Category: General

  • Goodbye David

    My father, the Hustler, died this morning, 2020-03-30 at 11:22 EDT.  In calendar terms that represents: 83 years, 3 months, and 14 days.  He was a first-class manipulator, who never met anyone he didn’t feel justified in taking advantage of for his own personal gain.  When I talked to my mother later, she said that…

  • Masticator

    I kept hearing about using a masticator when I was at the Bull Draw fire in August 2018, so I looked it up on youtube after I saw one roll by the ICP on a lowboy trailer.  Check it out: A masticator working to improve the fire line.  That would take care of the bushes…

  • Minnesota from the other side of the Earth

    Toxic Secrets: The town that 3M built – where kids are dying of cancer

  • Fortunes for 2018

    Had Leeann Chin’s for dinner on New Year’s Day and here were my and our fortunes:Now is the time to set your sights high and go for it.Now is a luck time for you – take a chance.Don’t remember which was which, but they’re both good.  Happy New Year!

  • Let’s hope so, it’s Thanksgiving at our house…

    You will be the guest of a gracious host.Fortune Cookie

  • Minnesota “nice”

    It might be nicer not to say “sorry”: A study of more then 1,000 people in Frontiers of Psychology found that people reported feeling more hurt about a social rejection when it contained an apology and that the words “I’m sorry” made people feel obligated to offer forgiveness when they didn’t want to.Time, 2017-10-02 [edited]

  • Finishing School

    We’re not the top species on the planet because we’re nice.  We are a very aggressive species.  It is in us.  And people talk a lot about how well the military turns kids into killing machines and stuff; and I’ll always argue that it’s just finishing school.Karl Marlantes, USMC on Vietnam Episode 5 by Ken…