There are many things wrong in this story, but let me focus on this one for the moment: That's right, not only were they forced to live under the accusation of being child pornographers, but the FBI naturally had to seize all their computers, since they contained all the evidence. Like nice pictures of their cat Fluffy. Shouldn't that have had some impact on the … [Read more...] about Make Them Stop Taking Our Computers
Hail to the King, Baby!
After one final delay (see Gearbox studio head Randy Pitchford's gracious apology), the long, long, long awaited video game Duke Nukem Forever (a.k.a. "The Chinese Democracy of video games") is scheduled to ship on June 14, and it's already gone gold in pre-orders. Check out the latest trailer: I think I actually prefer this older trailer which came out a few months ago: I am … [Read more...] about Hail to the King, Baby!
Libertarianism and the Need For Compassion
A few weeks ago, Peter Moskos asked the folks at The Agitator to explain a few things about libertarianism and the need for compassion. Now, in a fit of shameless self-promotion, I'd like to link to my three part answer at Nobody's Business: Part 1: Ideology Part 2: Force and Freedom Part 3: Compassion Taken together, these form a sort of introduction to libertarianism for … [Read more...] about Libertarianism and the Need For Compassion
Disappointed!
What a friggin' waste of my time! It's now 6:22 pm local time and still no Rapture. It was supposed to start at 6:00 pm and I was all ready for it. I had my camera with a basic theodolite setup, and pointing directly towards a local church. Being in a typical American city, there are churches every few blocks, of course, so I was ready to slew the camera towards at least … [Read more...] about Disappointed!
See Ya
So I hear that someone somewhere is saying the rapture will happen tomorrow. Of course, for my Jewish and Muslim readers this is no big deal, since everyone knows that only Christians are eligible for rapture. Actually, as my co-blogger Ken pointed out to me the other day, only the really good Christians will be raptured. The rest have to stay here to slug it out with the … [Read more...] about See Ya