Ken Padgett

As a freelance writer with quite a few web sites, I often receive emails from people asking questions about something I've written. The following email regarding my Kachina.us web site is insane, and what's even more astonishing is that this person is able to hold down a full-time job as an executive with a major corporation. They used their company email account to contact me, so this is probably not a joke or a troll. For context, this is what a Hopi Scorpion Kachina "Puchkofmoktaka" looks like. From: [REDACTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2018 8:11 AM To: [REDACTED] - Protected from spam bots and scrapers Subject: Re: Scorpion Kachina Ken, I found you via Google searches about Kachinas. Have you ever heard or seen a completely black scorpion Kachina? I was journeying and in the stars came across a group of black scorpion Kachinas – not the dolls, but the beings themselves. They stood on two legs though not human legs. The lar...

The media and gun control advocates have worked themselves up into a frenzy over 3D printed plastic guns and most of the arguments they make are deeply flawed. 1. This allows people to make their own guns Making guns for personal use is already legal . A license is not required. This is nothing new. Zip guns -- improvised 'homemade' firearms have a very long history with hobbyists as well as gangs and other criminals, and are constructed with readily available, very inexpensive materials .   2. This will make it easier and cheaper to acquire guns Nope. It’s much cheaper to simply buy a gun. You can't reliably print guns that won't blow up in your hand with an $800 printer.  And 3D printing isn't easy or fast. You can't print an entire gun in one pass and even if you could it would take a very long time. Instead, each part has to be printed separately and then assembled. Then, since it's all plastic, it won't last very long -- especially i ...

  While I was in the Army in the early 70s, I was stationed in a little picturesque town Southeast of Frankfurt, Germany called Büdingen that grew up in and around a castle built in the 1200s.    It was a great place to be stationed, but there wasn't a lot of action there, so we usually went to Frankfurt for that. But most evenings we hung out in the local gasthaus (bar), drinking beer, shooting pool and playing fooseball. One quiet night, I was hanging out with some friends in the gasthaus, when the door opened and much to my surprise a stream of girls started coming in. It turned out to be a group of 17 year old high school girls on a field trip. I couldn't believe my good luck! It wasn't long before I hooked up with a ...

  “Do something about your dad’s immigration practices, you feckless cunt” -- Samantha Bee Though the White House had nothing to say about Roseanne Barr's racist remarks about Valerie Jarrett, they didn't hesitate to demand that Samantha Bee should be fired. “The language used by Samantha Bee last night is vile and vicious. The collective silence by the left and its media allies is appalling. Her disgusting comments and show are not fit for broadcast, and executives at Time Warner and TBS must demonstrate that such explicit profanity about female members of this administration will not be condoned on its network.” -- White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders These statements are a government assault on free speech and the hypocrisy of Trump condemning anyone else for using the word "cunt" is truly breathtaking. "I remember you. You were that cunt from the airplane." -- Trump to Jessica Leeds, one of the first women to publicly ac...

Fans of Mystery Science Theater 3,000 and Rifftrax may think that they invented the genre, but it was Jay Curtis and Bruce Mueller who had the first TV show based on telling jokes abo ut bad movies while viewing them . In 1980, the two film editors at XETV Channel 6 created a TV show called Disasterpiece Theat re that was broadcast from Tijuana into San Diego.  T hey "riffed" on really bad movies long before Mystery Science Theater 3000 premiered in 1988.   Jay Curtis hosting Disasterpiece Theatre as Sal-U-Lloyd The show consisted of host segments and sketches with Sal-U-Lloyd (Curtis), The Other Guy (M ueller) , and a variety of special guests; including Whoopie Goldberg, Richard Simmons and Michael Medved. Jokes were delivered during the movies by text overlay and by re-dubbing the audio to include sound effects, comic voices, and jokes. Sal wore a black suit and white Capezio dance shoes and drove an Edsel. A variety of oddball characters we...