“What is best in life? Licking the carbon steel you cooked those tri-tips on is pretty good, although the steak bits were better.”

Here's Knopfler in concert in Italy, 2013. Mostly new (in 2013), some going back to Dire Straits days.

I have argued that the right to keep and bear arms is fundamental to human dignity , and as such I reject and abhor any attempts to disarm f...

Used by children and those training in sword fighting, this one is thought to have belonged to a woman who was a weaver in Cork.  Crafted e...

Challenged to define "assault weapon," the thing his administration keeps asking Congress to ban, the ATF leader admitted that he ...

Brynn Tannehill : "The Grim Truth: The War on Guns is Lost" That’s something that people who support gun control measures need to ...

Learning to tie rescue knots has many benefits. For example, I put a figure 8 on a bite at the end of this rope. It’s usually used to create...

I was just talking about this here the other day , but  the Washington Free Beacon goes into more detail .  According to documents obtained ...

Four youths who need to turn their lives around charged into a convenience store in Houston recently and started robbing customers at gunpoi...

It's not quite the right season, but they don't make Christmas carols like this any more:

Mark Knopfler has always been one of my favorite songwriters and performers, both as the leading force behind "Dire Straits" and o...

What they’re calling a “spy handler” is actually a spy . Specifically it’s a CIA Operations Officer, formerly known as a Case Officer. The t...

South into Transylvania County. North towards the Parkway.  A brief break at a taproom on the south end of NC 215. UPDATE: Afterwards I rode...

 Via Raven, an outrageous story. It's in Reason magazine, not a particularly hot-headed place. The prosecutors, who were found to have c...

The discussion of genealogy interested several of you, so here's a piece Dad29 sent me yesterday on the Celtic influence on the American...

The son of a Communist endorses defunding the FBI, which ruined his father’s life. 

I don't think I've seen Lefty here before, though maybe I've missed him or forgotten. In the early 1950s he was probably as popu...

It's only market capitalization . That stuff is fairy gold. The real problem is they aren't selling beer , either.  Comedians used t...

It's been a while since I posted anything from Sose the Ghost, but this piece struck me. It compares the stories of David Allan Coe and ...

In the last post, I mentioned that enmity has lingered since at least the 90s. I was thinking of active government enmity, but the cultural ...