Your daily dose of Dada.(H/T to Breda.)...

Hey, remember when liberals were so all-fired “concerned” about illegitimate rule by Executive Order, circumventing the usual legislative process in favor of despotic mandates from On High? Nah, me neither.Like fishing? Tough.Dislike bland food? Tough.This is the Unconstrained Vision in action....

I'm a moderately active pistol shooter. In the last two years I've taken two three-day handgun courses, one with Todd Jarrett at Blackwater and one with Louis Awerbuck here in Indiana. Over that time I've participated in maybe as many as a dozen bowling pin matches. I get to the range once a week and, given the confines of the range rules, attempt ...

Haisong Jiang, a PhD candidate who moved to America from China, perhaps to get away from a paranoid, control-freak government, has plead guilty to "Defiant Trespass" for stepping under a velvet rope at an airport and setting off a Keystone Kops carnival of terminal closings and flight delays.Jiang will have to pay a $500 fine and court fees and cos...

If the authorities are reading this, I want them to know that I am not at all disgruntled. I am as gruntled as gruntled can be. If ever I feel my gruntle ebbing, even the slightest little bit, I promise I will seek help and not act out, okay?(Okay, look, if somebody's obviously gearing up to take their lunch hour atop a clock tower, it may be a goo...

The EMA Tactical CountDown mag: If I've got time to look at my magazine and check its little gas gauge, I'm thinking I've probably got time to just prophylactically reload.The Cammenga EasyMag: Because I was looking at my magazines the other day and thinking "What these things really need are more moving parts."...

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The Department of Fish & Game won't let you shoot Bambi with full metal jacketed 7.62x51mm M80 ball because it would be inhumane.The Hague Accords won't let you use .308 Winchester 150gr. Ballistic Silvertips on enemy personnel because it would be inhumane.Discuss....

On this date in 1804, the French flag was lowered in St. Louis, soon-to-be-MO, and the U.S. flag was raised.The Spanish lieutenant governor for French northern Louisiana handed the keys over to Amos Stoddard, acting as the proxy for the French government, who then handed them to himself, since he was also the newly-appointed U.S. military commander...

A bad economy only slightly deterred Americans from flocking to cosmetic procedures last year. The American Society for Aesthetic Plastic Surgery released figures Tuesday: Almost 10 million cosmetic surgical and nonsurgical procedures were performed in the United States in 2009. Despite the recession, Americans shelled out almost $10.5 billion to g...

Another 5+ miles on the bicycles today, running an errand and grabbing a bite at Panera Bread for lunch. (Riding a bicycle to eat at Panera; does it get more stereotypically Broad Riparian than that?)Gotta pedal off my winter flab......

Hypnagogue in comments here:The problem with biometric ID cards is that they can be forged. Without strong encryption, this is folly. With strong encryption this is tyranny.The problem is that the .gov acts like there was strong encryption on the Constitution and they don't have the right key to read it.More on the topic from Anothergunchick....

As Frank James points out, biometric National Identification cards are about as sure a way to flip out a plurality of the population as I can think of. From privacy advocates to Left Behind fans, this would just pour kerosene on the opposition fire.Go 'head, y'all! I think you should push for this one really, really hard....

The Supreme Court has repeatedly said that the standard for a Terry frisk is whether the officer reasonably suspects the person is “armed and dangerous.” “Armed” alone shouldn’t be enough...Shootin' Buddy, sometimes known as "The Rosa Parks of Broad Ripple" for his run-in with the local Five-Oh over the dangerous crime of open-carrying a ...

One well-known trainer has opined that, with the increasing popularity of "tactical training", it seems like half everybody who's been 'in the sandbox' and has access to some acreage with a berm is going to set up a shooting school. As time goes on, I am increasingly believing this prediction. Exhibit A: Somebody tell me which school this is so th...

When you can get your tramp stamp in the mall, twenty feet away from the people buying Snuggies and ShamWows, it's a sign that the fad has passed the fat point of the cool curve....

I have done some hare-brained things on motorcycles before in my life, many of them at Warp Factor 9, but these guys are lunatics. My palms broke into a sweat just watching the video...(H/T to Nate.)...

With the mercury flirting with the 60 degree mark today, Roomie and I saddled up the bicycles and took a leisurely ride to the grocery store; about a five mile round trip. My poor bike had spent the last two-plus months gathering cobwebs, so it was pleasant to get out on the road again.I had forgotten how much I liked my shoot-me vest as a cycling ...

