Winya Curvinake, Sioux wearing buckskin and holding carbine - Heyn Photo - 1900.

Blackhouse, Isle of Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Scotland

Look at that angry sea!   What a great place to have a cozy stone house like that.

Jonah suddenly realizes he's in deep, deep kimchee.

Lumberjack's commute

No HOV lanes on this road.

Grain elevator collapsing, followed by grain dust ignition

The Portuguese have their own Stonehenge

The Xerez Cromlech (Cromeleque do Xerez) is a megalithic structure of standing stones (menhir) around one central stone. The site has been reconstructed since the stones had to be moved to keep them from being submerged by the Alqueva reservoir. They have been placed in a quadrangular shape instead of a circle, which is unusual. Construction is estimated to have taken place sometime between the early 4th to mid-3rd millennium BC. The site is located near Monsaraz, Portugal.

An S-2E Tracker of VS-27 taxies away with wings folding, just after having caught the wire aboard Yorktown during her 1969 Atlantic deployment

Preparing for conflict

Patriot Pantry Emergency Meals Kit, 48 Emergency Food Servings, up to 25-Year Shelf Life

Ditch your TV? I was just mentioning to Mrs. CW how infrequently we use our TV these days.

I don't think I've turned it on for six months!  

The advent of streaming platforms made dent in the case for TV sets as the household's primary media center. After all, why bother saving up for a new TV if you can catch up on a laptop, tablet, or smartphone, especially since those devices offer more degrees of functionality?

Additionally, with on-demand platforms like Netflix, Amazon, and Hulu offering some of the most popular programming around, the days of needing a TV set to tune in to your favorite shows already feel like ancient history.

I've been watching GOT on my laptop.   I can watch any episode from any season anytime I want.  I don't have to catch the latest episode right when it starts, as you do with something you want to see on TV.  As soon as the episode is released, I can start it going at any time of my choosing.  Unbeatable!

TV simply can't compete.  In time, probably a short time, everything will stream over the internet in this way.

It's all going to be about content, and the good content is not on TV, with perhaps the exception of professional sporting events.

Now that our local professional basketball team has returned to it's traditional role of league catfish - sucking on the bottom - there's nothing on any major network or channel that I really want to see.

The Military Coup Against Donald Trump of 2018

Great read from Kurt Schlichter.  It's too bad it's not a lot longer.  I enjoyed the part where Schlichter names prominent libs as enthusiastically supporting the coup - so realistic!

Part One: the Democrats attempt a coup.

Part Two:  The Democrats hang like dogs.

Wrap that in foil to save the juice

Desert Triple

Arlayne Brown, girl sharpshooter, St. Louis, 1929.

GoPro HERO4 Silver

Cabin Porn