Year: 2009

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the ethical sale of crystal meth

Erik Kain January 21, 2009

While I’m largely of the same mind as Freddie on the subject of drug legalization, which may...

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Civilization is a responsibility.

Freddie January 21, 2009

Reflecting on Israel, ED Kain writes Note when Foukara mentions that the only country Al-Jazeera has never...

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Multipolarity and Middle East

Chris Dierkes January 21, 2009

Scott’s intriguing counterintuitive post got me thinking. He thinks Obama should hold off on diving into a...

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The Filter of War

Erik Kain January 21, 2009

Freddie writes: While I continue to believe that our national conversation is far from an equitable or...

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re:ratiocination: mexican drug insurgency edition

Freddie January 20, 2009

C. Augustin Dierkes post on the Mexican drug war to me highlighted one of the many downsides...

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ratiocination: mexican drug insurgency edition

Chris Dierkes January 20, 2009

My namesake, the great detective C. Auguste Dupin, who was himself an extraordinary gentlemen (I a member...

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our changing media and the future for Israel

Freddie January 20, 2009

Although I richly deserve a reputation as something of a polemicist, I’d like to think that I...

David TC in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025Um, no. Literally none of what other people do is relevant to if a specific person committed a crime…
Dark Matter in reply to Dark Matter on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025This situation reminds me of the whole "U leaders don't deal with sex offenders" problem. The compli…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointOh I agree; I noted as such in my original comment. But I can't help but notice that all the stories…
Dark Matter in reply to Michael Cain on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Military spending is roughly half of that $1.6T discretionary spending I think Musk didn't review th…
Michael Cain in reply to Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”Do those numbers put DOD and military spending done by other parts of the government in discretionar…
Michael Cain in reply to North on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointTexas, and to a somewhat lesser extent Florida, build because they can sprawl. Where are the desirab…
Dark Matter on From the NY Times: DOGE Savings “85 percent less than its objective”All federal discretionary spending combined is $1.6T. This includes what most of us view as primary…
North in reply to Michael Cain on From Freddie de Boer: Abundance, Up To A PointThat is a fair critique to a very broad blanket statement but Florida and Texas are, iirc, the large…
Dark Matter in reply to Jaybird on Open Mic for the Week of 4/7/2025If it were still scientifically accurate, then maybe it would be. Or maybe we've become more accepti…
Jaybird in reply to KenB on Saturday Morning Gaming: Hollow KnightI am *EXCEPTIONALLY* irritated. I watched a youtube that said "fight them like *THIS*" and I went an…