Up or Out is no longer common in business, except for the cutthroat ranks of management consulting, Wall Street, and Big Law. (And hiring McKinsey’s self-serving consultants, for instance, is often a fatal move for a firm). For a very long time, up-or-out has been the iron rule of the Army’s very large, but very …
At the moment you read this, Your Humble Blogger is on an airboat in the Everglades or somewhere like that, and can’t make a long post. But here’s a thought that probably deserves some honest discussion, ladies and gentlemen: Of all the problems in the US military today, the most fundamental and damaging is careerism, …
Sure you do! Who could forget that face? We could have run his mugshot again like we did last Friday, but for some inexplicable reason we find the image of him on the right more satisfying. Maybe it’s because he’s a cop-killer, who shot down police officer Debra Clayton, and whose flight led indirectly to the …
In an entirely unexpected turn of events, ATF has reclassified completed and even so-called “80% lowers” with a fake auto sear marking as machine guns, depending on who makes them. Here’s an image of one such receiver the Bureau has taken custody of and ordered destroyed. The problem is that fake sear hole. Marking such a receiver …
Even a unique and special snowflake must obey the laws — of physics. How do you get killed by snow? Be underneath a cornice when someone sets off an avalanche gun or charge, in this case. The victim has been identified as Joe Zuiches, a 42 year-old resident of Olympic Valley and a member of …
There’s some good prices here on some presumably overstocked or about-to-sunset MagPul gear, including $10 AK mags (older model, sand color only)… …and $16.41 25-round G2 window mags for DPMS/KAC type 7.62mm ARs. This includes the S&W M&P10 and the Colt LE901, but does not include the DPMS GII. The mags work in the second-gen DMPS gun, but …
Mark Baumer, a man on the weirder side of eccentric, posted this recently. Now he really feels like a ghost! Didn’t we just have this one a week or so ago? Not exactly… this one is different, in the specific way in which the decedent’s Hubris summoned his Nemesis. Apart from that, this is a story …
Now, we’re not Andrew Branca, and we don’t have a Barracks Lawyer License, even, but we’re thinking that these two cases of claimed self-defense have… problems. ITEM: Zero-Dark-Twenty-Five. And Drunk. The first is the weakest. It begins at 0125 hours in a strip club in Key West. The shooter, one Derek David of Denham Springs, …
We don’t know, yet, what Gary Wallock was mixed up in. If he was mixed up in the kind of thing where you can get whacked, he should have been a lot more keyed towards Condition Yellow than he was. As it was, the guy never had time to grasp what was about to hit him. …
True, with only teeth, he didn’t kill the guy. He just bit his ear off. Who does he think he is, Mike Tyson? Both men are from Mexico, Pittsburgh’s Action 4 News reported. According to the victim, the accused attacker was in a rage over “what could be coming for him” under President Donald Trump. …