Woke up with the guitar riff in my brain, haven’t been able to shake it off all day.
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Quote Of The Day
From the Greatest Living Englishman:
The Clarkson’s Farm star admitted that he couldn’t understand how machines can ‘spot what’s happening in every part of your body, apart from your bottom’.
‘They can photograph your ventricles and every bit of your brain, but if they want to know what’s going on with your prostate, which lives in the anus, for some reason, the doctor has to put his finger in there. I can only assume it’s because he likes it.’
As funny as it is, he makes a really good point. Why can’t scans detect bowel/colon/prostate problems?
I await comments from the Leech-People among my Readers.
Good Choice
Back when I used to hunt, I found that when it came to scope magnification, I very seldom used any power higher than 6x — usually 5x — because the loss of field-of-vision made target acquisition very problematic. You see, it may be easy to spot your prey with the naked eye, but when you to try to find it again by looking through a scope set to 15x magnification, sometimes all you see is an aperture filled with leaves, grass or still worse, hair.
Also, those big-ass 5-35x56mm scopes are heavy, Bubba, which is fine if you’re benchresting but a lot less desirable when you have to lug the extra weight atop a serious hunting rifle.
Less, in scope terms, is often a lot better than more — whether in terms of weight or magnification.
So I saw this newcomer to the hunting scene with something akin to pleasure:
Burris Fullfield 2-8×35: The Do-Anything Hunting Scope
Let me tell you, I really like the look of this one: small, compact, and it may be the perfect choice for hunters on a budget.
I’m a huge fan of Burris Fullfield scopes — I’ve owned about half a dozen of the things over the years — because I always found them a perfect compromise between quality, performance and reliability. Sure, there are better scopes, but you’re going to pay a hell of a lot more than $160 or $190 (for the plex and illuminated variants, respectively) to get not much further up the quality curve.
Right now, I don’t have a need for one because my scope needs (for the .22 rifles anyway) are doing just fine. But if one of them were to break or go sour on me, this new Burris would probably be at the top of the replacement list, you betcha.
Making Life Easier
I really like a couple of the new business-friendly laws signed by TexGov Abbott this week, particularly this one:
Abbott also signed into law HB 2464, which prevents local municipalities from imposing regulations on certain home-based businesses.
I was stung by this one myself several years ago. Even though Plano is a very business-friendly town (hence all the corporations headquartered there), there were a couple of regs which made it difficult for a home-based business to operate — especially when related to late-night deliveries (“noise abatement”) and so on. (We frequently used FedEx’s 3am pickup service, for instance, because of deadline issues.)
And frankly, anything which makes it easier and less costly for businesses to open and set up operations is A Good Thing because #Capitalism.
Caption Competition #398
Your suggestions in Comments.
Dept. Of Righteous Shootings
From Chicago, no less. Read it all, but here’s the executive summary:
Just 18 minutes before the shooting, around 10:30 p.m., a gunman robbed a man near the corner of Fulton and Kilpatrick in Austin and drove off with the victim’s gray 2025 Toyota Corolla, according to a preliminary CPD report.
At approximately 10:43 p.m., two women were robbed at gunpoint in the 2500 block of West Haddon in Humboldt Park. The victims, both 27, told police they were outside when a car pulled up, and a man exited the vehicle with a firearm, a CPD spokesperson said. The man demanded their valuables and fled with the victims’ purses, phones, and wallets.
For his third and final act, the robber steered the hijacked Toyota onto the 1400 block of North Artesian at 10:48 p.m. He decided to try to rob a 36-year-old concealed carry holder who was unloading a vehicle on the block, according to CPD.
As the robber displayed a gun and demanded the victim’s property, the victim drew his own firearm and shot the robber multiple times in the chest and head. EMS transported the robber to Stroger Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
I’ve heard of the “three strikes” principle, but this one takes the cake. Clearly, our little 18-year-old choirboy played his property redistribution game just one time too many.
And if you didn’t get the giggles at the “multiple shots to the chest and head” thing, we can’t be friends.
