Thursday, February 6, 2014

How I taught my kids to lie about whether there are guns in our home

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We tell kids to "always tell the truth". But what about situations where it's NOT good to tell the truth? In an age whe...
Thursday, January 2, 2014

Waxing cotton jackets.

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I recently got a Carhartt cotton jacket and wanted to wax it. Items needed: 16oz beeswax 16oz raw linseed oil (the "boiled" ...
Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Gun control is racist, classist, sexist, ageist, classist, and anti-gay.

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Gun control is racist. Google "Black Codes". The first gun control laws were passed to disarm blacks so they could not resis...
Monday, September 19, 2011

"Safes" and safes.

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Regarding "safes" - if it's not UL- or ETL-rated, it's not a safe.  Real safes are rated according to the number of minut...
Monday, July 18, 2011

You don't need AWD/4x4 for a snow car.

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Everyone that actually lives in the mountains zooms around in little rusty manual transmission Civics with snow tires, blowing past all th...
Monday, July 11, 2011

Marin Lombard 2011 review.

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When disc brakes came out 15 years ago, I lusted after having a road bike with disc brakes.  I never got one - until now.  With a 30 mile ro...
Saturday, July 9, 2011

"But I ran out of steam trying to find new ways to prepare swiss chard, kohlrabi, eggplant, and collard greens. "

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This is a common reaction to CSAs. What most people don't realize is that if you're not getting it in your local CSA, it's ge...