February 2011
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January 2011
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The organization of Imperial era line warfare...
must have really sucked! Like, what about the guy on the front? He has absolutely no chance to live because of the incredibly drilled fashion of line warfare. He just points his gun and hopes that he shoots first. Like, he’s right across from the guy he’s supposed to fire at and he can’t shoot until he is expressly ordered to.
“I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.”
– Emperor Sigismund at the Council of Constance 1414
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Whatever happened to the History Channel and, you...
According to this article recently published by the New York Times, 2010 was the highest rated year for the History Channel (Now just History), ever. Now, my main concern with this statistic is that this was the year that History decided to stop focusing on History and start focusing on things that purportedly make History. By making History, they of course mean airing shows like Ice Road Truckers...
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Games for Windows Live...
Is good in theory, but in practice, is worse than a coked up paralytic shotgun wielding Nicolas Cage (the greatest american actor) leading the armies of heaven during the rapture.
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An editorial on discontinuing the production of... →
Who keeps pennies around anymore anyways? Whenever I drop coins on the ground by accident I often just pick up anything that’s not copper. Hell, sometimes I use pennies as projectiles, they’re worth nothing and the government is spending more money than it actually has producing them. I think though, in general, cash money is dying and will soon be replaced entirely by plastic, which I...
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On Morality
I was reading a section of Hamlet today and I came across a passage that has always been a favorite of mine, “for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”(Hamlet, Act 2, scene II, 239-251). This is uttered almost distantly by Hamlet as he ruminates on the allegedly incestuous relationship between his stepfather/uncle Claudius and his mother, Gertrude. This musing...
“Despotism may govern without faith, but liberty cannot.”
– Alexis de Tocqueville: Democracy in America So far, Democracy in America is a very charming look at the political life of Jacksonian America. This is very good for me to read right now because I just came off of reading American Lion: Andrew Jackson by John Meacham.
The East India Company still exists! →
It’s owned by an indian too! PLOT TWIST!
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