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Wednesday, January 06, 2021

The Current State Of Our Union.

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 Oh, did you think that I had forgotten about you all?  No.  As I stated back in the summertime-- we will get through this. But darker times...
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Monday, July 27, 2020

The way things are.

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How are things? The general consensus is: "Not great." A quarter of the nation is unemployed, thanks to a novel virus causing inte...
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Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Live video.

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Thirteen years ago, Ambulance Driver and I, along with BabsRN, did a little compilation post, called "Perspectives." . Ambulance...
Tuesday, June 18, 2019

Cults and Music

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I never did care for anything resembling a cult of any kind. Religion, philosophy, mechanics. But it’s the cult of personality which prob...
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Thursday, April 11, 2019

You matter

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Back in college, I got a job as a fry cook at an ice cream place that sold burgers. It was very poorly paid (college town), and the managers...
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Friday, October 19, 2018

Second-guessing.

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There's nothing like reviewing a body camera, and a car camera, of footage of your use of force, to make you second-guess yourself. I ...
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Work. Small Town Policing.

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I haven't posted a lot, lately. I will admit to having been a bit busy. While our PD is down a man, I've had to step up and work pat...
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Saturday, September 29, 2018

"Look a how mean/distasteful/condescending/dumb/Other-Side he looks!"

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You can generally tell a hit piece, lately, by the photo which accompanies it. As a junior baby wannabe amateur photographer, I will tell ...
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Tuesday, September 11, 2018

It was just a day in September.

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I had worked all night, and come home to find that my wife had the day off, for some reason. She took our daughter to daycare down the block...
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Thursday, August 02, 2018

We aren't playing the music just to hear the applause of others.

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Domestic disturbance. A teen boy put hands on his mother. I arrived, along with a couple of other cops from our shift, because it was shift ...
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Monday, July 16, 2018

You don't get my support just because you like guns.

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Among other things, this is a gun blog. I like guns. I am a member of Gun Culture (X iteration). I demand that my rights to keep and bear be...
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Monday, May 21, 2018

Hit Tam's tip jar.

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Friend Tamara busted her collarbone the other night. This puts a kink in her ever-increasing schedule of activities, in her career as a ...
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Tuesday, May 01, 2018

Shotguns.

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Lately, I get the wants for a new shotgun. A friend asked elsewhere: Should I get a Beretta 1301, or jump on one of these tricked-out poli...
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Wednesday, March 28, 2018

Legal Fiat.

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It's time we talked about " fiat ." Fiat is Latin for "let it be done."   Merriam-Webster's first definiti...
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Sunday, February 25, 2018

How would you like to die?

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Living well is best. Dying well is next best. Living badly is worst. On Valentine's Day of this year, a horrible person murdered 17 p...
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Sunday, January 14, 2018

So that's that.

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Oliver cat passed away this morning, apparently just before I woke up. I notified the family, and then swung a pick to dig a hole in the col...
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Tuesday, January 09, 2018

So is this how it's going to be? Every 5 years?

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For the second time , it looks like Oliver Cat may have cheated death. He's eating, drinking, and looks good. I'm medicating him dai...
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Sunday, January 07, 2018

Sometimes, it's about something else.

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I wrote this last weekend, on December 31st: _______________________________________- “Burglar Bob,” the semi-self-healing full-sized pla...
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Friday, October 13, 2017

Sex crimes

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People ask me how I like my new job as an investigator. I tell them that the hours are nice, but I had no idea how much of my life would be ...
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Thursday, August 31, 2017

Things get better.

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My elder daughter has moved home, after evaluating her financial situation. She didn't flounder; just just saw that she wasn't act...
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