Archive for June, 2008

Magic: The Puzzling part 2

So In keeping with an earlier post from paradox somehow my sweet g/f’s green black deck got eaten.  It was a decent deck but could be stopped easily with a terror where she likes big creatures, possibly ones the grow.  But what she really likes is she likes to make you lose life and her gain life, she also likes to try to reap some benefit on that.  I’ve been playing around on websites and looking for gain some lose some deck.  She also likes to pound on you with large creatures.  Does anyone have a suggestion for either some kind of theme deck or some kind of combo?  (continued)

A world of Questions

First I’d like to introduce myself to those who don’t already know who I am. I’ve posted a couple times recently, mainly on the tech side, as Stephen. I’m a friend of Andrew and Teisha’s from their undergrad years.

So, I left the office this last Tuesday (June 10th) in a very foul mood. It wasn’t because of anything at the office, it was because the NYTimes had updated its front page and this artcle was the top story. I found so many things that offended my sensibilities that I really couldn’t choose one to focus on until I realized that had this not been in Europe, but the Middle East or some of the former Soviet ‘stans, then I probably would have shrugged it off. (continued)

WTF is wrong here

I came across this story today which really made me feel the need to rant for a bit.

Apparently the people in charge at Guantanamo are aware that things are screwy enough that they printed in their procedure’s manual : “The mission has legal and political issues that may lead to interrogators being called to testify … Keeping the number of documents with interrogation information to a minimum can minimise certain legal issues,” (continued)

Blog Class

One of the contributors to a blog I read fairly frequently, Positive Liberty, is about to start a project that might be of interest to the Druid and others with an interest in science fiction and philosophy. Jason Kuznicki had an idea of a class on science fiction and collectivism, and just posted a reading list for this class, a mixture of different science fiction books and movies with the political philosophy that relates to ideas being presented. He’ll be writing posts over the next few months discussing a book per week.