View From The Porch

The natives are getting restless .

So, I mentioned Stephen King in a post and, like clockwork comes the response: " Stephen King? Pphhhhtt! Prolific hack! " two... t...

I mentioned recently that Stephen King's book Pet Sematary was the only novel of his that had ever really scared the bejabbers out of ...

When I go to the range, I always drag my ammunition along packed loose in ammo cans. Last Sunday I shot the .22LR can completely dry and had...

My first good bone-deep chill of the season settled in this past week. I won't really be warm again until April...

After giving away a copy of Parliament of Whores yesterday, I wound up dragging my own copy down from the attic and re-reading it for what ...

Had a good range day at Iggle Crick: 42 rounds of 9x19, 42 rounds of .45ACP, and ~450 rounds of .22LR (that's six mags through each of t...

The four walls of the dining room at Roseholme Cottage sport floor-to-ceiling shelving devoted to naught but my roommate's SciFi books, ...

The citizens of Anytown, TX are getting a good return on their peace officer dollar; Matt G is the kind of cop everybody wishes they had on...

Me: " It's good to know that not only am I still tops with Google for 'face-eating monkeys' and 'horrible screaming de...

The U.S. Navy's Curtis F9C Sparrowhawks are some of the coolest planes ever; sleek little biplane fighters that operated from the rigid...

On this date in 1443, a commander in the army of the Ottoman sultanate switched sides in the middle of the Battle of Niš, helping the Hunga...

...that there's a Blogmeet tomorrow .

The Firearm Blog got me musing about "high capacity" rifles over at the other blog .

How good was Bobbi's bacon mushroom skillet gravy? Well, if Shootin' Buddy hadn't been there, I probably would have just slid th...

As the bumper sticker says, " We don't care how y'all did it up north. "

The absolute tizzy that the press has worked themselves into at the terrible act of lèse majesté committed against their demigod is pretty...

It looks like the autumn leaf crop is just about all in for the year here at Roseholme Cottage. Thanksgiving bumped our trash pickup back on...

Apparently if you go to bed with a stomach full of turducken, bacon mushroom gravy, and wine, and you've just finished reading Monster H...

For schoolchildren and some government employees and office workers, it's a four-day weekend. For much of the rest of America, it's ...