Another reason for the supply chain crunch: daft personnel policies

  Looks like the bean-counters are holding the reins at BNSF, one of the country’s biggest rail companies.  A Montana newspaper reports: Freight trains don’t usually run on a set schedule and they don’t stop moving just because it’s a weekend or holiday. However, on the flip side of that unpredictable lifestyle was the fact… Continue reading Another reason for the supply chain crunch: daft personnel policies

Saturday Snippet: Drunk, disorderly and funny

  This will be a very short Saturday Snippet.  I’ve had a heck of a week, with a patio slab being cast and later framed for a roof, our electrical main board being swapped out and re-wired after finding two faults we’ve been living with for six-odd years (that very fortunately didn’t kill us or… Continue reading Saturday Snippet: Drunk, disorderly and funny

Saturday Snippet: Demographics and the rise and fall of nations

  I’m currently reading a very interesting book by Paul Morland titled “The Human Tide: How Population Shaped the Modern World“. The blurb reads: The rise and fall of the British Empire; the emergence of America as a superpower; the ebb and flow of global challenges from Nazi Germany, Imperial Japan, and Soviet Russia. These… Continue reading Saturday Snippet: Demographics and the rise and fall of nations

Sympathy for Bruce Willis

  I was saddened to read about Bruce Willis‘ forced retirement from acting due to aphasia.  I knew very little about the disease/condition, and tried to find out more about it.  Jewish World Review has a good article on the subject. Aphasia is a disorder that robs people of their basic communication skills. It affects… Continue reading Sympathy for Bruce Willis

An alternative view on the transgender dilemma

  On Monday I published an article in my intermittent “Doofus Of The Day” series, highlighting a trans woman (i.e. a man “transitioning” to “become” a woman) who complained of period pains, despite having none of the plumbing, body parts or nerves necessary to experience them.  I also made it clear that in general, I… Continue reading An alternative view on the transgender dilemma

Primitive superstition rears its ugly head yet again…

  The BBC reports: Armed with a sharp knife, a megaphone and dressed all in black, Gbenga Adewoyin could have passed for a medieval witch hunter, a herbal salesman or an urban preacher as he walked around a market in the south-western Nigerian city of Ibadan. Those curious enough to get close in the Gbagi… Continue reading Primitive superstition rears its ugly head yet again…

In Memoriam: Patrick Jake O’Rourke

  Humorist, war correspondent, writer and columnist P. J. O’Rourke has died at the age of 74.  Often labeled as a conservative or right-winger, he was far from the stereotypical images evoked by those labels, carving out his own niche and unafraid to criticize those on the right as much (and as pungently) as he… Continue reading In Memoriam: Patrick Jake O’Rourke

Attention shooters: Bill Jeans could use our help

  The name of Bill Jeans and his training company, Morrigan Consulting, will be familiar to many in the shooting world.  Bill, a US Marine Corps and Vietnam combat veteran, was an instructor for the late Col. Jeff Cooper at Gunsite during the 1980’s, and served as Operations Manager there during much of the 1990’s. … Continue reading Attention shooters: Bill Jeans could use our help

URGENT – Mike Hendrix at Cold Fury needs our help (UPDATED)

  Mike Hendrix, who blogs at Cold Fury, has been admitted to hospital with a case of poisoning that’s turned into a SERIOUS, potentially deadly infection.  I’ll let fellow blogger Big Country Expat (a.k.a. The Intrepid Reporter) explain, from a post he left at Cold Fury, where he’s also one of the contributors. I just… Continue reading URGENT – Mike Hendrix at Cold Fury needs our help (UPDATED)