Lining up?
Wait, give me a second to line up my fingers… ah, there ya go:
Author: Kim du Toit
Four Down, Six To Go
Okay, maybe three and seven out of the ten listed. (I read Undaunted Courage, about the Lewis & Clark expedition, not Lewis’s account, but that should count for something.)
Of the others, Storm of Steel impressed me the most. Ernst Jünger must be the greatest soldier who ever lived, if for no other reason that he survived all four years of WWI in the trenches of the Western Front, not as some staff flunky or quartermaster’s orderly, but as a front-line rifleman. And not a whiny little brat like Remarque‘s Paul, either: just a man of steel — which could have been the title of his book, come to think of it.
I’ve been wanting to read Last Train for years, but just never got around to it. Ditto Death Company, if for no other reason than to fill in the many gaps of my knowledge of the Italian Front. Both duly ordered.
I’ll get after the rest in due course — it’s an excellent list, so thanks to the folks at Intellectual Takeout for that. (If they aren’t on your list of daily reads, fix that now.)
Missed A Couple
The bad 170, according to Fatboi Pritzker’s Illannoy.
This is just going to drive up the prices of Garands, M1 Carbines, ordinary SKS rifle, and so on.
That said: it’s not gonna stop there.
The list of about 170 different semi-automatic guns now banned in Illinois could change with state police granted the authority to update the list “as needed.”
Possession of guns legally purchased before Gov. J.B. Pritzker signed the measure Tuesday are grandfathered in, but owners must eventually register each weapon’s serial number. Illinois State Police are to develop the registry with gun owners required to comply by Jan. 1, 2024. Violations could be a Class 2 felony.
Bastards.
Random Gripe
Why oh why do these women keep doing this to me?
And it’s all very well to say, “Oh, if it bothers you that much, don’t open the links” — like that’s an option.
And FYI: the pics contain links to the offending articles. Welcome to MY world.
Quote Of The Day
‘I’m not rude – I’m just French’
…”and you have to forgive me because I’m Eva”:
Okay.
Update: Predictably, the Frogs are protesting.
No Shrinking Violet
Back in the days when men were men and women knew how to deal with them, such an exchange would have been commonplace:
Laura Woods, by the way, is a Brit TV sports hottie:
Note that she didn’t start wailing about “trolls” and “#MeToo” or “online abuse” or any of the modern-day grrrrls’ complaints. Nope; she stepped up and
…which is what he deserved.