Monthly Archives: September 2006

Judge Juggs: Hayek

Posted on September 23, 2006 by Alaska

 No, not the Nobel Prize-winning economist. Salma! Yesterday’s mention of From Dusk Till Dawn was all it took   for Judge Juggs to become fixated on the lovely Latina.

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Friday Revolvers

Posted on September 22, 2006 by Alaska

I like the Centennial design so much, I started picking up old, beat-up versions of the real thing. All of the below are in .38 Short & Weak (.38 S&W). They averaged about $50 each, but only two of them … Continue reading →

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Rude Indian Restaurant

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Alaska

We only had one bad experience in London, at the Grand Indian 2 in Villiers Street. Here’s a Google map. Right about where the arrow points is an Indian restaurant that should be avoided at all costs. Here’s a street view … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day: Robert B. Parker

Posted on September 21, 2006 by Alaska

From his Early Autumn, a Spenser novel: Paul shifted his grip a little on the shovel and took another stab at the dirt. He got most of it this time. “Don’t they have machines to do this?” “Yes.” I swung … Continue reading →

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Smith & Wesson 940 — “The Beast”

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Alaska

IIRC, it was this month fourteen years ago when I bought my very first gun. I’ve mentioned before my motivations for why I chose a double-action revolver as my first gun. It’s all the fault of Ross Seyfried’s article “Mastering … Continue reading →

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Pocketknives

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Alaska

My daughter and her boyfriend met up with us during our recent belated honeymoon to London and Paris. Boyfriend is about as close to a real-life Tarzan (or, more accurately, Ishi) as I’ve ever encountered. As such, he doesn’t care … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day:

Posted on September 20, 2006 by Alaska

From a comment to this post on Michael Bane’s Blog this past Friday: No matter who you are or what you’ve done with a big bore handgun, you do it better because that man lived. –B.C. Walsh USMC-22nd MEU (SOC), … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day: Heinlein, Again

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Alaska

And yes, it’s some more from To Sail Beyond the Sunset: In April 1898 to us benighted country people certain simple facts were true. Our battleship Maine had been destroyed, with great loss of life. Spain had declared war on … Continue reading →

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Name that Drink

Posted on September 19, 2006 by Alaska

In Colonial times, a mug of this was so valued that it cost three times a night’s lodging in a tavern. (Or maybe the lodging price was super-cheap, to bring in customers to buy the drinks?) …Put the Ale on … Continue reading →

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RNS Quote of the Day: Robert A. Heinlein

Posted on September 18, 2006 by Alaska

From the Master’s semi-autobiographical To Sail Beyond the Sunset: “Gratitude”: An imaginary emotion that rewards an imaginary behavior, “altruism.” Both imaginaries are false faces for selfishness, which is a real and honest emotion. Long ago Mr. Clemens demonstrated in his … Continue reading →

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