The Abode of McThag

"Against this backdrop, our coequal branches will be surprised to learn that the rule they thought long settled, and which remained unc...

The heart of our increasingly Orewellian government is the administrative state. The administrative state drew most of its power from the Ch...

Gotta take 'em apart and give 'em some love every once and a while. Doing Willard's Model 69 .44 Combat Magnum because I have th...

It's amazing how much difference 3 degrees makes in comfort. AC is set to 76 and I woke up thinking, "it's a little warm in her...

  I enabled the beep on lock feature with my OBDSync software today! It's something I felt the car was missing for a long time and...

Now that Chevron is repealed , what does the law say about that 4473? Or "once a machine gun always a machine gun?" Is "redes...

I noticed that The Beast has SPID code FE9 and Marv's has NE1. These are the codes for the emissions. FE9 is Federal emissions standards...

Drove down near Miami to let Marv join the PPV Cult (One of us!  One of us!  One of us!  One of us!  One of us!) It was my first time down A...

I'm having trouble with watching "news" on YouTube. I click on the video based on the headline. By the time they get to talkin...

Way back when... I had a Springfield Armory USGI M1911A1. I toyed with replacing the locking mainspring housing with a genuine USGI one beca...

  When a shower curtain becomes unserviceable, I put Harvey on the case. My only requirement is they be "fun." My shower is in th...

The accumulation of hard water deposits finally killed my shower head. So I decided to try something different. This is an experiment to see...

There's two subjects that need to be mandatory in K-12 schooling. And not just teaching it, but they need to be passed before the studen...

I applied for and received a discharge of my student loan. Contrary to the conservative narrative it was not a Biden policy initiative that ...

The Dems are pulling out all the stops to scare teh wimmins about abortion bans if Trump is elected. In lots of places, it's now much ha...

Something that the AD&D rules did well that GURPS never did at all was clearly define the roles for the party. A dungeon crawl needed a ...

If the hometown team didn't make it, we're willing to accept the other team in the state did. Congratulations to the Florida Panther...

Marv has caught the PPV bug from me. We went an looked at a 2011 example today and the dealer was asking $10,300 and would come down to $10,...

Local rapper Julio Foolio was murdered in Tampa. Apparently he was a member of a gang and they are at war with another gang. It's a stat...

I'm drinking blue milk and eating light-side Oreo cookies and I still won't watch The Acolyte. Fight me, Disney.

6th Edition is going to be called One D&D? I guess 7th will be D&D 360. 8th will be D&D Series X then 9th edition will be D&...

The first commercially viable automatic transmission, the Hydra-Matic went on the market in 1939 in the Oldsmobile Series 60. The first torq...

And neither team is mine... The Florida Panthers have gone from a 3-0 lead in the series to a 3-3 tie that will get settled on Monday night....

US v Rahimi came to the conclusion that I expected. The 2nd Amendment doesn't protect your right to a weapon if you're under a domes...

I love the look of a car that's lowered down to the deck. But just for looking at. Owning one and dealing with it isn't for me. The ...

Maybe I should say, "kids these days," too. On page 38 of the June 2024 issue of Shooting Illustrated there's an article talki...

I keep re-reading section 230 and I can't help but think we've already solved this problem; but lawyers broke the clear meaning and ...

Donald Sutherland passed on. 88 is a good run.

There's black people who're saying they don't want us white people celebrating Juneteenth. Why can't we? If I were bitter an...

Normally you work your way from the caliper farthest from the master cylinder to the nearest. The Beast goes from farthest from the ABS mod...

Flushed out Marv's brake lines on his Impala SS the old fashioned way! We'd have used the pressure bleeder that JT generously loaned...

There's been a murder near Tampa. The deceased was driving a nearly new Mercedes. I will speculate about motive. Mercedes and New Tampa?...

 I bought this book as a group of six Andre Norton books. I last read this book when I was in 9th grade, but that's not why I bothered p...

The think that stood out to me about Chuck Schumer's little Father's Day grilling photo op wasn't the temperature of the meat, b...

"Foreigners committed 77% of solved rape cases in Paris in 2023, according to data from the Paris Police." - Visegrad 24 on X The ...

How do you figure the age of your car? By some metrics, the oldest car in my fleet is also the youngest. Moxie has the fewest miles on her, ...

It's been 16 years since I last spoke to my father. He called to tell me that his mom, my grandma, had passed on.  A week after the fune...

Facebook Marketplace has the same search engine as Amazon for giving you results that are only tangentially related to what you're looki...

Remember when June was Men's Mental Health Awareness Month?

I was sitting here trying to figure out how being a nut case conspiracy theorist amounted to defamation. Finally read up on Mr Jones' ca...