Kate Paulk writes at Sarah’s place on “the ease of evil [https://accordingtohoyt.com/2017/03/21/the-ease-of-evil-kate-paulk/]” and makes a familiar point: > The various Communist regimes can be dismissed as “not counting” because to the minds of those who do the dismissing, Russia, China, North Korea, and Eastern Europe “weren’t civilized”, and so Communism/Socialism would work just fine implemented by civilized people (they usually point to one of the Nordic nations when they do this). These s…
I’d looked in the past at how to do jerky, but hadn’t wanted to buy a dehydrator, and never had an oven around that could go low enough to not cook the meat. Well, Quintus Curtius pointed me in a new direction [http://www.returnofkings.com/116667/how-to-make-beef-jerky], whereupon I felt mildly dumbfounded that I hadn’t thought of it or seen it before. Basically – all you need is airflow. And salt. Oh, and to keep it away from pets not only to not having it get eaten, but if your dog sheds (hu…
Larry Correia is celebrating his 19th wedding anniversary [http://monsterhunternation.com/2017/03/20/today-is-our-19th-wedding-anniversary/] . He writes awesome books too.…
I first saw this years ago, and found it funny then. Recently came across it again at AlphaGamePlan [https://alphagameplan.blogspot.com/2017/03/still-amusing.html]. I was still crawling out of a blue-pill existence then, barely purple pill. Looking back, this is a lot more insightful than I had already given it credit for.…
Jim Fear elaborates a bit [https://jimfear138.blogspot.com/2017/03/clearing-up-some-confusion.html] on his earlier post on hard SF. This paragraph caught my eye: > I view what we’re trying to do here in military terms. Maybe I’ve been listening to Sabaton too much lately, which is entirely possible, but this is how I’ve been conceptualizing it. There is, as I said, a crumbling edifice that I’ll dub Tradpub (yes I stole that from Brian Niemeier shaddap). Tradpub is a kingdom on the decline. It r…