Welcome back to the scuttlebutt, Here, have a seat, the bar’s open, what’s your pleasure? In the last week, I’ve had several experiences that have echoed the same theme, so I thought I would discuss it here. First, let me do a follow up on the post last week and the “state of…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt, Have a cup of coffee and pull up a chair, this is not a booze moment, this is dead serious stuff. See that map up there? The counties or cities that have county like status in the Commonwealth of Virginia in various shades of green have passed “second…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt, Welcome back, here have a shot, (unless you have the duty, in which case I owe you one) So Soleimani is dead. Good. The man was a cheap rip off of Henrik Himmler, crossed with Iron Felix. Taking him out was at least as significant as taking out…
Good Morning and welcome to the scuttlebutt. Hey, it’s a brand new year, let’s take a look at some of the stuff the old guy handed off to the baby to enact! (in other words, stuff that had passed to become law, effective Jan 1 2020. California has a new red flag…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt, Hey, have some of the eggnog, hope you aren’t driving. I hope everyone had a great Christmas/Yule/Hanukah and that you’re stuffed with all the good food. Let’s talk movies. Now a lot of people of my acquaintance, and especially of my political and science fiction politics (oh,…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt, Grab a cuppa and have a seat. It occurs to me that the title of this piece could lead you to think this is going to be a political discussion… Nope. Look, we all know that this whole impeachment process is kabuki theater. It’s nothing but Democrats posturing…
Welcome back to the scuttlebutt, It’s going to be a difficult discussion, so let’s just get it over with. At the end of the week last week, after press time for this blog, we had a pair of shooting events in quick succession at Naval bases. This will be the after-action report on…