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a sign of our times

In a rather interesting example of just how pervasive social media has become in our modern society, the legal defense team for George Zimmerman has started a weblog and Twitter account. Being the distinctly not-a-lawyer as I am, my initial, knee-jerk reaction to that information is to immediately decry …

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the gun control mask slips a little more

By and large, the hardcore "gun control" extremist organizations throughout America have to play the long, political game, which basically boils down to incrementalism – they want total civilian disarmament, and we know they want total civilian disarmament, and it is fair to say that they know we know, but …

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one-line review: paul

Paul: This is quite possibly the funniest, most irreverent, spoofiest, and definitely the most crude science fiction comedy I have seen in a very long time, and stands a very good chance of knocking Galaxy Quest off its well-deserved, parodical throne. …

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two, please

Go here.

Press "Support".

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DO IT. NOW.

(Courtesy of Merlin’s Musings.) …

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big badda-boom

Everyone remember the Bighorn Model 89 – the .500 S&W Magnum lever-action rifle I still want, still do not own, and still cannot afford, but helped make this awesome motivational image for:

My understanding is that it will be featured on tomorrow’s (Wednesday’s) American Guns as the folks at Gunsmoke

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it’s the whole… air-flow

Unlike a fellow gunny who used to write here, I went ahead and figuratively pulled the trigger today and ordered not one, but two 5.11 Tactical Duty Kilts, one in TDU Khaki and one in TDU Green. I waffled back and forth between ordering one or two – …

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yesterday, at kroger

On my way to Organized Play to have my ass handed to me at a prerelease game for the new set of Magic: the Gathering (I did manage to "win" one round, but only because we ran out of time and the other guy threw the last of our three …

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how improbable

If you are not reading Questionable Content, you should.

It makes me kind of sad that I am all caught up now.  …

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well, i survived

I would like to thank Alan, Breda, JayG, and Weer’d for having me on the Squirrel Report last night – if you missed the actual show, you can download it here.  Aside from briefly perpetrating a few myths about the Kitty Genovese murder (which was bad, …

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do not forget

Me (and my two cats).  On the radio (-ish).  Tonight.  In <5 minutes (well, really, sometime around 2230 EDT, per the hosts’ request).

Should be… something.  …

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i sweated a lot to bring you this situational irony

To get to Mount Le Conte Lodge – the establishment we recently spent the night at – one must first traverse somewhere between 5 and 8 miles of single-track trails through the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. As with all National Parks, the trails and area are remarkably separated from …

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notoriety

Apparently I occasionally write something worth reading, and I seem to have unintentionally used up my quota for the next two years: The Squirrel Report will be featuring two of my recent weblog posts – my guest post for Everyday No Days Off regarding the increasing prevalence of the "…

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the past 36 hours

Started here: 

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Did this: 

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Ended here: 

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Stayed here: 

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Then we started here all over again: 

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Did this: 

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And ended here: 

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I think I have a date with a shower.  …

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just another data point

Back when the bullying thugs of the “National Gun Victims Action Council” were trying to organize their failed attempt at getting people to boycott Starbucks, one of the favorite rallying cries of the anti-rights cultists was, “Why would you ever need a gun in a coffee shop!?”

Well, I …

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a case study of how to fail

Say, for the sake of argument, that you are in charge of a fairly small, unpopular non-profit organization that has dedicated itself to fighting against and with a massively larger organization on the other side of your ideological fence. Say you have been faced with a series of major and …

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keep your paws off the trigger until…

And this is my excuse of a post for today: 

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We have weird cats.  If they just liked the AK-pattern shotgun, I could kind of understand that, given their at least partial Russian Blue heritage, but… 

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I guess we chose well.  Or they did.  …

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good news, bad news

The good news is that Diablo 3 is in open beta this weekend.  If there was ever a game that sucked up more of my time than Starcraft, it would be Diablo 2

The bad news is that they opened it up to everyone to stress-test the …

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an organized play for my ego

I happened to be in downtown Knoxville yesterday with some time to spare, so I swung by Organized Play to see if there was anything I could waste some money one (coincidentally, there was, but such things are not hard to find in that store).

Morgan, the owner, greeted me …

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welcome to the club

I will admit that it is something of a warped tradition, but a gunblogger has never really "arrived" until they have been cyberstalked and harassed by Guy Cabot (aka "JadeGold") and his facilitator, Michael Bonomo (aka "mikeb302000"). Thankfully, Squeaky has the exactly correct attitude about the whole thing; in …

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one-line review: darkest hour

The Darkest Hour: Superficially, this could have been nothing more than a popcorn-worthy scifi/horror romp (especially since the director was also responsible for such previous romps as Night Watch, Day Watch, and the more widely-known Wanted), but, Jesus Christ on a pogo stick, its plot holes …

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