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Welp, here’s some light reading for the weekend.
“When you criminalize free trade, only…criminals engage in free trade. That’s why you see the thuggish behaviour you do. Legalize the trade, as some games and worlds have, and you have harnessed legitimate and normal human activity, and then can more easily identify and prosecute the criminals, i.e. those who use fraud, spamming.” Continue reading
My experience with the Texas Primary was not unlike Scott’s, only we were attempting to fit about 500 people into a 35-man classroom on a college campus. We ended up forming two lines, going down the hall each way, each supporting a different candidate. Somehow, I was drafted into actually playing traffic cop for these two lines. Fortunately, I had the foresight to put the Obama line down the long hall.
My coworker, who is from France, is completely baffled and befuddled by stories such as these, especially when you get to the part where Obama lost the primary but (probably) won the caucus in Texas. Continue reading
Texas is not used to mattering in the presidential race at all. The state going Republican in the general election is, these days, a foregone conclusion, and the primaries happen so late that by the time the race gets here, the nominees of both parties typically have things in the bag. I know that those living in important primary states (New Hampshire, Iowa) and battleground states (Ohio, Florida) get sick of political ads, but its still kind of novel here. Continue reading
WoW is advertising on the front page of the Daily Kos, shrill liberal blog extraordinaire.
Tragically, I don’t know enough right-wing blogs to see if the justice is even-handed, or if liberals are more likely to be locked in their mom’s basement, shouting ‘Leeeeroy’ at the top of their lungs.
The 60-minute documentary will chronicle Scott’s only NASCAR victory, at Jacksonville Speedway in 1963, and his positive impact on the bond, but they get distance in their communication.
How do you get a large, unrluy mob to stop following the celebrities you are assigned to protect? You start fires. At least you do in Argentina.
The government also assigned firefighters and a fire engine … to start fires: “Believe it or not, the fire truck is used to put out small fires that are set by the firefighters themselves (when ordered to by their superiors over the radio) to distract people from chasing after the Bush twins. The fires are usually set in trash barrels as the firefighters stand by with a small hose.”
We now return you to our usual game-oriented content. I just couldn’t let that one pass.
Who knew that when Bill O’Reilly would kickstart the annual ‘War on Christmas’, the first battle would be with… all the cool toys this Christmas!
Not content to leave the video game bashing to Democrats like Hillary and Joementum, Bill O’Reilly has decided to turn luddite, and open fire on gaming and technology, in the process demanding that all of you kids get off of his lawn.GamePolitics has the story, complete with money quotes:
Basically what you have is a large portion of the population, mostly younger people under the age of 45, who don’t deal with reality – ever. So they don’t know what day it is; they don’t know temperature it is; they don’t know what their neighbor looks like. They don’t know anything… because they are constantly diverted by a machine. Now what this does is it takes a person away from reality because they’ve created their own reality…
I’ve stopped posting about politics since the last election – quite simply, there are a lot of bloggers out there doing it a hell of a lot better than I ever could, even if I had the time. That being said, Tuesday is a big election here in the states, and I’d feel remiss if I didn’t urge my readers to actually get out and vote. It matters.
Who am I voting for? It’s more of what I’m voting against. I’m voting against ’staying the course’ when that course has no discernable evidence of success. I’m voting against a party that twisted limited evidence of WMDs to launch a preemptive attack in Iraq. I’m voting against the party that committed us to Iraq with insufficient troops, equipment or allies, and that actually slashed veteran benefits. I’m voting against a party that managed to make Iraq a more dangerous place than when a bloodthirsty lunatic was running it. Continue reading
I really just wanted to share this picture of Katherine Harris (remember her?) holding a possom by the tail. Really. It cracks my shit up.
It turns out that you can only teach science in science class! CNN has the down low.
“Intelligent design” cannot be mentioned in biology classes in a Pennsylvania public school district, a federal judge said Tuesday, ruling in one of the biggest courtroom clashes on evolution since the 1925 Scopes trial.
Dover Area School Board members violated the Constitution when they ordered that its biology curriculum must include the notion that life on Earth was produced by an unidentified intelligent cause, U.S. District Judge John E. Jones III said.
Several members repeatedly lied to cover their motives even while professing religious beliefs, he said.
Update: From the decision text.
Those who disagree with our holding will likely mark it as the product of an activist judge. If so, they will have erred as this is manifestly not an activist Court.Rather, this case came to us as the result of the activism of an ill-informed faction on a school board, aided by a national public interest law firm eager to find a constitutional test case on ID, who in combination drove the Board to adopt an imprudent and ultimately unconstitutional policy. The breathtaking inanity of the Board’s decision is evident when considered against the factual backdrop which
has now been fully revealed through this trial. The students, parents, and teachers of the Dover Area School District deserved better than to be dragged into this legal maelstrom, with its resulting utter waste of monetary and personal resources.
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