Civilization: Endgame
I’m a huge fan of the Civilization series of computer games (also the board game upon which they’re totally not based, right, Sid?) This might be the greatest CivII-related thing I’ve ever seen.
Author: Patrick
On the Shadow Empire
As my old friend Colombo used to say, “There’s just one thing I don’t understand”. Except when he said that, you knew he was about to gotcha somebody. There is one thing that I...
Friday Jukebox
I haven’t yet done one of these, so here’s an inaugural. Love and Rockets formed in 1985 from the ashes of Bauhaus, one of the first post-Beatles “Aw, man, they broke up?” bands in...
Comment Rescue: The Right Answer?
On the well-traveled thread on the front page that I’m not really following because I just spent a chunk of my day writing on the sub-blog, Ryan says: Here. Let’s put it this way....
A Note About Restraint
On the redoubtable Mr. Thompson’s last post, there is a counter-point to be made. I shall now make this point, standing in for the law enforcement community. Firearm accuracy is notoriously bad in stress...
Sounds of the City
Right now as I start this post, out on the street, the same somebody who comes by once a week is creating the clink-clink noise of bottles being sorted out of the neighborhood recycle...
Over!
Cross-posted at Mindless Diversions. Since Jaybird is busy bailing out the basement, I thought I’d throw together something just to provide our breathless readership with something to read on Monday, other than a post...
248 Small Government Party Members Vote “Yea” on CISPA
(Edited to add) Erik and I crossed the streams. From there: One important thing to glean from this, especially when held up in contrast with the defeat of SOPA and PIPA, two bills aimed...
Back to the Salt Mines
The Infamous Brad distills the independent report of the UC Davis pepper-spray affair.
Intellectual Property: Abstract vs. Natural Right, Part V: The Conclusioning
I know. People have been asking themselves for weeks, “So, what were all these posts about, anyway? What’s your conclusion, Pat?” Well… two people, maybe? Okay, here’s my distillation of them, for those two...
The Internet is Awesome
Nine-year old Caine Monroy spent his summer vacation building a cardboard arcade inside of his father’s used auto parts store. And then the Internet got involved. I don’t know how I missed this story...
More Facebook
Tom wrote a post a while back about employers demanding that employees turn over their Facebook passwords. My opinion was that this is a very bad idea, and Tod pointed out some salient reasons...
Who do you like in the second?
Presuming that Mitt is indeedy the nominee, which seems to be locked in at this point… … who’s the Veep pick? I will say it’s not going to be Santorum or Newt or Perry…...
Reasons to Have A Kindergartener in the Family, #1
Reported via the wife’s facebook update: Hannah says, apropos of nothing,”I can’t see that because I don’t have too many eyes. I don’t have an eye in my stomach because then I would be...
Sad Songs
they say, so… so much. This is the saddest “sad sack” story you will ever read if you’re a sports fan. Mets fans don’t have anything on this. Nobody has anything on this. CLIPPER...
The First of the Law
And the Padraig spoke, and he said unto the people, “For upon these days, men will come to you with fermented grain beverages that will be the color of the grass in the field....
Poll!
Just finished the Game Theory midterm (I did just fine). I have the rest of the day off. It’s 30 minutes on the road to get back to Chez C. In honor of Mr....
