Boardgame News (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
BoardGameGeek has had more than its share of foofarahs – dust-ups about trivial issues that create monstrously long threads filled with heated posts – and the latest to grace the site comes in the aftermath of a request from Games Workshop to remove user-generated files that contained material that GW believed infringed on its intellectual property. After receiving a cease-and-desist letter...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 12/04/2009
by Eric Martin Some day I imagine he will repay me for this. I'm prepared to make that tradeoff.
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 12/03/2009
by Eric Martin In the aftermath of Obama's big speech on Afghanistan, Judah Grunstein observed that the prospective plan as enunciated had something for everyone - as well as the potential to disappoint all listeners. That was my immediate take...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
by Eric Martin Following up on the recent analysis of the stimulus - which highlighted the stimulative effects of infrastructure projects - this Louis Uchitelle article makes another important point: For the first time in memory, the nation has no...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
by Eric Martin Ezra Klein links to a chart put out by the CBO which breaks down which elements of the stimulus bill were the most, well, stimulating in terms of bang for the buck. The conclusions should not be...
Boardgame News (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
By Ted Cheatham and W. Eric Martin December 2, 2009 Designer: Jack Degnan Publisher: Out of the Box Publishing Players: 2-8 Ages: 12+ Playing Time: 20-30 minutes Rules Language: English Price: $25 Links: Ted Cheatham gives the buzz about Word on the Street , a new tug-of-war style word game from Out of the Box: If you want to skip YouTube, you can download the video from the BGN server, or you can...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 12/01/2009
by Eric Martin Since Von has been trespassing on my Af-Pak turf, allow me to hijack one of his sturdiest hobby horses: When the Obama administration announced that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (i.e. the stimulus) had saved or...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
by Eric Martin As discussed on this site on numerous occasions, one of the oddest arguments for escalating/perpetuating our military presence in Afghanistan is the stated fear that our withdrawal would destabilize Pakistan. Implicit in this formulation is the presumption...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 11/30/2009
by Eric Martin Nicholas Kristof from a couple of weeks back: President Obama and Congress will soon make defining choices about health care and troops for Afghanistan. These two choices have something in common — each has a bill of...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 11/28/2009
by Eric Martin Eric remained unimpressed with David's theory of how the personal lives of Nietzsche and Schopenhauer impacted their respective philosophical outlooks.
BobFromBrockley (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
First, a huge thank you to Roland , for naming me as one of his favourite blogs in his Normblog profile . He's on the same wave length as me, as demonstrated by this: Who are your intellectual heroes? > Hannah Arendt, Fredrich Engels, George Orwell. Over at his music blog, some recent highlights include The First Rock 'n' Roll Song ; Paul Whiteman, the jazz era and the Hungarian suicide song ; early...
Boardgame News (Free subscription) | 11/26/2009
By Jeff Allers November 26, 2009 German Word of the Month: Nachspeise (dessert) “If you can’t make it to Essen, then make Essen come to you.” That has been my motto and motivation the past three years for the “After-Essen Party” in Berlin, and Michael of the Spielwiese has gladly hosted the event, as it always falls on the “birthday” of his café, which...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
by Eric Martin "I have long supported the goal of universal health care," Lieberman told reporters. "Ned Lamont can talk about it. I’ve been doing something about it all the time I’ve been here. -2006 Peter Beinarttheorizes as to the...
kumimonster livejournal (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
so i really can't believe that i got all those cancellations at once still. i suppose i could say that i prompted it - not the actual canceling but the timing. i had sent out emails reconfirming shoot details. of course, luckily it did happen before so i had options. i keep thinking on what i'm missing out on though. being able to see friends in london, paris, & amsterdam. being able to see friends...
Obsidian Wings (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
by Eric Martin Steve Clemons tries to suss out the price tag associated with escalation/continuation in the rudderless conflict in Afghanistan: The White House is suggesting the price tag will be...$1 million per new soldier per year. And can I...
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