OK. Regular blogging will return tomorrow … and later tonight I’ll finish and publish the gun control article I wrote half of two weeks ago flying here, I didn’t finish it on the plane … and didn’t have time to finish it until tonight.
Hmm. Interesting?- The Air Travel Rights You Aren't Aware Of (and How to Get Them) May 21, 2013If you've ever sat in a plane on the tarmac only to have the flight cancelled, been bumped just before boarding, or landed at your destination only to be told your luggage will arrive sometime in the next 12 hours, you know how air travel can suck. In all of those cases, the airline owes you for your trouble. Sometimes it's good customer service, a […]Alan Henry
- Guns Using Cased, Telescoped Ammunition May 21, 2013AAI Corp continues to develop caseless, telescoped ammunition and machine guns to fire it under the United States Joint Service Small Arms Research Program Office’s (JSSAP) Lightweight Small Arms Technologies (LSAT) program. The caseless, telescoped ammo and gun developed by AAI under this program, was first mentioned at The Firearm Blog in 2010. In a paral […]Richard Johnson
- Nenana Ice Classic sets new record for latest ice-out, and the record is still growing May 20, 2013UPDATE: Breakup has occurred! See below, for my timelapse video Here is the webcam closeup – when it was still standing as of 14:18 AKDT: Alaska Dispatch confirms what we already knew in this thread on WUWT: Like a striped … Continue reading → […]Anthony Watts
- John Yoo : Lots of Partisanship, No Adult Supervision May 20, 2013The unfolding of the Obama Administration's aggressive attitude towards the media continues to reveal the same sorry themes as the other scandals erupting inside the Beltway. The first is partisanship. This weekend came news that the Justice Department conducted an invasive investigation into the daily activities of Fox News reporter James Rosen, to the […]John Yoo
- Lingo the Clown May 20, 2013textastrophe: […](author unknown)
- A Tough Beat May 20, 2013Anthony Daniels, who also writes under the name Theodore Dalrymple, has for years told us about Britain’s underclass. He observed it up close as a prison psychiatrist. One of the things he often ran into, in broader society, was disbelief: Lords and ladies and so on would simply not believe that what Daniels was describing took place. Which brings me to Roge […]Jay Nordlinger
- Matthew Hennessey : More Smoke than Fire: Some Informal Climate Math May 20, 2013One of the environmental leftâs favorite pictures to paint is of North America as a pristine ecological paradise prior to the industrial revolution of the 19th century. Often, the most hysterical headlines about climate change employ alarming phrases such as âFor the first time in human history!â and âNever before seen levels!â and âAll-time high […]Matthew Hennessey
- The Computer Repairman May 20, 2013textastrophe: The Original Ad: My conversation with the ad poster: […](author unknown)
- Secret thoughts of creative professionals May 20, 2013From Matt Groening back in the day… (via Biblioklept, This Isn’t Happiness) […]Abraham
- How to Supercharge Your Router with DD-WRT May 20, 2013Few routers utilize their full potential out of the box because their firmware limits their functionality. Thanks to an open-source project called DD-WRT, you can unlock your router’s potential to broadcast a stronger signal, manage network traffic, remotely access all your home computers, and a whole lot more. Here’s how to install it, set it up, and superc […]Adam Dachis
- Self-referential Lies May 20, 2013It’s them low-level officials acting up again. The Blaze reports another leak. “The U.S. has apologized to Israel for leaking details of the attack in Syria. Senior administration officials said to their [Israeli] counterparts that they are examining the issue and that low-level [officials] were responsible for the leak. US officials told that they [will] r […]Richard Fernandez
- Office Phone May 20, 2013This is probably one of the dumber ideas I’ve had. It spawned from a throwaway bonus gag I was trying to fit into another strip, and tickled my brain sufficiently that I decided to make it the focus of its very own three panels ‘o’ glory. Maybe one of these days I’ll get around to finishing the strip that spawned this idea, but for now it sits unfinished i […]shoebox
- Crow's Nest : Genghis Khan and Climate Change May 20, 2013Normally when we read about climate change in the press, the stories center around the affect that human technology and carbon emissions have on the planetâs climate. So, we get doom and gloom, handwringing and finger-pointing stories like this one yesterday at Al Jazeera. What we tend to read less about is the manner in which climate conditions shape us. […]Crow's Nest
- Moral Dilemma May 20, 2013You are walking down the street when you come across a wallet lying on the ground. You open the wallet and find that it contains several hundred dollars in cash as well the owner's driver's license. From the credit cards and other items in the wallet it's very clear that the wallet's owner is wealthy. You, on the other hand, have been hit […]Keith Burgess-Jackson
- Theological Determinism and the Standing to Blame May 19, 2013http://shadflyofathens.wordpress.com/2013/05/17/theological-determinism-and-the-standing-to-blame-1/ […]Paul
- The Air Travel Rights You Aren't Aware Of (and How to Get Them) May 21, 2013