at all, for a couple of reasons. The first reason is that we grew up without much money. My “new”…
Skating Under The Ice 