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Unified Theory of Tomorrow
Working title right now is Unified Theory of Tomorrow. That's shittily over-hyped sounding.
Looking at the world right now it's hard to find a foothold. I fell off the world a few times and it hurt each time, to varying degrees. And each time I look back up at the spinning thing and I understand why people say it is better to hole up and scream at ( Read more... ) -
Psychopath Considers His Attack Morally Justified
Putin Interview: Did Russia Interfere in the Election, Collect Info on Trump? -- "'Put your finger anywhere on a map of the world, and everywhere you will hear complaints that American officials are interfering in internal electoral processes,' he [President Vladimir Putin] said ( Read more... ) -
4 Dimensional Chess
Obama is faced with a political reality where anything he comes out in favor for, his opposition will oppose, because we are in a unique age where we don't really have a political opposition but actually a personal opposition. The Affordable Care Act is the most dramatic example; conservative think tank and the heart of the Republican party, The ( Read more... ) -
War... War Never Changes
Good news for everyone with stock in Lockheed Martin; we're going Full Kosovo on Assad's ass ( Read more... ) -
Revisiting Fundamental Dissagreements
Trying to have conversations with people in the comments section of YouTube is only half as hard as engaging in one on twitter, since there's twice the character allowance, but it's just as distractedly constricting and chronically useless. But, like so many people, it's hard to let slide every single thing you disagree with and eventually I ( Read more... ) -
The world without unions
I've been occasionally tweaking a story for a long time. It's set in a bleak future that looks at a glance like a libertarian dream of total economic freedom, but under the layers of consumerism and beyond the throngs of those enjoying the "freedom of economic failure," the naked reality is the total realization of neo-conservative goals; total ( Read more... ) -
more election thoughts
Anyone that's been watching Fox or listening to AM talk radio as their primary news source for the last 4 years is gearing up for the biggest "anyone but him" campaign ever. They're going to call that Tuesday in November the one day between recovery and the apocalypse. Even a lot of otherwise apolitical people have a vague notion that everything ( Read more... ) -
Gingrich Soldiers On
Gingrich has declared war on Fox News, saying that he has been forced to rely on fair coverage from CNN, but that Fox News is "on Romney's side." So of course it's over for Gingrich. Even his top funder, casino billionaire Forgot Hisname, has been interviewed saying that he would love it if Gingrich won but that it's now obviously just not going to ( Read more... ) -
Sundy Morning Not-Church
Theism is crazy. I give up, I gotta say it. I just spent 4 hours reading through a comment thread http://reason.com/archives/2012/03/10/atheism-is-a-religion#commentformRead more... ) -
War with Iran: such an insanely bad idea that it won't happen
War with Iran is such a terrible idea for so many reasons that it simply won't happen. It makes for inflammatory campaign rhetoric used to excite the base, but intelligence and military leaders from every side considers war to be an impossible option ( Read more... )