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From Lenin’s Asylum: Two Years in Moldova, by A. A. Weiss (Everytime Press, 2018), Kindle pp. 193-195: Riscani’s town birthday, a day festival called hram, fell on a Tuesday. Only a handful of students had come to school; none of …...
June 9, 2026
Increasingly, rifles and shotguns would appear to be the last-ditch C-sUAS (counter-small unmanned aerial systems) answer. Ukraine is buying thousands of 12-gauge shotguns from Turkey (which makes “Turknellis” of all sorts), and American...
Some 85 years ago, a bit of calm before the storm. Official period caption: “British and Chinese troops on exercise in rubber boats, Hong Kong, 1941.” Note the M1928 Thompson SMG on the bow of the leading boat and SMLEs at the ready. The...
There’s a piece of writing advice that I run across a lot (I’ve even given it). It’s excellent advice, except that it isn’t. Which doesn’t make much sense even to me, so I’m going to try to unpack it a little. The advice? It comes in...
Don’t let anyone tell you that a revolver is too slow. Besides blisteringly fast Single-Action shooters like Bob Munden and the iconic Jerry Miculek, there’s the M39 cannon. We stumbled upon a great static training layout for the gun...
Sullivan Summer Under Review:Rabbit, Fox, Tar. P.C. Verrone. Catapult, June 2026. “To call Original Hill a place alone,” writes P.C. Verrone in his debut novel, Rabbit, Fox, Tar, “would have done it a disservice, for Original Hill was a...
Today’s devotional can easily be summed up with one verse, ““Pride goes before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall.” — Proverbs 16:18”
In the last year, I’ve been struggling a lot with getting sketches down on paper. Often the sketches didn’t match what I wanted to express, or I found them lacking technique-wise. The latter problem, the technique, can be improved with a...
WWDC26: The macOS apology tour.
Am I the only one whose inner monologue has a DJ playing music?
This week’s theme: Miles Davis centennial celebration continues with Miles and Bird, 1947 and 1948. Featured artists include Miles Davis, Charlie Parker, JJ Johnson, Duke [...] The post Podcast: Miles With Bird, Part Two first appeared...
Mic Wright joins Tim Worthington for a chat about Frank Castle going for a stroll around the block only with more hooting in The Punisher: One Last Kill.
📷 133/365 - All quiet after the rain.