There Ain’t No Such Thing As A Free Lunch.

—Lazarus Long


Archive for June, 2006

Oderint, dum metuant

Monday, June 12th, 2006

In Nablus, a young man is kidnapped by Palestinian terrorists — who then set him free on learning he is an American because they don’t want to end up like Abu Musab al-Zarqawi so recently did.
I am irresistibly reminded of a piece of cynical wisdom from the mouth of the mad Roman emperor Caligula, born [...]

Monkey feces and other forms of communication

Monday, June 12th, 2006

I have extremely strong convictions about free speech and robust debate. Thus, I was rather unhappy the first time that I decided it was necessary to delete a comment on this blog. The rule I published at that time was that comments that were both (a) anonymous, and (b) content-free vitriol, would be [...]

Massive Intelligence Raids Follow Zarqawi’s Death

Thursday, June 8th, 2006

NEW YORK (Disassociated Press) – In a surprise sequel to the death of top al-Qaeda
terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi this morning, police have executed
raids and searches on dozens of newsrooms and editorial offices
belonging to a shadowy and ill-defined network called the “MSM”. The
resulting haul of intelligence on terrorist objectives and strategy
has been described as “priceless”.
“It’s [...]

Commands and Colors: Ancients

Monday, June 5th, 2006

I’ve put a new page up on my website about the excellent Commands & Colors: Ancients game. It’s just couple of variant rules and some scenario results now, but may grow in the future.