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Lions Den III: Kate Paulk 27 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
Along with Dave Freer, Sarah Hoyt, and Chris McMahon, Kate Paulk is a member of the Mad Genius Club. She is also a Mensa-qualified history buff and her take on Vlad Tepes, aka Dracula, Impaler, is bas...
The Wrong Guy Game 27 Aug 2013 | 12:23 pm
Given the inability of the low-IQ set to learn from the mistakes of others, it would appear that there are going to be more and more Trayvons and DeAndres as time goes on: DeAndre was part of a patte...
Mailvox: John Scalzi IS Stuart Smalley 27 Aug 2013 | 04:17 am
He's good enough, he's smart enough, and DOGGONE IT, people like him! An acquaintance emails me to wonder if McRapey has finally jumped the shark: But, here’s the thing. I may be a dirty dirty femini...
Privatizing the State Department 26 Aug 2013 | 10:25 pm
Never forget that corporations are creations of government: Back in 2011 I had a meeting with Eric Schmidt, the then Chairman of Google, who came out to see me with three other people while I was und...
Bound by Zero: the Hall paper 26 Aug 2013 | 06:00 pm
Like Karl Denninger, I found the conclusion of Fed economist Robert Hall's paper to be fascinating, both for what it did and did not say: 4.4 The deflation nightmare So far, inflation has fallen onl...
Rating the epic fantasies 26 Aug 2013 | 01:53 pm
Someone came up with this idea in the comments and I thought it would be interesting, especially because I recently started reading two would-be epic fantasies that are, in a word, DEEE-readful. Abou...
An amazing coincidence 26 Aug 2013 | 01:30 am
In an amazing and unsettling coincidence, it seems the recent massacre in Syria, which we are supposed to believe was committed by the Assad regime just as it had taken control of the civil war, was a...
Women and military discipline 25 Aug 2013 | 10:00 pm
As bad as this sounds, the reality is even worse: I once asked a friend who is a retired Army command sergeant major how they disciplined the women. He replied, “You can’t. If you try, they charge yo...
The grimy pessimism of George RR Martin 25 Aug 2013 | 06:07 pm
Rowan Light addresses the silly and unjustified claim that George RR Martin's epic work is comparable, let alone superior, to JRR Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings: Though Martin knows how to tell a go...
Ruthless compliance 25 Aug 2013 | 02:19 pm
The Marine Corps appears to be going about complying with the Defense Department’s decision earlier this year to repeal the Direct Combat Exclusion Rule in a correct and effective manner. The Marine ...
