Daily Archive: October 25, 2012

/// October 25, 2012

Sketching Out States in Fantasy: Two Cases from Avlis

As promised here are two cases from Avlis of magic equipped societies. I will begin with a (moderately) short description of each state, then compare the place of magic and its political economy. This...

Nob Akimoto

/// October 25, 2012

Baseball…reminds us of all that once was good and that could be again

…or why Major League Baseball and its business model are vastly preferable to the NBA and NFL. It’s fall. And that means it’s the best time of year to be a sports fan. Baseball...

Tod Kelly

/// October 25, 2012

Because the last thing we want is for Juan Peron to beat both Romney and Obama

Great news for everyone worried about voter fraud! The Europeans are here to save us! It appears that the UN-affiliated watchdog Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) will be sending election monitors...

Nob Akimoto

/// October 25, 2012

Brennan’s World: Drones and Future Administrations

So hot on the heels of Jason’s thought provoking piece, the Washington Post has an interesting profile of the role played by John Brennan in the Obama Administration’s counter-terrorism policy. Bobby Chesney has an...

Tod Kelly

/// October 25, 2012

Win the NBA Trivia Challenge and Rule My Gravatar!

Believe it or not, we’re now less than week away from the start of the new NBA season. After last year’s lockout debacle, it’s especially comforting to know I’ll have my League Pass to help...

Elias Isquith

/// October 25, 2012

Jacobin-ing

Have you seen any ads for the History Channel’s new miniseries, The Men Who Built America?

Kazzy

/// October 25, 2012

Touche

“Well, Ms. Coulter, you, and society, need to learn that being compared to people like me should be considered a badge of honor.” I wish I could say more than, “Bravo!” But I can’t....

Kyle Cupp

/// October 25, 2012

Being in Uncertainty

Claire Creffield, an atheist who finds that, sometimes, “invoking the concept of God seems a very compelling way indeed of doing justice to the strangeness, the beauty and the peril of our lives,” asks...