About Mike
Administrivia
Affiliations
Awards and Decorations
Education
Links
Looking for Me?
Media Coverage
Military Record
Politics, Philosophy
Previous Incarnations
Projects, Hijinks, Scandals
Published Works
Quote of the Day
Random Shots
Social Life
Welcome to The Dark Side
Work History

Around the Web

AFF
Arms Directory
Bastyon
BitChute
Codias
Diaspora*
Ello
Facebook
Fetlife
Flote
The Freedom Cell Network
Gab
G2G
Gettr
Gorf .pub
Instagram
Internet Deputy
Liberty.Me
LinkedIn
Live Journal
MeetMe
meetup.com
MeWe
Minds
Myspace
Odysee
OKCupid
OnlyFans [OF]
Parler
POF
Rumble
Spreely
Tagged
Tribel
Truth Social
Twitter
VK
Wimkin
Wordpress (Automattic)
Xanga
Xephula
YouTube

Sites, Blogs, Etc.
Worth Reading

2600: The Hacker Quarterly
A Human Right
Analog SFF
Ars Technica
Rex Curry
Eye on Albuquerque
The TOFSpot
H+
Kn@ppster
L. Neil Smith
The Libertarian Enterprise
Liberty
Linux Format
Questioning Main Stream Assumptions,
by Robert Jackman AKA "Julius No"

Reason
The Rio Grande Foundation
Samizdata
Doug Stanhope
Vin Suprynowicz
Survival Blog
The War on Guns
Wired

Good People

Appleseed Project / RWVA
Fully Informed Jury Association
Firearms Policy Coalition [FPC]
Gun Owners of America
Institute for Justice
International Society for Individual Liberty
Keep and Bear Arms.com
Libertarian Futurist Society
Libertarian International Organization
Pink Pistols
Privacy International
Rio Grande Foundation
Transparency International

Sites with Useful Stuff

freewarehome.com
pendriveapps.com
pendrivelinux.com
portableapps.com
Project Gutenberg

Copyright © Mike Blessing. All rights reserved.
Produced by KCUF Media, a division of Extropy Enterprises

Random Shots for Sunday, 31 December 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

Posted to Facebook —

So Scalzi isn’t becoming irrelevant fast enough for his tastes, so he’s seeking to accelerate his irrelevance? I’m well past 0.08 BAC (thank you, Makers Mark! (I’ve been working nights since 2016. Sue me.)), and still couldn’t think this […]

Random Shots for Saturday, 30 December 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

Posted to Facebook here and here —

Metal SupermarketsThursday, December 28, 2017 at 7:31am

While invisible to the naked eye, the microscopic spikes on the surface of this new form of stainless steel can actually kill bacteria.

Researchers Create Bacteria-Killing Steel Nanospikes

Random Shots for Friday, 29 December 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

Posted to Facebook —

Here’s the page for the Mavic Pro. Nothing on there (that I could find, anyway) about how much time it needs for the battery to recharge, or if you can swap out a depleted battery for a fresh one.

[…]

Random Shots for Thursday, 28 December 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

Posted to Facebook —

Better yet, move UN headquarters 500 miles to the east of its present location.

The fact that it would be in the middle of the Atlantic is the UN’s problem.

Posted to Facebook —

The phrase “Redundant Bullshit” is […]

Random Shots for Wednesday, 27 December 2017

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

Bantam Books — Bat Hardin: The Towers of Utopia by Mack Reynolds Metallica — Ride the Lightning Master of Puppets The Sportsman Channel — Guns & Ammo TV Oath Keepers — ‘Designated Gun-Grabber’ Shows Insidiousness of Hollywood Propaganda by David Codrea […]

Random Shots for Tuesday, 26 December 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

Posted to Facebook —

Xe (ze?) flew a good ten feet through the air between getting hit by the truck and landing on the road surface.

Maybe vis (ver?) parents (?) didn’t instill into vim (ver?) the concept of “look both ways before […]

Random Shots for Monday, 25 December 2017

Today in history

COMMENTS I’VE POSTED

Posted to Facebook —

http://castaliahouse.com/the-last-jedi-is-star-wars-for-people-who-hate-star-wars/

Posted to Facebook —

“Every Person, Their Own Nation”

Posted to Facebook —

I’m on Diaspora*, MeWe, Minds, seen.life, VK —

https://dia.so/mikewb1971

https://mewe.com/i/mikewb11971

http://minds.com/mikewb1971

http://seen.life/profile/mikewb1971

https://vk.com/mikewb1971

So far, Diaspora* seems to be the best of the bunch.

Of […]

Kevin Bloody Wilson — “Hey, Santa Claus”

[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=af7LwnA913g&w=560&h=315]

Random Shots for Sunday, 24 December 2017

Today in history

LISTENING / READING / WATCHING

Metal Church — Masterpeace Analog Science Fiction and Fact, November / December 2017 — pp. 72-74: “Luscinia,” by Robert Reed p. 75: “Quantum Entanglement,” by Fred D. White Metallica — Kill ‘Em All

[…]

Santa Claus on “Benevolent Government” — Ron Paul’s 2017 Christmas Message

Ron PaulFriday, December 22, 2017 at 7:35am

Government is not Mother Teresa.

It’s not “caring,” or “compassionate,” or “humanitarian.”

It doesn’t “help” the poor . . . . It multiplies them.

It doesn’t “run the economy” . . . . It destroys it.

It doesn’t “spread freedom” . […]