Have 20-sider, Will Travel
Kaylr.com - A Real-life Dungeon? - This Daily Torygraph story about the Belgian pensioner killed by his own booby-trap sounds too much like an RPG scenario to be true. Was he a fan of Gary Gygax's "Tomb of Horrors"?
Hello from Walden!
Fragments ~ from Floyd - Good Life, Fertile Soil - I remember a cool November morning like this one, watching the steam rise up through the slanting sun as it lifted from the mound of hot compost: the heat of decay turning water into vapor. I had read an article in our worn how-to magazines that said you could actually slow-cook a chicken in your compost pile if you tended the pile just right and you coaxed the bacteria to produce enough heat.
Jack Handey has a Posse
Heretical Ideas - Philosophic Foundations For Libertarianism - In fact, it could be argued that mind-body integration can, in fact, undermine capitalism. One of the failings of materialist philosophy is that it does not provide a satisfactory answer to the existence of free will. If the universe is completely materialistic, then free will, by definition, does not exist.
Ipse Dixit - Not The Right Course - The focus on "freedom to" rather than "freedom from" is, I believe, the most essential error of modern liberalism. The Founders established our country to be one based on negative rights - rights the government could not abridge ("freedom from"). Taking its cue from the pre-WWII Progressive movement, modern liberalism has tended to focus on positive rights ("freedom to").
Philosoblog - Common Sense, National Review, and God - National Review is a great source of wisdom. But it likes to assure us that morality requires God, and this is as false as can be.
Media Bash
Sine Qua Non Pundit - The Scourge of Richard Cohen, Vol. LXIII - If Eminem is the new Elvis, I guess I could be the new Barry Mann and start putting the bomp bomp bomp bomp bomp on little Richard.
The Paper Chase
The Kitchen Cabinet - Who Needs Logic?
Pop Goes the Culture, cuz the Culture goes Pop!
Ipse Dixit - Much Improved - First and foremost, I am pleased to report that they corrected the first movie's biggest problem: slavish adherence to the book. Sorcerer's Stone was a disappointment mainly because the producers were obviously terrified of how the fans would react if they left anything out.
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