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I met Milady online. Yeah, when I was single, I put up an ad on Yahoo! Personals. Anyway we hooked up online and chatted for a couple of w...

I was just over at Facing South , which bills itself as "blogging for a progressive South" and in this post , stumbled upon this h...

From time to time we come across a good deal in bullets, and blemished bullets are one of those good deals. Sometimes the bullet manufacture...

From the Dead Pelican , we get this story from the LSU Reville . It seems that students are being denied financial aid because of drug convi...

When we reload, the brass is "sprung" in that it had to expand to release the bullet that we last fired. This makes the cartridge...

For those of you who have been reading this little blog, you know I recently cast some 311041 bullets with a new mold. You also know that I...

Politics in Louisiana makes for strange bedfellows, and what our elections lack in rational substance, they sure make up in pure entertainme...

I'm watching the New Orleans returns and I am reminded of an election we had in Natchitoches twenty years ago. One incumbent politician ...

I like good ribs. Pork spareribs cooked slowly over an open fire. Milady likes ribs. Likes them a lot. The problem with cooking ribs is ...

This has got to be one of the nightmares of police work. LAFAYETTE — A St. Martin Parish sheriff’s deputy shot and killed a Cade man late We...

Five teenage students in Kansas were arrested after the school district uncovered a plot to shoot fellow students and staff members. The boy...

When we cast bullets, we establish a rhythm and we let the metal flow into the mold, whack the sprue, drop the bullet on a soft cloth, then ...

Milady is sleeping today, having worked the vampire shift last night, so I have to be quiet around the house. When she and I both work, tha...

First, go get some tissue. You gotta go over to Xavier's and read this .

Liquor laws are funny, in that they are different everywhere you go, and the locals in each case believe that they have come up with the per...

Xavier wants pictures of carry pieces. Well, here are two of my favorites. The top, a Kimber 1911 is my duty piece that sometimes does jour...

I've always prefered to cook on charcoal or a wood fire if I am cooking outdoors. Within the confines of The Frugal Outdoorsman , we ag...

Well, it's a little past noon, so who's counting? It's a slow news day, so I thought I'd tell you a story about a young cop,...

I hooe I spelled that right. I can't see but about half the screen. I went to my opthamalogist this morning for an annual checkup. Sh...

I check my referral logs fairly frequently. It gives me a good idea who is sending traffic to this piddly little blog. After my Sex-offend...