Shawn Gude gets a sub-blog
Shawn’s first post at “The Safe Depository” is live. He’s been posting occasionally to the front page, and now I’ve finally set him up with his own sub-digs as well. His intro post is here.
Author: Erik Kain
Culture is the villain
I’ve had this sort of nebulous notion that culture itself is a problem. Not any particular culture, mind you, but rather the entire concept of culture. The exclusivity of the group over the individual....
Monty Python and the Holy Grail: The Game
Over at Forbes I have a post detailing why I think somebody needs to make a Monty Python and the Holy Grail MMORPG. I list out monsters, character classes, etc. So if you have...
The Real Mitt Romney, Inside the Actor’s Studio
James Lipton offers some good, though likely impossible, advice to Mitt Romney (via The Dish.) Politics is performance. This has never been more true than now.
Playing music with children
This pretty much sums up every time I try to play guitar while my children are around. My daughter is almost five and my son almost two, and their musical tastes tend to be...
Romney the prankster, Obama the politician
You knew it would get ugly, and now it has. Romney’s character is being called into question as his past as a youthful prankster and loud-mouthed homophobe is coming to light. Recalling an incident...
‘The First Law’ Trilogy Is Fantasy At Its Finest
I’ve finished Joe Abercrombie’s First Law trilogy: The Blade Itself, Before They Are Hanged, and Last Argument of Kings. And may I just say that this is some truly wonderful fantasy? Because it is truly wonderful fantasy, easily some of the...
Under the banner of Romney
At some point, the question of Mitt Romney’s faith will come up and loom much larger than any of his business past. It will come up not just in circles of evangelical conservatives, but...
Beyond Derbyshire
In Oklahoma, this story has been unfolding for the past few days: TULSA, Okla. (AP) — Two men were arrested Sunday in a shooting rampage that left three people dead and terrorized Tulsa’s black...
Like any truly great politician, the real Mitt Romney doesn’t exist
“Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It’s almost like an Etch A Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and restart all of over again.”...
Five Leadership Lessons of James T. Kirk: The Movie (Or, How Alex Knapp Plans To Conquer The Universe)
If you missed Alex Knapp’s article on the five leadership lessons of James T. Kirk you really should read it. Or, if you prefer, you can watch Alex’s video version which he recorded at...
Scenes from an Arizona snowfall
One reason I really do love this town: we just had thirty inches of snow dumped on us, and today it’s sunny and bright and the snow is melting. You can go outside in...
Everyone in Afghanistan suffers PTSD
I’m pretty sure that long before American troops set foot in the mountains of Afghanistan, that the people of that country already suffered from post-traumatic-stress-disorder. Another ten years of war stacked on top of...
Arizona buried, again, beneath a tide of snow
I’m tired of snow. I know this is true because it’s hardly snowed this winter at all until now. I took the above picture about half-way through our current storm. It was about the...
Refresher Course On Formatting Posts And Post Images
I know everyone is sick of meta, but… It’s very important that any image included at the top of your post is properly formatted. Otherwise it won’t show up properly as a thumbnail down below,...
Shooting spree illustrates why it’s time to end the war in Afghanistan
The latest tragedy in Afghanistan is still unfolding. An American soldier went on a shooting spree, killing sixteen civilians and wounding numerous others: “Stalking from home to home, a United States Army sergeant methodically...
Mass Effect 3, John Carter, and More….
In case you’re interested in my other blog I have some kind of interesting stuff up over there right now… I have a somewhat more in-depth look at the day-one DLC included with BioWare’s Mass...
A vendetta against BioWare?
So I have a post up at Forbes on the bizarre reaction to BioWare’s latest game, Mass Effect 3, on Metacritic. Despite glowing reviews, the user score has been hovering around 2.5. At first...
Country Music and the Culture War
This was brought up in an earlier thread, but Will Wilkinson’s post on country music is worth a closer look. Wilkinson listens to country music in his car – sometimes I do, too. Sometimes...
Post formatting and images
Below are some instructions for bloggers at this site on how to add images to posts to make them work properly as thumbnails and in the new frontpage design. It’s pretty easy. It’s also...
