The Czechs are Scaring Me

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I'm sure that everyone recalls this recruitment video for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (you just can't watch it enough, really). At the apparently resurrected Defense Statecraft, Macgyver has assembled recruiting videos for the Czech Army, the Irish Army, and the Philippine Marine Corps. The Czech...

Random Sports Notes

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Fer Chrissakes, what exactly did the city of Seattle do to offend the Gods of Officiating? What a year. Well, as a commenter at USS Mariner noted, the bottom of the ninth at Yankee Stadium is always the toughest five outs in baseball... There are a...

Priorities

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Spending money on potentially life-saving research, with "overwhelming public support; bi-partisan backing in both chambers of Congress; the demands of medical researchers who are tired of watching the United States fall further and further behind; intense pressure from Nancy Reagan [and] the fact that congressional Democrats...

Kantian Nihilism?

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Chris Muir (who either--my bet--hasn't read a word of, or utterly fails to understand, Kant) essays some pretension for the wingnut masses, and flops embarrassingly. More so than usual, I.

Seeking Answers to Stupid Questions

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The way in which Google Ads changes to reflect page content is always kind of fun to follow. The last couple days, presumably in response to several Israel-centric posts, we seem to be getting large numbers of ads for dating sites featuring "Single Jewish Women". This...
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