El Borak

El Borak is an historian by training, an IT Director by vocation, and a writer when the mood strikes him. He lives in rural Kansas with his wife of thirty years, where he works to fix the little things.

July 12, 2018

Gardening

Bunch of Little Rotters

Over the years my tomato patch has produced respectable results. But one of the problems I consistently encountered was called Blossom End Rot. It happened first some ten years ago and grew

February 19, 2018

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Everyone, it seems, has a magic bullet that’s going to end school shootings. It’s part of our culture. The left wants one simple law passed and the right another repealed. Everyone on Twitter is a policy expert, Facebook is filled

February 26, 2018

Undercover Gardening: Mulching with Shredded Paper

September 21, 2019

A Spiritually Dark Future

Family

Where to Live IX – Catastrophic Threats

July 30, 2018

With a cryptic swerve worthy of #Qanon, Russian academic Andrei Fursov turned from the troubles in Ukraine to the super volcano bubbling beneath the wilds of Wyoming: Of course, there is this

Family

Where to Live VIII – Nuclear Targets

July 28, 2018

In the eighth installment of Where to Live, we’re going to take a look at one threat that is very, very unlikely and yet would be catastrophic if it came to fruition:

Family

Where to Live VII – Railroads

July 26, 2018

What do an ex-hippy curmudgeon like James Howard Kunstler and an ultra-conservative* military consultant like William S. Lind have in common? For different reasons**, each is convinced that rail transportation will and

Family

Where to Live VI – Earthquakes

July 25, 2018

The Economic Collapse Blog notes a rumble under the chair, and it ain’t baked beans: Why are fault lines and volcanoes all over North and South America suddenly waking up? Are we

Family

Where to Live V – Tornadoes

July 24, 2018

As I am sitting under a tornado watch at present,* it seemed a good time to examine another threat that the prepper should consider when selecting a location to live: tornadoes. In

Family

Where to Live IV – Nuclear Plants

July 23, 2018

In Part IV of the Where to Live series, we’re going to take a brief look at one often-overlooked threat to consider when choosing a home or a bugout location: nuclear power

Enemies·Family

Where to Live III – Demographics

July 21, 2018

This is a post no one really wants to write, a subject few Americans truly wants to address. Even Alex Jones, in his documentary film Strategic Relocation, blames potential collapse-driven ethnic strife on

Family

Where to Live II – Population Density

July 19, 2018

In Where to Live Part I we took a look at a green and red map that was almost the inverse of this one – that of annual rainfall. In this map, which shows

Family·Gardening

Where to Live I – Rainfall

July 18, 2018

After watching a (now removed) Youtube vid that concluded that the best place in the whole world for all of us to live is in the Florida Panhandle,* I got to thinking

Philosophy·Technology

Haterizing Degrowth(tm): A Rant

July 9, 2018

<rant> One cannot long tarry long amongst preppers without discovering that they come in three distinct types. There’s the anti-government preppers to whom everything is a conspiracy of hyper-competent elites dedicated to

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El Borak

Bunch of Little Rotters

What Did We Think Was Going To Happen?

Undercover Gardening: Mulching with Shredded Paper

A Spiritually Dark Future

Where to Live IX – Catastrophic Threats

Where to Live VIII – Nuclear Targets

Where to Live VII – Railroads

Where to Live VI – Earthquakes

Where to Live V – Tornadoes

Where to Live IV – Nuclear Plants

Where to Live III – Demographics

Where to Live II – Population Density

Where to Live I – Rainfall

Haterizing Degrowth(tm): A Rant

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