Snowflakes in Hell

Christina the Stripper, who has guest blogged here in the past, has a new blog called Hustle and Cash Flow. I am told it will mostly be about money. I will add her to the blog roll since she’s was kind enough to guest blog for me. But in what category?

Cam Edwards has some good thoughts on the potential revival of The Fairness Doctrine:

The bottom line is this:  those who want to regulate speech live in a very bad time to do so.  Gone are the days when you needed a printing press or a broadcasting license to share your opinions with the world.  The genie’s out of the bottle, and it’s not going back in.

Yup!  Read the whole thing.

Clayton Cramer is talking about the “poisoned well” that the gun control movement has created that’s causing a lot of gun owners to see HR2640 as a gun control bill, when it’s really no such thing. He’s absolutely right that the gun control movement has created an environment where there’s substantial mistrust even on bills that ought not to be controversial. Trying to screw us every chance they get tends to do that. My main concern for the bill isn’t that it’s gun control, but that it can be spun as such by those who push for it, and build their political capital for future battles. On the flip side, they also couldn’t get anything done without having to offer significant concessions to NRA concerns.

I’m thinking about changing my blog host setup.   Currently, I host the front end of the blog on my Linux workstation, and host the back end on my MythTV DVR system.   Since I’ve gotten the MacBook Pro, I’m finding I never use the Linux workstation anymore, so all it’s doing is consuming power hosting a blog front end.   I could get a single server to act both as my DVR and blog host, and anything else I might want it to do.  If I’m going to consolidate both machines, I’ll probably get a new case, and a few larger hard disks so I can make a RAID5 array, to guard against data loss in the event of drive failure.  I might as well make it a dual core box as well.  I’ve not noticed either machine having a hard time with blog traffic.  The only time I noticed it was in the middle of an Instalaunch.

The real question is whether I want to shell out 500 or so bucks when it’ll take a while to recover that in energy savings.

Sailorcurt has the e-postal results up.  Looks like I managed to beat Ahab.  I forgot about tie breaking rules!   I am quite happy with my placement.   This is the kind of shooting I practice most often, so when we return to precision shooting, I’ll probably fall back down in the ranking again.

The cool thing about these e-postal matches is that they cover such a wide array of shooting disciplines.  You might suck up the page on one match, and dominate the field on another.   Try the next one out.  It doesn’t matter how good or bad you are, because you’ll get better.  I’m finding it’s getting me to the range a lot more, which is improving my shooting quite a bit over what it was four months ago.

Hopefully the next one will allow me to go back to .22LR, because I blew through a few hundred rounds of 9mm (not cheap these days) practicing up on double taps before heading to the range this Monday to shoot the submitted targets.

Ahab has an update on yesterday’s thread.   Which is good, because of the decosomilining last night, I have nothing this morning.