One of the ways that you can tell, sure fire, that Libertarians and Liberals are close cousins is both of their strong tendencies to always pause mid march, turn 90 degrees and leap on their neighbors face like a rabid raccoon. Lockstep unity is a conservative deal.
It's not much in terms of gameplay (arguements have been made that it's more like a semi-viewer-controlled movie) but the music alone is worth the price of admission.
I think his point is that willpower is not a skill; it's a resource which is to say it can and is depleted. So if you're a poor kid and you have poor nutrition and a poor home environment, your willpower resources will be depleted more before you get to school than, say, a middle class kid and thus you'll have less willpower available to study, focus on homework etc. Thus your odds of becoming undereducated and underemployed are heightened and thus poverty self perpetuates.
Last I checked the phenomena of depressions, recessions, double digit inflation, currency devaluation, and massive debt are not the products of the last 50 years of governance.
Well if Obama's term concludes with the left putting the idea of intervention to prevent inequality on the back burner that'd certainly strike me as a productive and helpful change. Of all the windmills to tilt at inequality strikes me as an especially unproductive one.
Depends on what kind of deficit spending you're talking about. If it's infrastructure then yes it takes time. Unemployment, food stamps and poverty assistance on the other hand dessiminate quickly and are quite a big bang for your buck vis a vis the economy.
Alas Jame I've never been north of Duluth so I'm unfamiliar with the BW and the entire BW excursion experience. What's an excursion like? You boat along, sing songs, fish drink and then camp at night?
Well I like his posts but I have a huge bias when it comes to the noble craft of sail powered vessles. Also he's on the right body of water *Atlantic Fistbumps with David*.
I dunno, I watched the video and I don't think it fits. The Mon Tiki will be mainly sail powered so it will have a boom for instance; you'd only just get into your rapping and then they'd tack and T-pain would get knocked into the water. With all that bling it'd be straight to the bottom with him. The humanity.
On “It’s The Base, Stupid”
One of the ways that you can tell, sure fire, that Libertarians and Liberals are close cousins is both of their strong tendencies to always pause mid march, turn 90 degrees and leap on their neighbors face like a rabid raccoon. Lockstep unity is a conservative deal.
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I actually tend to agree that an Iranian war is the big (somewhat black) Swan of this election.
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I don't think things are bad enough for Romney that his supporters need resort to invoking the silent majority yet.
On “Intellectual Art, Popular Media, and Getting Away from Aesthetic Subjectivity”
Ah yes I see the distinction there: raw clay isn't art; canvass isn't art; unworked marble isn't art.
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I've seen things in Minecraft I wouldn't mind calling art. Certainly more artistic than I've seen in modern art displays.
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It's not much in terms of gameplay (arguements have been made that it's more like a semi-viewer-controlled movie) but the music alone is worth the price of admission.
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God(ess) I loved Majesty so much! And now it won't run on my computer because it's too old! Despair!!!
Now that I think about it Majesty is probably sortof the ur-libertarian sort of game.
On “Barack Obama And The Supertanker Of State”
I think his point is that willpower is not a skill; it's a resource which is to say it can and is depleted. So if you're a poor kid and you have poor nutrition and a poor home environment, your willpower resources will be depleted more before you get to school than, say, a middle class kid and thus you'll have less willpower available to study, focus on homework etc. Thus your odds of becoming undereducated and underemployed are heightened and thus poverty self perpetuates.
On “Intellectual Art, Popular Media, and Getting Away from Aesthetic Subjectivity”
Have you seen Dear Esther yet Plinko?
On “Barack Obama And The Supertanker Of State”
Last I checked the phenomena of depressions, recessions, double digit inflation, currency devaluation, and massive debt are not the products of the last 50 years of governance.
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From your lips to God(ess?)'s ear Blaise.
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I suppose the question is whether his ship will break up at sea before the electorate gets sick of the storms and force calmer weather.
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Well if Obama's term concludes with the left putting the idea of intervention to prevent inequality on the back burner that'd certainly strike me as a productive and helpful change. Of all the windmills to tilt at inequality strikes me as an especially unproductive one.
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I'll let you know well before then.
On “Troubleshooting Inequality”
Depends on what kind of deficit spending you're talking about. If it's infrastructure then yes it takes time. Unemployment, food stamps and poverty assistance on the other hand dessiminate quickly and are quite a big bang for your buck vis a vis the economy.
On “What’s Love Got to Do With It? (Unsolicited Advice from a Rich Buddha)”
I'm interested for the sake of seeing the boundry waters so I'll pitch it to the husband. I'll keep you appraised.
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Alas Jame I've never been north of Duluth so I'm unfamiliar with the BW and the entire BW excursion experience. What's an excursion like? You boat along, sing songs, fish drink and then camp at night?
On “At James B Franks’ Request, a MON TIKI Update!”
Much appreciated. Thank you good sir.
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Forgive me, my Tod, but I humbly submit that yours is a mightily uncharitable summation of the comment thread on this post.
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Ah okay, thanks for clarifying.
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When it comes to Freddie it's always safe to assume he felt some genuine umbrage and then ran way too far with it.
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Funny, I wasn't aware that David was a libertarian.
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Well I like his posts but I have a huge bias when it comes to the noble craft of sail powered vessles. Also he's on the right body of water *Atlantic Fistbumps with David*.
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I dunno, I watched the video and I don't think it fits. The Mon Tiki will be mainly sail powered so it will have a boom for instance; you'd only just get into your rapping and then they'd tack and T-pain would get knocked into the water. With all that bling it'd be straight to the bottom with him. The humanity.
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Owtch! Well that's Freddie but there were a lot of elbows flying in that thread. The League ain't beanbag, it's just civil (mostly).
And speaking of civil thank you Nob, you're a peach and I tip my hat to you.
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