Hm. I thought I put this band up before now. Well, it certainly fits my preferences for female-fronted power metal.
Month: April 2019
Tab Clearing
Work is insane right now, so I’ve got a bunch of articles I’d love to do more analysis, but I will have to just settle for letting my readers do their own.
National Review takes on the leftist view of a typical concealed carrier.
FEE discusses the humanity in the gun control debate.
An American Thinker article on whether or not the Second Civil War has begun. I think a Second Civil War will look less like the First Civil War and more like Beirut in the eighties or the breakup of Yugoslavia.
Reason discussing why the right going down the identity politics road is far more dangerous. Honestly, I worry about what happens if the Threeper continent is ever moved to true violence.
War Is Boring talking over the current Army program to replace the current small arms.
Finally, The Brother turned me on to this little site that prints pictures into glass. One of The Wife and me on our wedding day is hanging in my home office.
Friday Quote – Milton Friedman
Most economic fallacies derive from the tendency to assume that there is a fixed pie, that one party can gain only at the expense of another.
Reasons I Love My Wife
The Wife has stated on multiple occasions that she hates competing against me at Toastmasters. At our last meeting, the club president ambushed – I mean, asked – if The Wife and I would be evaluators for the two speakers. She agreed without realizing we would be competing against each other. So, you can imagine how pleased she was when she won Best Evaluator.
And how did my blushing bride of less than a month express her glee? By turning to me, brandishing her ribbon, and in front of the club, declared “Suck It!”
It was fucking hilarious! I love my wife.
Strange New Worlds
Since The Wife has come into my life, I have not only gone out to shop for various items (as opposed to purchasing online), but I have regularly trekked into places I wasn’t even sure what they sold.
Places I have been to more in the last eighteen months than in the previous forty years:
- TJ Maxx
- Hobby Lobby
- Ross
- Marshall’s
- Home Goods
I’m sure there’s a pattern.
Metal Tuesday – Avantasia – Book of Shallows
Anastasia dropped a new album, and it doesn’t disappoint. Here’s a good track.
What’s Your Bank’s Rating
Via Sebastian. A gun control group decided to rank the banks on how virtuous their signaling is in regards to “teh gunz.” Of course, we can use it in reverse.
How does your bank rank? My mortgage is through Wells Fargo, but beyond that I do all of my banking through a local credit union.
Friday Quote – Henri Poincare
The scientist must order. Science is made with facts like a house with stones, but an accumulation of facts is no more science than a pile of stones is a house.
Schadenfreude SPLC Edition
It seems the Southern Poverty Law Center has run into a bit of trouble.
Of course, it wouldn’t be a post without the obligatory Reason link.
This is the same group that declares anyone it dislikes as racist, regardless of actual evidence other than being slightly more to the right than Morris Dees. Then the SPLC demands companies use its list of “racists” to deplatform others. When a news organization tells me that their figures come via SPLC, I know the story is about as trustworthy as politician in re-election mode.
I’m hoping this is the downfall of a corrupt organization.
The Zuck Wants Hisself Some Regulation
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg penned an op-ed calling for regulations on the internet. Reason has its analysis.
From a crony capitalist standpoint, the Zuck is playing it smart. Facebook and the other big players in tech can play the compliance game to keep out competitors. Better to get out in front and help write the regulations rather than let Congress (or whichever agency Congress delegates writing the regs).