My regular readers are aware that I am deeply irritated by what I see as a sort...
Nob Akimoto
Nob Akimoto is a policy analyst and part-time dungeon master. When not talking endlessly about matters of public policy, he is a dungeon master on the NWN World of Avlis
As promised here are two cases from Avlis of magic equipped societies. I will begin with a...
…or why Major League Baseball and its business model are vastly preferable to the NBA and NFL....
So hot on the heels of Jason’s thought provoking piece, the Washington Post has an interesting profile...
…and decided that in fact he agreed with the President. So my post outlining a case for...
Over at Blinded Trials the esteemed Dr. Saunders has a post up about how W. Mitt Romney, much like...
Some tidbits from the past week or so. The Bank of Japan has declared it’s going to...
Because I’m feeling a bit churlish this morning, I’m inclined to go into nitpick mode. First, I’m...
I keep getting ads written in Chinese….
Age of Revolution, Age of Capital and Age of Empire are three of the greatest books ever written about...
Whenever I seem to take a break from the mendacity of scholars blogging, I find that some...
Author’s Note: This post is a follow-up to my original post on the political economy of magic....
Reading through Taylor Martin’s excellent blog pointed me in the direction of a Dan Nexon post at...
Gaming may be mainstream, but it is evidently weird enough that Maine Republicans are attacking Colleen Lachowicz...
‘What is Catalan?’ ‘Why, the language of Catalonia – of the islands, of the whole of the...
As my isolation from the chattering classes continues, I’m inclined to go into hypotheticals and counter-factuals. One...
So I’m avoiding political blogging and really politics for the next few days for the sake of...
John J. Mearsheimer, realist international relations scholar of Israel Lobby infamy, describes the liberal counterpart of neoconservatives as...
News connected to Pakistan is a bit like reading a George RR Martin novel. It’s grim. It’s...
The release of the recent Life Under Drones report has the League and the blogosphere (See also: Sully’s roundup)...
