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| Tuesday, July 7th, 2009 | | 8:40 pm |
I'm increasingly of the opinion that the greatest obstacle Korean kids face in learning English is their Korean mothers. Current Music: Rebel Meets Rebel - Nothin' to Lose | | Thursday, July 2nd, 2009 | | 10:54 pm |
I'm disheartened, but not surprised, to see so many on the right jump into tinfoil hat territory. | | Tuesday, June 30th, 2009 | | 12:08 am |
Something to start thinking about, conservatives...
http://www.jonathanrauch.com/jrauch_articles/conservatism-attack-of-the-zombie-party/"IT IS the summer of 2008. I am watching the telecast of the Republican convention with a sinking feeling. Here is Mitt Romney. The former governor of Massachusetts (repeat: Massachusetts), and current quarter-billionaire (that’s "billion," with a B), denounces "Eastern elites." Excuse me? Then he says we need change "from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington"–as if George McGovern, not George W. Bush, had been president for eight years.
Here is Rudy Giuliani. The former mayor of New York City (repeat: New York City) sneers that Democrats are "cosmopolitan." He paints the election as "we, the people" against "the media" and "Hollywood celebrities." As if it were Barack Obama who had spent most of his life and career in New York and whose second wife (second of three, by the way) was a television personality and star of The Vagina Monologues.
The crowd eats it up. Me, I am a little stunned. Even a convention audience, I would have thought, could not be manipulated so obviously, so cheaply. Ah, but now Sarah Palin, the vice presidential nominee, takes her turn. Surely, I tell myself, the bad-cop, snarling Giuliani has set the stage for an optimistic, big-tent, Reaganesque "City on a Hill" speech.
But no: We get the pit bull with lipstick.
Palin is an unknown quantity, a neophyte in national politics. Yet Republicans who once might have wondered where a potential president stands on major issues now find it more than enough to know that she is a pro-life hockey mom who annoys liberals and can field dress a moose. It becomes evident, as they adulate her, that they regard her provinciality as being, in and of itself, a qualification for the presidency. As I watch, it dawns on me that the American conservative movement is not just down on its luck, it is zombiefied. " | | Friday, June 26th, 2009 | | 1:37 am |
Just for the record
I think President Obama has steered quite well during this Iranian business. | | Wednesday, June 24th, 2009 | | 10:46 pm |
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Let there be feasts, libations, and great, golden copulations. | | Monday, June 22nd, 2009 | | 2:35 pm |
Live Journal is nothing without me. | | Saturday, June 13th, 2009 | | 5:58 pm |
| | Saturday, June 6th, 2009 | | 12:43 am |
Hmm...
Everything I like is either illegal, immoral, or unhealthy... | | Thursday, June 4th, 2009 | | 12:20 am |
Attn. military history buffs:
Because wikipedia is the first and clearest link that comes up these days for this sort of thing, and because of a fucking ridiculous censoring program pon public computers here that blocks wikipedia, I need some help. I'm trying to find out which infantry divisions of Patton's 3rd Army entered Czechoslovakia in 1945. Can anyone send that to me? | | Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009 | | 11:16 pm |
| | Monday, June 1st, 2009 | | 12:41 pm |
The question you have to ask is
what do Kim Jeong-il and the ruling class in the DPRK benefit from peace and regular relations with the world, and normalcy in general? Current Music: Deftones - Beware (the water) | | Tuesday, May 26th, 2009 | | 9:20 pm |
| | Thursday, May 7th, 2009 | | 4:57 pm |
I will spend 1,000 years on my deathbed debating whether or not it's time to stop breathing... | | Monday, April 27th, 2009 | | 2:28 pm |
Game trailer: Stalin vs. Martians
Ok, then... "He crushed the Nazis, ruled the Soviet Union with a fist of iron, and gave birth to the Cold War -- but how will he fare against the Martians? A new PC game from a motley band of Russian developers offers you the chance to find out.
Stalin Vs. The Martians
Stalin vs. Martians opens in 1942, as a band of Martians land somewhere in Siberia and attack Mother Russia. It's up to the player to command the Soviet forces, and Stalin, who for some reason is hundreds of feet tall, heads up the defenses in person. Why? Who knows? Probably the same reason the Martians look like brightly-colored Nintendo characters.
As the game's lead designer and producer Alexander Shcherbakov told us: "It is so insanely beautiful randomness, that we just couldn't waste the opportunity to actually make this kind of game, not just laugh at the ridiculous, possibly the most ridiculous PC game concept ever we unintentionally made up."
We're not entirely sure what he means, but his game is already a big hit on YouTube. Since appearing last month, the game's trailer -- which heavily features Stalin dancing to techno music -- has accumulated well over 100,00 views. In response, the game's executive producer Tom Soderlund said: "One contributing factor to the success could be the high level of historical accuracy, that is completely missing from the game."
You'll be able to check out the "insanely beautiful randomness" when Stalin vs. Martians releases later this month."http://videogames.yahoo.com/events/plugged-in/stalin-takes-on-martians-in-quirky-new-game/1307087 | | Thursday, April 16th, 2009 | | 10:38 pm |
Arrggghh, maties...
Somali shenanigans: my two cents. First, I'll say that the whole problem is largely overblown by recent media attention. The number of ships and crews affected, and even money paid in ransom and lost through undelivered cargo is minuscule in comparison to the global shipping industry, and that should really go without saying. Piracy has been going on forever, and I'm not aware of any case in which it's ever been more than varying degrees of background noise in the bigger picture. But hell, it's interesting, anyway. That being said, my humble hunch is that the problem can be largely diminished by instituting some sort of convoy system around Somali waters. For instance, have an assembly/dispersal point somewhere in the Gulf of Suez where a dozen or so ships at a time can be escorted by coalition warships through the Gulf of Aden and around Somali waters. As well, there would be at least two other assembly/dispersal points in the Indian Ocean for ships bound for the Suez canal from south of Aden along the African coast, and from east of Aden from the Persian Gulf, East Asia, etc. I suspect that if the volume of traffic is heavy enough, merchantmen would be delayed from their destinations by only a few days at most. Coalition warships would be able to focus their efforts on directly protecting merchantmen, rather than patrolling over a millions square miles of ocean waiting for a distress call that could come from over a thousand miles away. Shipping companies would avoid the potentially messy legal, insurance and crew training/readiness problems involved with arming their vessels. Governments would avoid having to deal directly with the problem on the ground in Somalia. Am I missing something here? Please give some input. | | Sunday, April 12th, 2009 | | 2:44 pm |
| | Tuesday, April 7th, 2009 | | 12:28 pm |
| | Friday, April 3rd, 2009 | | 11:44 pm |
| | Tuesday, March 31st, 2009 | | 2:31 pm |
I just don't have the stomach for this job anymore... | | Saturday, March 21st, 2009 | | 7:24 pm |
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