My friend Alex, onerangerfan, has recently declared Indiana Jones to be the ultimate Badass. This is patently untrue. While Indiana Jones kicks ass, it is impossible to say that he is the Ultimate Badass. Sean Connery is the ultimate badass. No matter who he is, where he is, he is the Ultimate Badass. He is the one and only true Bond. He is ( Read more... )

I think this does a good job of describing ideologies and what happens under them ( Read more... )

Okay, firstly, don't buy the WMD argument. Don't buy the Al Qaeda argument. Don't buy the humanitarian argument. While all of those are good reasons for eliminating Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti, and all three valid arguments, they are not, in my humble opinion, the true reason for toppling Saddam. The reason is fundamentalist Islam ( Read more... )

You know, I was walking home from the IU vs U of I basketball game tonight and I realized something. Those people who live in the United States, use its educational system, and take advantage of the wonderful system of government preserved by the Constitution, to get a job, get paid, say and do what they want within certain legal restrictions, and ( Read more... )

10. 1415: Henry V of England slaughters the French army at Agincourt, then persuading the insane king of France, Charles IV, to recognize him as King of England and France, thus bringing the end of the Hundred Year's War within visible distance of it's end. Unfortunately Henry died before Charles, ruining what would have been a real coup, and ( Read more... )