Trego's Mountain Ear

Javier Milei has described his efforts with cutting through government regulations with a chainsaw. I tend to use a little more protective gear than the Argentine President – and, after a year when I lacked the strength to start my saws, I’ve went over to a Stihl Easy2Start.  (I think Milei’s saw is a Chinese Read more

I admit that I thought pardoning Hunter was a bit excessive -I’m familiar with the ATF rules that call for five years in the big house, and wasn’t too impressed.  Still, it only took a couple of weeks for Slow Joe to come up with a pardon that makes Hunter look positively deserving.  Victims of Read more

The term “midwit” is described by its originator at The Coining of the Term: Midwit – Vox Popoli.  The most pertinent phrase is “ A midwit has an IQ in the 105 to 120 range. The very need for the term is derived from the observation that the individual so described possesses a level of Read more

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This article will describe some of the theories – and I’m going to begin with Laurence Peter’s concept, which he humbly termed “The Peter Principle.”  It was a new concept during my second year of college – which means I have had a long professional life to examine his theory. “Incompetence plus incompetence equals incompetence.” Read more

It’s a bit of a challenge to have perfect laissez-faire capitalism in a county where three quarters of the land is owned by the government.  My grandmother spoke of a time when cabins on private land were burned – she believed – by Forest Service employees.  I don’t know whether she was correct – but Read more