I was preparing this post (with a link to Driving Home For Christmas) when I read that the song’s composer Chris Rea died just a few days ago.
Sometimes, the universe has a shitty sense of humor. Although I have to say that this one made me giggle a bit:
Reader Mike L. sends me this astounding list of booze consumption:
Wait… we Texans spent more on booze per capita than Floriduh? Musht be shome mishtake.
Anyway, I can see why the states at the top are where they are, viz. a) it’s fucking cold there, and b) there’s not much else to do when the snow is fourteen feet deep, and you can only have sex so many times a day until your cousin starts complaining. Then again…
Yeah, this one’s going to turn out well for them:
Jaguar’s last ever petrol car came off the assembly line at the brand’s Midlands factory on Friday (19 December) ahead of its daring switch to all-electric vehicles next year.
The final Jaguar model with a combustion engine under its bonnet is an £80,000 high-performance F-Pace SVR SUV finished in black paint, according to the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club, which was in attendance as the Solihull factory officially signed off its last petrol model.
Under the bonnet is a burbling 5.0-litre supercharged V8 petrol engine – a stark contrast to the first ‘new Jaguar’ that will debut next year, which is a near-silent four-door GT that will cost almost twice as much, with a quoted £120,000 to £140,000 starting price.
While parent group JLR made no official announcement of the event, the Jaguar Enthusiasts’ Club says the final model is being gifted to the Jaguar Daimler Heritage Trust in Gaydon, where it will be retained as a museum piece.
The club said Friday was a ‘quiet, historic full stop’ for Jaguar’s 90-year relationship with the internal combustion engine.
Yeah, and they’re celebrating this piece of boneheaded idiocy?
No wonder the car, and the staff, are all wearing black:
I think a better payoff line would be:
“Pissing Away 90 Years Of Jaguar Heritage”
Oh, and “full stop” is what’s going to happen to Jaguar’s EV sales, but let’s not spoil the party.
I’ve always wondered why the excellent Aguirre y Aranzabal (AyA) gunmakers get no love from American shotgunners — love that would be richly deserved, I think. And here, Jonny Carter talks about them with a boffin from Holts. As one commenter notes, it’s always a pleasure to listen to knowledgeable people talk about guns.
Take 20 minutes out of your day, and enjoy.
I would own an AyA shotgun any day of the week. Take some time now and browse their offerings at their website.
That may take you longer than 20 minutes, though.
Friend and Reader Hank T. sends me a link to a website I’ve not seen before (and it has a most excellent title). The post itself shines a light on the usual totalitarian reindeer games:
After leftists fundamentally transform a country, people must be prevented from escaping. South Africa is no exception.
A storm is breaking over the South African Afrikaner remnant. What is being framed publicly as a diplomatic incident is, in reality, an act of war carried out covertly and deliberately. We are bearing witness to something far more sinister than an isolated raid. This is a convergence point, political treachery, racial targeting, and spiritual warfare colliding in the open.
On Tuesday, December 16, 2025, a U.S.-affiliated refugee processing center in Johannesburg was raided by South African officials wearing khaki uniforms. The facility had been operating quietly, processing asylum applications from white South Africans, many of them Afrikaner farmers, under provisions authorized by executive order. The raid was calculated, hostile, and executed while U.S. immigration agents were on site. It was not just interference. It was a direct act of aggression.
These agents were forced to flee.
Calls to mind the construction of the Berlin Wall, dunnit?
At this point, I’d believe anything about the foul South African government, who are doing things to the people that are far, far worse than the evil apartheid regime ever did.
In case anyone thinks I’m exaggerating on this, here’s something to ponder: at no point during the apartheid years did the government ever allow and encourage ordinary White people to slaughter Blacks without fear of prosecution. Ask any White farmer how that’s going right now.
What saddens me is that when you talk to White South Africans, as I do regularly, they persist with the moonbeam nonsense about how beautiful the country is and how things aren’t as bad as portrayed.
Uh huh.
Of course, this is going to end in tragedy.
