Source: The French military has seen a surge in applications after the Paris attacks Giggle if you want to, but France has the largest armed forces in Europe in terms of personnel.
I’ve never played Fallout. Or anything like that. I have a Wii U. I play Super Mario 3-D Word with my three-year-old. So most of this post at Monster Hunter Nation may as well be in Chinese. But a few things earn a critical nod: Yes, PC Master Race, spare me from your recruiting drives.… Read More Correia Blogs Fallout, I Have a CK2 Nerdery.
Casting around the Internets: A pre-med student, asked as part of a class to comment on the Emma Sulkowicz affair, goes into full attack mode. She leaves it all on the field. Relevant quote: If we don’t give colleges the power to put the accused on trial and convict criminals for murder, why do we… Read More Praise be: It’s F-f-f-friday! Linkfest for the Weekend
Within Kevin Williamson’s takedown of the mindlessness of bureacracy (And please, read the whole thing), lies this interesting nugget: Over the years, economic success and administrative demands eventually transform bands of roving bandits into bands of stationary bandits. One popular theory of the state — one that is pretty well-supported by the historical evidence in… Read More If Government is Banditry, Anarchy is Impossible
Being a fan of Star Wars is hard. You have to recognize that for all the fun it gave you, it’s also created a mass of boredom and Gungans. So very little of the Expanded Universe is done right. So much of it is a pastiche of the magic that made the first movie such… Read More Keeping Expectations Low for The Force Awakens
It’s a glorious read, especially the part where he points out that the state is a prime driver of it (h/t Protein Wisdom): First, the entitlement state exists primarily to transfer wealth regressively, from the working-age population to the retired elderly who, after a lifetime of accumulation, are the wealthiest age cohort. Second, big, regulatory… Read More George Will Takes Bernie Sanders to School
Stacey McCain is nothing if not fair-minded. He will lambaste someone six ways to Sunday, but then he will offer, dispassionately, praise. And not even backhanded praise. Damn his atheist soul, but Barrett Brown is an excellent writer. This links to Brown’s recent prison-penned review of Jonathan Franzen’s Purity, posted on The Intercept_ (the underline… Read More Caring About Jonathan Franzen
I read two of these yesterday. It’s that bad. Read for yourself if you doubt me. David Burkehead was somewhat laconic in his fisking, but he hit the theme of “the modern man does not give a moldy dog dropping about half of this nonsense. None of these things define manhood.” Over at Monster Hunter… Read More The New York Times Attempts a Lame “Modern Man” Listicle, Gets Righteously Fisked
Originally posted on Mad Genius Club:
One thing I think nobody in the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s could have anticipated, was the extent to which the popular science fiction and fantasy products of that era would continue to be dominant well past the turn of the new century. Certainly there was no indication, when the…
And by “New Wave”, I of course mean music from forty years ago. Of most interest is what he says in response to The Sex Pistols “God Save the Queen” What’s this guy so angry about anyway? Guitar work and progression is like mine. Good backbeat. Can’t understand most of the vocals. If you’re going… Read More Everything Old is Old Again – Chuck Berry Reviews the New Wave
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