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Came across this interesting story about the US Military. It's long but worth it for those of you interested in that kind of thing- http://www.theatlantic.com/features/archive/2014/12/the-tragedy-of-the-american-military/383516/ There has been a lot of discussion about the need for military...

Reading ahead for another semester- all the reading I do these days is academic. BUT- for those interested in the environment and want to think about a post-apocalyptic world. Try JR McNeil, Something New Under the Sun...

Dear Community, sad tidings this Christmas as reports indicate that Santa Claus was, indeed, shot down by Russia in yet another move of Russia aggression and increased international tensions. So if you don't get your Christmas presents this year, or your children are denied their special little...

Dying pastime and I do stop by and say hello from time to time too....

Hey Folks, stopping in briefly to say hi. Old time poster and once-upon-a-time administrator.

Hey Folks, long-timer visitor who has been gone awhile. I am thinking about doing fiction again, and even have been thinking about a story that is somewhat related to Fallout or the Morrow Project. Most of the writing I am doing is academic. Fiction writing is probably more about revision at...

When you go from an argument about the logic of an idea and turn it into a personal attack, you engage in ad hominem fallacy http://skepdic.com/adhominem.html . While such attacks might be justified under some circumstances, my position thus far has been on the discussion above and I don't...

Snapslav- Buchanan is a reasonable politician? Really? The guy has been squarely hardline conservative for a very long time. That said, comparing Putin as worse than Stalin is kind of stupid rhetoric meant to heat up an audience. It is a matter of comparing two autocrats with blood on their...

Yep, same airline. Bad year for Malaysian Air. Lots of folks thought it was terrorists. I am guessing that the crew and everyone died pretty quick and the plane went on autopilot and crashed. That's happened before. But then it might be another plane was shot down, this time over Mali...

Political arguments aside, it is a tragic loss, especially for the Dutch. I know we have a lot of people who post from the Netherlands here, and I hope no one has suffered a personal loss. Those who have lost have my sympathies.

I hear ya. I mean, thousands of years of human history in which women are treated as an inferior sex.... that data just HAS to be faked. Really, anyone with THAT much evidence of repression has got to be making that much shit up..... I mean.. so what if women are pressed in much of the...

Do you really care for any of the of Baretheons? Or the Lannisters besides Tryion? Tywin is wonderful to watch though. I know he's doomed, but still, he's a lot of fun. The Starks are getting a bit boring too, except Arya. I like Bronn, but Tyrion has got to realize that his strongest...

a character in a story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a1sf2CzEq0w An old favorite. Dated from the 1980s, but the Cold War images, the fantasy of a dieing guy, and chicks in leather... cool.

But don't you think Season 1 of Game of Thrones was better than Season 2? I think the best parts of Season 2 were when Tywin and Arya were interacting. They were both great. Tyrion carried much of the rest of the season. The Jon Snow stuff was just dragged on and I am looking forward to...

I started to miss having them show up when I stopped being vilified by the Legion.

I've been playing on my first run through- and I still haven't finished it. Don't tell me how it ends.

Red Dawn 2 was made with the North Koreans as bad guys because we didn't want to hurt the feelings of the Chinese. Didn't see Home Front? North Korea invades the US? I think alien invasion is more believable.

So what are you watching and what are you looking forward too? What do you think about some of what's on? To get this started- I am looking forward to the Walking Dead, and while I generally like the TV show more than the comic (graphic novel my ass) I think last season got a bit slow at...

Good point. But note- asking Jebus to not inflate his ego is like asking a horny teenager not to masturbate- unlikely to happen and more likely to result in a sticky mess. (just teasing Jebs).