Monthly Archives: October 2010

Where There’s Fire, There’s Smoke!

Posted on October 31, 2010 by popgun

It’s about over, now. We live on a country road with several miles of wooded bottom lands behind our house. Last Thursday, some person decided to burn off a good portion of that area. It turns out it was a … Continue reading →

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Mom

Posted on October 30, 2010 by popgun

Today, October 30, 2010, is the tenth anniversary of the death of my mother. This is her at age 16, which would put it some time in 1944, I think. That makes it about 9 years before I came along. … Continue reading →

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Shannon

Posted on October 29, 2010 by popgun

Shannon was my sister, four years and one month my senior. I don’t know when this picture was taken, but I would guess perhaps at age 9 or 10. Today (October 29, 2010) she would have turned 61 years old, … Continue reading →

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Texas Thinking

Posted on October 29, 2010 by popgun

I found these in a file on my computer, and I don’t know where I got them or I would attribute them. These are a few selected “Favorite Rules of Texas”. Pull your droopy pants up. You look like an … Continue reading →

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New York City and Guns

Posted on October 27, 2010 by popgun

From John Lott’s site, this article: In short, if you live in New York City, you have to be almost as perfect as Jesus in order to qualify to own a gun, in spite of the rulings of the Supreme … Continue reading →

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Obsolete Skills

Posted on October 21, 2010 by popgun

Things I still know how to do that young adults today, probably mostly don’t: Play a record. (You know, round, usually black, plastic disk for reproducing music). Repair a fouled up 8-track cassette. Or mini-cassette, for that matter. Dial a … Continue reading →

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I Want Your Money!

Posted on October 20, 2010 by popgun

I went to see the movie “I Want Your Money” last night, and it was really interesting. This is not a blockbuster, it is not a “great “ movie in the sense that Star Wars was. However, it has a … Continue reading →

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The Funniest Web Page Ever

Posted on October 15, 2010 by popgun

I can’t really say why, but this listing of weird books at AbeBooks.com is probably the funniest thing I have read in a long time. Thanks to The Breda Fallacy for the link. -Popgun

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Another Nail in the Coffin of Global Warming

Posted on October 11, 2010 by popgun

A physicist, in the know, repudiates global warming. Addendum 10/13/2010: Bayou Renaissance Man wrote a good article about this. -Popgun

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42

Posted on October 10, 2010 by popgun

In line with my last post, Weird Stuff, I must report the following: I finally get the joke. Here’s the weird part. This morning, in an idle moment, I was fooling around with PCalc, my favorite calculator program on my … Continue reading →

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