I remember the feeling of powerlessness through the 80s, where Dems were effectively marginalized as ‘bleeding hearts’ lacking the strength necessary to prevail against our Communist counterparts. The Undecideds kept breaking for Bryl Cream. Clinton succeeded in finally winning them over in sufficient numbers to break…

In the interest of being similarly clear, that second paragraph contains a number of statements presented as facts that are seemingly not born out by evidence. I wouldn’t care but for the fact that they tend to lead into arguments for capital punishment and are built on a faulty foundation.

I also previously believed…

Come on, where’s my Tachibana Ukyo? Your Miyamoto Musashi analog needs his Sasaki Kojiro. How many people were really clamoring for Texan Ninja Earthquake over Ukyo and Hanzo?

“Data shows that in 2001, when the rate of attacks was at its peak, 61 percent of victims were white, and 33 percent of victims were black. But whites, despite making up around eight percent of the population, own 73 percent of farming land in South Africa, meaning that they are actually underrepresented in attacks on…

This is pointless hair-splitting over what a hacker is. It’s pointless because this whole argument (“script kiddies aren’t hackers”, “Social engineers aren’t hackers”) isn’t even internally consistent with uses of the term dating back to the 60s. Guys like Mitnick, who are practically synonymous with the term hacker,…

So basically he ends up like Stallone?

He’s just reciting the usual Star Citizen true believer pabulum, nevermind that the logic isn’t even internally consistent. ‘This is a badly needed rebuke to big publishers that will save PC gaming’, but it’s funded by buying the prospect of in-game assets in a whale-soaking ruse that would make EA blush. They aren’t…

Unfortunately, it will also look ineffectual and be played off as histrionic obstructionism in the press, then also used to motivate the OTHER base. And how will it play to the Ken Bones of the world, the undecideds who are just looking for any weird excuse to vote the other way?

This is going to sound like a weird…

Posts like this make me appreciate comment systems that allow for downvotes.

This is all spot on. And it’s also an unfortunate fact that winning elections is a regional popularity contest. If we accept the premise that Mr. Johnson’s definition of white supremacy is as endemic as he attests, particularly in the rural precincts that make up the majority of the voting districts, then how can Dems…

Conveniently ignored in the Sheriff’s ‘We’re tough on them criminals’ retort is any justification of why he should benefit so lavishly from the sweat of the taxpayers’ brow. That’s the key to getting this to resonate with his constituents, who will doubtless otherwise happily consign ‘criminals’ to eating garbage.

1st edition Mechwarrior hit in the mid 80s, so it was 4 by the time the first PC game was born. Unlike 2nd edition, which drew from Shadowrun, 1st edition Mechwarrior treated the people a lot like mechs, with little boxes to mark off for each damage location. It was much more fiddly and peculiar as a system and never…

I first hit this conundrum back in the 80s as a kid who loved PE and Big Daddy Kane. I’ve always subbed in ‘brotha’ where appropriate when I couldn’t help but rap along to songs like New Jack Hustler. Sometimes it makes for weird lines (‘brikity brothas in the corner’ in By the Time I Get to Arizona), but I can feel…

The theme of the story is well taken and Quentin clearly has a long and well established history of being a skeevy victimizing creep.

Ms. Chastain’s comment about female protagonists being subject to anguish as a strengthening tool being specifically problematic, however, felt like a misfire to me. In Quentin’s case,…

We just had an officer exonerated locally for shooting an unarmed man in the back after he had been tasered multiple times. The victim was white and police defenders still fell all over themselves to blame him for having run. If you feel like wading into the cesspool of Disqus, look up Lisa Mearkle on Pennlive and…

Neither the white supremacists nor the Amish are big demographics in the ‘Alabama in between’ parts of PA. The majority are proud ‘common sense’ conservatives who firmly believe ingrained Fox News and talk radio mantras about ‘fairness’ (everyone rich earned all of their money and their decisions are wise because they…

Communication, verbal or otherwise, and a sincere interest in both listening and acting upon what is said or unsaid. Paying attention to what our partners want, to what is working and what isn’t. It’s a sort of attunement, a taut attentiveness to their desires and needs which may well fluctuate or shift from moment to…

That’s the doorway to a really lengthy and potentially interesting discussion about crime, punishment, and rehabilitation that I’m not able to adequately participate in at the moment. The short version of my answer is that we are talking about 3 separate factors (at least) here- what should be done to the perpetrator…

I suppose I’ve lived long enough to see all sorts of horrors perpetrated that have the capacity to ‘ruin’ a life, from people being deliberated maimed or acid-scarred to lives (and families) forever altered by Nixon’s drug war. Addictions can ruin lives, as can mental illness, and those aren’t inflicted by anyone…

The notion that manhood is diminished by homosexuality is what fueled this asshole to kill his kid in the first place. Implying that forced homosexuality (and implicitly diminished manhood) is the most severe Mikado-like punishment possible feeds the same flame.