The pronoun fight

Posted on October 1, 2019 | Comments Off on The pronoun fight

“This French teacher was fired for refusing to speak in a certain way that violated his conscience. He had pledged to refer to this girl by her chosen name in order to avoid the pronoun fight, but the school’s leaders deemed that insufficient. Instead, they pursued a transgender ‘crusade’ against the heresy of biological reality and traditional beliefs about men and women.”

Amazing that you can be fired for not playing this PC game. Glad I’m retired.

Via PJMedia

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Starship prototype

Posted on October 1, 2019 | 3 comments

Turns out that Elon Musk’s SpaceX isn’t just about shipping people and goods to NASA’s space station, but, some day, a trip to a nearby star. Not sure why he built this, near Boca Chica in the Rio Grande Valley on the Texas-Mexico border, when we haven’t even gone back to the moon yet, much less Mars.

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Updating

Posted on September 30, 2019 | Comments Off on Updating

Our new electric range is supposed to come today, and at least one painter to do the bathrooms in “cheerful yellow,” a Sherwin-Williams color. And the marble/porcelain sinks installed on Wednesday.

Now we’re trying to decide whether to paint the hallway light purple and the dining room light blue, or the other way around. But at least the appliances will be done with the stove.

Then it’s on to replace the water heater, which could be a bear as the building codes have changed since the old one was installed in the 1980s. Hard to believe it’s that ancient, but out-of-sight (ensconced in a closet) out-of-mind. And nowhere else to put it despite changed measurements with the building codes.

UPDATE:  The range came and is installed, but the painters aren’t coming until Thursday. After the counter tops and sinks go in Wednesday.

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L’Shana Tova Y’all

Posted on September 29, 2019 | Comments Off on L’Shana Tova Y’all

Apples and honey, and all that jazz. Wishing you a sweet, happy and healthy Jewish new year, which begins at sundown.

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The Ruger LCPII

Posted on September 28, 2019 | Comments Off on The Ruger LCPII

A small ACP 380 that “you can put this in a wallet holster, a pocket holster, an ankle holster, you can carry it inside your waistband, you can tuck it into an off-body holster inside your purse or backpack, and it’ll fit pretty much any space you can dedicate to it.”

Small caliber, yes, which needs accuracy, but easy to carry every day.

Via Instapundit

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As Milton Friedman would note

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Posted on September 27, 2019 in Bureaucracy, The Economy

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The curious case of the robins

Posted on September 26, 2019 | Comments Off on The curious case of the robins

Barbara Ellen first noticed the robins in the trees in the canyon off the porch at the mini-rancho. Two of them at first, then three, then four, then six. American Robins.

They usually aren’t found here in Central Texas until winter when they flee the cold in points north. And they do it in roaming flocks, hence the six we’re now seeing daily. But in November, not September. Why are they here so early and in the midst of a prolonged heat wave and bad drought? No wild berries to eat now, which constitute 60 percent of their diet.

Bar speculates that their early arrival means we’re in for an early and prolonged winter. Maybe. But first we’re likely to have a flood. Droughts hereabouts usually end that way.

UPDATE:  Turns out there are wild berries in the vicinity. I spied them out with my trusty binoculars. So the robins ain’t starving while they’re here.

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