I've had the weirdest little hit-and-run troll pop up in my comments section.I don't get a lot of 'em, but this one's a doozy. Weirdly cyclical, too.He's a pottymouth, so don't click if you're easily offended: My Pet Troll.Ain't he cute?...

The Hoosier prosecutor who wanted to run the evil DVD dispensing machines out of Vanderburgh County, Indiana has backed off.Maybe somebody pointed out to him that in order for the tots to get their hands on a copy of Saw XLVI or American Pie: Sorority Sisters from one of the automated kiosks, they'd need to have already boosted mommy or daddy's cr...

There are two controls on the M1911 semiautomatic pistol that are designed to make it malfunction: One causes the slide to be frozen in its rearmost position and the other causes the pistol to vomit its magazine onto the ground. And yet every year people spend untold thousands of dollars trying to make these controls easier for their fingers to tou...

Every now and again I mention my ownership of a carbine-length AR and immediately receive comments on the superiority of rifle-length 20" A2's for everything from shooting guys on distant hillsides in Afghanistan to winning DCM matches.You know, I have no intention of competing in any high power matches with this carbine.Nor either am I likely to f...

Wow! Mahmoud's a Troofer! Who knew?Must have been a slow news day.Meanwhile, in Turkey, an earthquake.These tremors are somehow America's fault, and can only be fixed by giving lots of money to Third World dictators so they can reupholster the presidential Bentley with fresh ocelot skins....

...I shot Marksman on the classifier yesterday.I'm sure I could have shaved a little bit of time by using the slide stop on reloads, and the "tactical reload" technique of trapping the old mag with your pinkie is molasses slow compared to ripping out the old one before fishing up a new one, but I was overall happy with my performance.Oddly I don't ...

RX: "You're missing the Oscars!"Me: "Not really, no."And oddly, I am not burning with curiosity over who won Best Best Boy, either.I don't get the fuss over these types of award ceremonies. I already know what I thought the best movies of last year were; what do I care what other people, people I don't even know, thought?Besides, there's no award f...

Not too long back, Jay at Firing Pin Journal asked:One Handgun, One Rifle, One Shotgun. You are able to choose just one of each for self defense with NO modifications.My answer was:Handgun: The pistol on my hip. (Springfield Professional)Shotgun: I’m not really shotgun kind of people.Rifle: The carbine behind the door. (16? M4gery on an RRA lower...

Getting ready to go shooting with Caleb; I've let him talk me into running through an IDPA classifier to see how bad I really am. I'll be tickled if I score better than whatever comes below "Helen Keller".I'll be shooting my Para LTC9, partly because it's got good sights and is ridiculously easy to shoot well, and partly because I'm a lot better st...

How come Lotus has made an "Esprit", an "Elan", an "Exige", a "Europa", an "Elite", but never an "Eater"?...

Okay, so some folks are holding a mock funeral for Internet Exploder* 6. Normally, this wouldn't rate an iota of attention from me because A) I haven't used any version of Exploder for at least five years and B) Going to a funeral for a web browser is about the most depressing and sad, yet marginally social, thing a nerd could do. However in readin...

My head hurts.I'm strongly considering writing off this whole "getting out of bed" thing as a bad idea and just try again tomorrow....

The "guns-in-parking-lots" bill has passed the legislature and is bound for the governor's desk; it's all on my man Mitch now. The prez of the IN Chamber of Commerce is all sad clown about it.Speaking of my man Mitch......

Pistol competition is important. Unless they go to gun school, the local action pistol match is the only chance a lot of people will have to shoot from the holster, or on the move, or at moving targets, or under any kind of competitive or time pressure. Back in, oh, '94 or so, I was peripherally associated with a bunch of folks who had set up their...

If you like military-themed SF, Marko has a short story up for your reading enjoyment: "Lucky Thirteen."...

The gunman was John Patrick Bedell...You know, we could cut this thing out altogether if we'd just pass a law banning middle names....

Despite the fact that the land beyond the Euphrates had been swallowing up Roman armies at least since Crassus and 30,000 of his closest army buddies went walkabout and never came back, Roman emperors couldn't resist meddling in Persian politics.On this day in 363AD, the Roman emperor Julian, his military reputation still surfing on the spankings h...