Eclipse
How anxious am I to dive into the Philando Castile drama? I’ll put it this way. I have spent the last few days watching and re-watching all five movies from the Twilight saga. I think I watched Eclipse like three…
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Guns & Grabbers
Let’s keep things in perspective: I’m not dying. And actually, this latest total hip replacement surgery has (so far) been a MUCH smoother ride than the first one. But there are a some delicacies in life that people may not fully appreciate until…
read more →Jumping the Gun
I remember that nauseating feeling that overtook me in December of 2012 when I learned that 20 innocents and six of their educators had been murdered in a gun free zone in Connecticut. I also remember how ferociously — and in my…
read more →T-Bot 2.0
So…. It’s been a very interesting few days. 🙂 Productive, too. I finished all my grading for the semester, put out a few fires for my students, belted out one of the most difficult blog posts I’ve ever had to write,…
read more →The Sunken Place
I posted on Saturday that the NRA Convention was going pretty well at that point. Granted, there wasn’t but a handful of black folks there. I personally encountered about 12 out of 82,000. But, hey, it’s a start. More than…
read more →My First NRAAM
Hey folks! Blogging from my phone right now, so my apologies if this isn’t terribly polished. Earlier This year I attended my first SHOT Show and my first IWA, so I figured I might as well keep it up. Here…
read more →Tactical Conference Hangover
I’m not dead! I promise. I almost was, but thank heavens, I managed to pull through, LOL. My extended absence is due mostly to the Rangemaster Tactical Conference, which took place March 17-19, 2017 at the Direct Action Resource Center…
read more →Only A Little
“Seulement un peu, mais pas très bien.” That’s all I could muster when the server asked, “Parlez vous Français?” But, I’m in Germany! I have no idea why the waiter spoke French or why he had the slightest hope that I would too. But I felt the same way I always do when I travel overseas: Kind of like a centrist American douchebag for not being multi-lingual like the rest of the educated world.
read more →So-Called Side Bar
Going off topic here just a wee tad. I know that there are children out there who might not have had civics class yet and adults who might have forgotten theirs. So I just wanted to clarify something before we…
read more →Most Days
Most days, I consider myself extremely lucky to have such a varied hodgepodge of friends and associates from all walks of life. I owe a lot of that to being introduced to firearms.
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