Tab Clearing...

• Russian frigate sent to watch over "shadow fleet" tankers moving through the English Channel is now itself low on fuel and drifting.


• Russia, feeling the stress of Ukrainian counterattacks, believed to be preparing "provocation" in Baltic nations or Poland to test NATO resolve.


• New Jersey residents have to keep cool road sign greased up to prevent theft.

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End-Of-Week Memes!

Meme Dump!

*headdesk*

Me: *spends literal decades on the internet trying to explain to people that there’s not a dial labeled ”GAS PRICES” on the Resolute desk*

POTUS, yesterday:

Current Reading...

I'm just wrapping up reading Murphy's Law: My Journey from Army Ranger and Green Beret to Investigative Journalist, and found it quite enjoyable.

It's not often that a guy with experience in the Rangers and Special Forces forgoes the usual vetbro career track and instead takes on serious journalism as well as working as a war correspondent.

Worth the read.

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Wednesday Memes!

It’s all a “you problem”.

Is there a claimed issue with a type of pistol action… whether DA/SA, DAO, cocked and locked single action, or safetyless striker fired …that isn’t actually just a lack of training and practice on the part of the end user?

The Longest Day...

Happy summer solstice!

Sunset in Indianapolis today is at 9:17 and some seconds. While it will be a little later tomorrow, sunrise will too, as the days begin contracting again.

Meme Dump!

Automotif DCXXIX...

Here's a sexy ride you don't see very often. It's a 1966 Plymouth Barracuda Formula S. The color is not factory and the extremely ready-to-party backbeat throbbing from the exhaust said that whatever's going on under the hood isn't either.

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Meme Dump!