I made a donation to Ron Paul’s Money Bomb today to try and help him win some votes in South Carolina. If you’d like to do the same, click here.

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I drove 17½ hours Tuesday from Winnemucca, Nevada to Gold Beach, Oregon. Wednesday I had jet lag and slept mightily. Today I played 18 holes of golf and unwound completely.

The Self Reliance Expo was a fine success for us. We took 49 subscriptions and I had a chance to hang out with readers and advertisers.

Jeff Gleason, “the Berkey guy” who has been advertising Berkey water filters with us for years, had the booth opposite from us. I use the Berkey filter. Everyone should have one, even if only stored away for an emergency. This is an absolute must in any future survival scenario.

Tattler resusable canning lids was there too. My wife and daughter use these. This is another “no brainer” addition to a preparedness budget.

Humless was there also with their very useful “silent generator.” They’ve only been advertising on the website but we made a deal so they will soon be advertising in the print issue. Glenn Jakins and St. John (pronounced SIN-JIN in South Africa) Holloway of South Africa are two very cool representatives of that company. I’m buying one of these “generators” but will have to wait a few more weeks for delivery. This is a good complement for the magazine’s new motorhome. I got the solar panel charger with mine.

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Derek Ernst of UNLV almost got it done at the 2011 U.S. Amateur Public Links Championship, but lost in a playoff to Corbin Mills of Clemson. Ernst, 21, is from Clovis, California, while Mills, 21, is from Easley, South Carolina.

In the 2011 U.S. Women’s Amateur Public Links Championship, which was held concurrently at the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort in Oregon, Brianna Do, 21, of UCLA, defeated Marissa Dodd, 17, a high school graduate headed for Wake Forest. Do was born in Caliornia but represented her parents’ country of Vietnam, while Dodd is from Allen, Texas.

Here are a few photos:

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Any time you’re feeling down, just click on this video. It’s got to put a smile on your face..

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Aaron Zelman, founder of Jews for the Preservation of FIrearms Ownership, has died. He was 64. I knew Aaron only slightly, as he was a frequent exhibitor at the old Preparedness Shows. He was a good man and an important fighter for freedom. He knew his history well, and told all who would listen what it meant to be a Jew, unarmed, and a good citizen in World War II’s Nazi Germany. He spent his life trying to educate people that they should never give up their firearms, and that they should always be wary of politicians telling them that giving up firearms was for the good of society. He knew better.

JPFO was launched in 1989, the same year I began BHM. In 1990, Aaron published a riveting interview of a Holocaust survivor in the pages of American Survival Guide, most of whose membership was absorbed into the subscriber base of BHM after it ceased to publish a few years later. The interview gave JPFO the momentum it needed to begin to flourish under Aaron’s gifted leadership. BHM’s Claire Wolfe has been a frequent collaborator on book projects with Aaron.

The following photo, which I found online, is how I remember Aaron:

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Yahoo! I got my US Open tickets today for Pebble Beach, June 14-20, on the Monterey Peninsula south of  San Francisco. Trouble is, I ordered too many of them. I got 3 adult sets and six junior sets. (Each set includes eight days — four days of the Open, a day for a potential playoff, and three days of warm-up so you can watch the players practice and get autographs). What to do! I like problems like this.

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Late last night Lenie made a delicious Eggplant Parmesan with chicken as part of her “Lenie in the Kitchen” column for the upcoming issue, No. 121. It was so delicious that I was eating it at midnight.

But this morning, middle son, Robby, who is 16 and normally blessed with discriminating taste, passed on this marvelous dish in favor of a package of Rice a Roni.

“Are you kidding!” I pleaded. “This Parmesan dish is delicious!”

“This is good too, Dad!” he said matter-of-factly.

Egad! His generation will soon be in charge!

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