So that we don't seem like over-amped activist yahoos, it has to be acknowledged that 'chink in the armor' is a common idiom that you do indeed hear all the time in sports, politics, etc. I use it myself from time to time. It's an excellent term to u...Read more
So that we don't seem like over-amped activist yahoos, it has to be acknowledged that 'chink in the armor' is a common idiom that you do indeed hear all the time in sports, politics, etc. I use it myself from time to time. It's an excellent term to u...Read more
I've got to admit I was a lot more affected by Steve Jobs's death last week than I expected. If you asked me a few months ago, I would've figured I'd be bummed out for an afternoon and then obsess about AAPL's stock price for the next few days. The only other public figure that actually saddened me tremendously when he died was author David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in August of 2008 at the age of 46, after battling depression for years. Both were figures that died in the prime of their careers, ...Read more
I've got to admit I was a lot more affected by Steve Jobs's death last week than I expected. If you asked me a few months ago, I would've figured I'd be bummed out for an afternoon and then obsess about AAPL's stock price for the next few days. The only other public figure that actually saddened me tremendously when he died was author David Foster Wallace, who committed suicide in August of 2008 at the age of 46, after battling depression for years. Both were figures that died in the prime of their careers, ...Read more
The 'coons will have to roll 20s.Hexes. I'm seeing them a lot these days in games and movies as effects for energy shields or invisibility cloaks, enveloping that awesome ship or sexy covert agent in a shimmering protective grid. At the advice of the folks in the garden shop, a protective hexagonal grid of chic...Read more
The 'coons will have to roll 20s.Hexes. I'm seeing them a lot these days in games and movies as effects for energy shields or invisibility cloaks, enveloping that awesome ship or sexy covert agent in a shimmering protective grid. At the advice of the folks in the garden shop, a protective hexagonal grid of chic...Read more
(Like a lot of topics, there are surely more scholarly viewpoints on economics, but because everyone's involved in it and affected by it, I think we're all entitled to a reasoned opinion.)
Whenever debates on increasing taxes on the wealthy and corporations come up, the conservatives generally go to the very tangible bottom-line arguments about wealth redistribution, with some class warfare accusations thrown in to give their arguments a dash of cultural incredulity. Liberals go heavy on the bleeding heart cultu...Read more