Borepatch

In this case, marine diesel engines which used to be famously long lived.  The Detroit Diesel engines of old were famous for running 20,000 ...

TQOTW posted this to the Book of Feces.  Just like the Pope sometimes speaks ex cathedra, TQOTW is speaking from her throne.  So pay attenti...

LOLOLOLOL: There we go. Every nerf gun is now an 80% or greater receiver. If you have a kid with a nerf gun, please let the ATF know you do...

"Green" energy causes forest to be cut down : The ARD’s “Das Erste” reports how satellite images show deforestation has risen 49% ...

Historic 13th century pub could be shut down due to government regulations. T.S. Elliott didn't write The Waste Land about government...

Way to go, Team Green - you now have everyone who used to like you wanting to punch you in the face: These are the Extinction Rebellion ...

During a blackout : Californians have  embraced  rooftop solar panels more than anyone in the U.S., but many are learning the hard way th...

It's going to look like this: Extra off-the-hook-crazy irony points id the lights go out in San Diego but stay on in Tijuana.

So riddle me this, Big Government Man: what happens after a series of separate decisions made over the course of years, each restricting a c...

The problem with many (perhaps most) laws is that the people who write them cannot think through all the consequences of their law/regulatio...

Last week I posted about how wind farms are decimating wildlife , from insects to bats to birds to eagles, because environmentalists are ign...

It was census time, and since a fellow with a (D) after his name occupied 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue it was the GOP freaking out.  Now that...

Adam Piggot muses on how the Labor party lost an "unlosable" election.   The Greens Sink Labor : Queensland won the election fo...

Miguel is simply unimprovable here : If I ever have enough money to go back to school and get another degree, I am going go to New Mexico ...

And sumd00d made three crapy guns from scrap metal and sold them to the State.  Then he took the money and bought a real gun . But sure, t...

There's quite a discussion going on in the comments of the posts here and here .  A really good insight was left in this comment by  Bi...

Shockingly, it seems that Her Majesty's Scepter'd Isle is not so protected by the English Channel as Her Majesty's Government w...

Rather than having to actually, you know, think and work, I'll highlight some posts that struck me as important and well worth your time...

Smartest guys in the room : The idea that taxes cut into existing productive activity, and that as a cost, will be passed on to consumers...

Obamacare requires the use of electronic medical records (and even budgets to help that transition).  This looks to be a massively attractiv...