This map has real potential, BK. I hope you get a chance to update it in the near future.

That's a good point, Symmetry. I don't have much experience with guns, and don't consider myself familiar enough with the issue to form an opinion beyond "I am unhappy about gun violence." It just frustrates me to see the "toasters don't toast bread, people who want breakfast do: ban breakfast ...

If guns kill people than pencils misspell words and forks make people fat.
Regardless of one's opinion on gun control, this is an unhelpful strawman and you're not doing yourself any favors by attacking it. Nobody thinks that guns are secretly sentient murder weapons that leap from nightstands and ...

Niall Ferguson's Newsweek story was a hatchet job. Paul Krugman and Brad DeLong both wrote up full takedowns in blog posts, and The Atlantic has a fact-check up as well. Consensus is that Ferguson's cover story crosses the line from partisan to frankly unethical in its manipulation of facts and data ...

It's not that Obama won't release his college records, it's that Obama took the action to make sure that nobody can ever see his college records, he sealed his records. Romney is not sealing his taxes, he's just not volunteering them. If I were Romney, I would not release my taxes either.
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Re: Public Choice

You're right that it's easy to fall into the trap of assuming that a politician's goals align with our own (especially when they put forth policies that seem to confirm that assumption), and it seems increasingly evident that politicians are chiefly indebted ...

4 pages and not a single decent reason to vote for him. (but that's what I thought would happen)
Acquire a clue, my dude. Several people have posted reasons to vote for Obama. My earlier post in this thread encapsulated my own reasons, and in response you barfed up a scattershot diatribe that ...

That's a meaty post and deserves a meatier response, but for now I'll just clarify that when I said "liberals claim [the stimulus] should have been twice as large," I am referring to liberals I know in real life and on other, leftier forums. If that is a position held by democratic congressmen or ...

I think the point is that he is talking about putting "people" in chains, not chaining the economy with regulations. If Biden were talking about the economy, then I would have never even asked the question

Also, does what you say hold true, if say, Trent Lott cracks a private joke. not even about ...

When the Obama administration passed the stimulus they controlled both houses of congress and had a filibuster proof majority in the Senate. If from their perspective it was too small - they have only themselves to blame. That's true, and (as far as I know) it isn't "common wisdom" among Democrats ...

Obama is a centrist, corporatist tool, and I fear that he's the harbinger of the Democratic Party's broader shift rightward on most non-social issues. Nevertheless, due to the incredibly short shrift third parties get in our national elections, I absolutely believe he is the best option available to ...

Obama should not condemn Biden's remarks, and the Republican party should praise him as exactly the kind of "straight shooter" they ostensibly love. The metaphor of a chained or shackled American people is common-- Santorum claimed that the ACA "will put you in chains" at his own Iowa State Fair ...

Yeah, I'm an Ohioan and this has been a hot issue among politically-minded folks I know. I try not to jump on the "voter suppression" bandwagon every time things of this nature occur, but the evidence is fairly clear-cut in this case. This part is especially damning:
County election boards in Ohio ...

(1) Learn about Public Choice. This is interesting stuff, but I think that by now most of us are at least somewhat aware of the fact that the vast majority of politicians are in it to serve their own bottom line. The fact remains that the policies they enact while questing for the almighty dollar ...

Open question to anyone shitting on the CBO report: where should people like me, who are not economic scholars, look to for non-partisan assessment of things like this? I was of the opinion that if the CBO report is good enough for congress, it should be good enough for me; the fact that writeups on ...

Let's talk about the budget proposal and the conclusion, to which you seem to agree: "Paul Ryan's budget will drastically alter America's social programs for uncertain gain. "

Anything projected into the future is uncertain, so all gains in the future are ultimately uncertain. Anyone could say ...

Apparently, you're easily convinced.

It seems that posted out-of-context quotes, and then supplying a list of ambiguous sources, which fail to show which allegations they support, is enough for you.

Is that accurate? That is inaccurate. At no point did I indicate that everything I knew about Ryan ...

Actually, it has occurred more than once. In fact, it's been the only thing coming from the campaign and surrogates for the past 2 weeks. From Harry Reid making up the claim to the campaign itself now running ads alleging the action. I don't think it's fair to conflate one staffer's remarks with ...

a smear campaign is any campaign with the intention of ruining someone's reputation. juan posted information about ryan that he personally finds disagreeable, and thought that it would convince people to vote against ryan. what he didn't realize is that much of what he posted is accepted by many ...

since when does a smear campaign have to consist entirely of lies and half-truths? go research what a smear campaign is. i'm not a fan of everything ryan does, but you won't see me actively campaigning against him because i'm not deluding myself into thinking that obama is any better. Good point, a ...

Maybe if the Obama campaign would stop alleging Romney is a felon without proof and trying to tie him to the death of a woman who had cancer, it would be much easier to tell such a difference. They've tried to claim both those things and actual records as legitimate, so it can be hard to tell the ...

the day of! what a fast smear campaign. or did you prepare one of these for each potential vice-presidential pick? Can I ask what makes this a "smear campaign"? If the claims are true, it's not a smear: it's information. Many of the claims are particularly relevant given that they pertain to the ...

Change the name to Indeterminate Era Britain, then turn one of the castles into a dinosaur and another one into a spaceship.

*inditierminate

Map looks rad, hope it finds purchase in the rocky soil of the forge.

The simplicity of gameplay and design are excellent and play to your strengths. The struggle to make this map more "narrative" seems unnecessary: the map derives its terris/regions from medieval-era geography, why isn't that ...

In a game I'm part of now (10408154), there is a player whose only troops are on The House of Gods. All he can do each turn is deploy his troops and bombard anyone foolish enough to take one of the towers.

I realize this is Working As Intended, but it is... not ideal, especially for the unlucky ...