That's it for this one, folks.  Had a brief email exchange with another Eponymer and we basically confirmed each other's suspicions.

The adventure will now continue--or resume--at the old Blogonomicon.

I decided to just use Blogger since I'm already familiar with it and there are still all my original old archives there.

Another sad thing is that Eponym's blog export never worked, not even when everything else did.  I have manual saves of everything, so I can do manual reposts of the popular posts, if I want.

So I'll be getting things going over there again.  Although I can't make it look exactly like this one, I did manage to kind of preserve the general flavor.

Eponym was great while it lasted.  Too bad the folks behind it decided to bail on us.

Access to the dashboard comes and goes.  I'll keep plugging along as long as I can.  If it doesn't get back to normal, I'll just resume operations back at my old Blogspot blog.

Does anyone know how to get Scribefire to work with Blogger?  I know it's supposed to, but I can't get it to.

I haven't gotten a reply to my tech support email yet.  Not even an auto-response.

And I don't know if this post will actually show up.

The contact form for Eponym support was still working, so I asked what's going on.

It doesn't look good, though.  I'll be taking a break until I figure out what to do next.  Right now I'm looking at WordPress.

I don't know if I'll just continue with my blogging as it has been.  I make take this opportunity to go undercover and start blogging anonymously.

We'll see...

UPDATE:  The dashboard is back.

I've noticed some minor recurring problems with the blog lately, and in the last couple of days they have gotten worse.  I can still post (I think) using Scribefire, but I can't bring up my dashboard.  Right now I can't even bring up the blog itself.  The Feedburner feed is still working as long as I can still post, apparently.

Eponym's main page has almost nothing on it.  Bummer.  I wonder if they're going belly-up.

I was never a big comic book reader when I was a kid, mostly because there just wasn't any place to buy comic books.  But I found this article interesting and the conclusion kind of fascinating.

Elf with a Gun was created by Steve Gerber, who is also known for creating Howard the Duck and other oddball comics.

The armed elf would simply show up in various of his comic books, kill someone, and that was it.  No explanation, nothing ever brought to a conclusion.  These violent elvish interludes were not even a part of the stories in which they appeared.

But later in interviews, Gerber explained it.

[Gerber revealed] that the Elf was nothing more than a backhanded metaphor for the chaotic and inexplicable nature of everyday existence, the "beast in the jungle" that you can spend a lifetime planning for but which still comes as a surprise or maybe never comes at all.

Via meine kleine fabrik.  More here.

The Republican YouTube Debate will be hosted by CNN in November.

That gives us a lot of time to mobilize.

Go to CNN's website contact form and request that they play Tom Gresham's and Clint Smith's question for Republican candidates.  The YouTube url is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FI4LwjbEyg.

Via The War on Guns.

I'm going to try and bring back my regular weekly posts:  the vintage ads and a selected pipe smoker on Saturdays.  So here's the return of the Wednesday vintage gun ad.  Ammo this time.


I think Junior is trying to figure out a way to talk dear old Dad into letting him try out that scoped semi-auto.  And Rover is about to go for a sandwich.

An article by Robert Knight in  The Washington Times:

Another tactic that the media are using in their assault on gun ownership is making selective, misleading comparisons to other nations. NBC anchor Brian Williams noted on April 17, the day after the Tech massacre, that Great Britain "outlawed handguns, and anyone caught with one faces a minimum prison sentence of five years. They are so opposed to guns here that not even police officers on routine patrol carry them. Now gun violence is rare."

Mr. Williams ignored the rise in knife violence and other crime amid Britain's long history of strict gun laws and unarmed "bobbies." He also declined to mention countries like Switzerland, where male citizens are required to be armed with assault rifles and ready for militia duty, but where there is little gun violence. Or South Africa, which has some of the most stringent gun laws but has a rate of gun homicides of 74.57 per 100,000 population, contrasted with New Zealand, with weak gun laws and only a 0.18 rate of gun homicides per 100,000 people.

Mr. Knight rips the MSM a new one (as if they didn't have enough already).

Via Oscar Poppa.

Thanks to Micah Nelson.  Via Bill St. Clair.

Buy a gun or ammo today!

UPDATE:  I ordered two boxes each of #000 buckshot in .410 and 20 gauge from Cheaper Than Dirt.  I needed an excuse to get back on their mailing list, anyway.  For more reports on ammo purchases, see August 28 Ammo Buy at The War On Guns.

UPDATE 2:  From JPFO.

Today in 25 cities, shameless self-promoter Jesse Jackson is staging a gun-store protest. Jackson said the nationwide rallies would represent a grassroots effort to press state and federal legislators into passing “common sense” legislation to stem the flow of handguns and military-style automatic weapons.

Apparently Jackson is unfamiliar with the old saying, "Those who do not remember the past are doomed to repeat it."

Since 1792, "gun control" laws were designed to keep black people disarmed and helpless. Black persons, whether slave or free, had to have a license or a judge’s permission before they could carry a firearm in Florida and Delaware. For black people, guns were banned entirely in several states. Florida laws empowered white "citizen patrols" to invade and search blacks’ homes for guns or other weapons. None of these policies applied, of course, to white people.

This is the vision Jessie Jackson has for the future? This is the government he trusts to protect him?

In response to his short-sighted and indeed, suicidal, belief that "only the government should have firearms," we offer our latest "Repudiate and Humiliate" handbill below [click to see the image --ed.]: www.jpfo.org/handbill-jackson.jpg

In closing, we would like to point out another quote to Rev. Jackson: "It is criminal to teach a man not to defend himself when he is the constant victim of brutal attacks." - Malcolm X