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Animes I have watched and am watching

Apropos of nothing, simply because I have another 2 days worth of weekend, here's a short list of anime I can recommend to anyone (but especially young men, because that's the genre I'm normally stuck...

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Hot Air finally strikes back

Okay, so onto the story of LGF vs the Right-Wing Blogosphere. This will probably get my account banned for sure, but let's see.So LGF has been embroiled in a holy war with the rest of the Right-Wing...

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Author Review - Edward Marston

First, a little rant about the way literary publishers treat their customers.Almost everything can be delivered digitally nowadays; from music to videos to sermons to software to TV. In most cases, the...

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The End Of The World: Is That So Bad?

Well, yes, yes it is. To any conservative, this is an obvious answer. After all, the way I understand my strain of conservatism;Because humans are generally prone to failure and lack much foresight, it...

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The Unity of Christians

You know, I was going to put up a post - and a long one too - with regards to Roman Catholics and their strangeness in refusing Holy Communion (also known as the Last Supper, or the Eucharist) to...

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Thanks, Chris!

I hope you've gotten the second payment - they certainly took it from my CC. The only problem is that either the idiots at the USPS or the morons at Pos Malaysia decided it was a good idea to squoosh...

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The Damaged Human Condition

All people have some form of damage or another. Generally speaking, of course, most kinds of damage are not fatal or life-threatening, and you might not even be aware of it, because this damage is not...

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Anime Awesomeness and Badassery

I don't know how many people actually read this blog, and of those who do, who is actually into Japanese animation. But for those of you who are, you're likely aware that there are several genres of...

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The Decalogue - Core laws for morally upright individuals

The Decalogue, or the Ten Commandments, is quite possibly the most important set of laws ever legislated. After all, it had to be given twice. They are recited at church and synagogue services, and...

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The Roman Polanski conundrum

He raped a 13 year old girl. He pleaded guilty. He ran away to France before he was sentenced. He has been a fugitive from justice for over three decades.Those are the facts of the matter. Why is there...

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Relationships

It should come as no surprise to anyone that I am a conservative-leaning sort of fellow, both fiscally as well as socially. Hence, I do subscribe to quite a largish number of right-leaning blogs, most...

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Where’s the proof?

One of the blogs on my blogroll, Samizdata, had a post on Tony Blair and atheism or something of the sort, I forget. Anyways, it quickly shifted tone in the comments to centre on the what is the nature...

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Well played, Allahpundit

Holy crap.Okay, so let me set the scene for you. Allahpundit, one of the resident bloggers on HotAir, posted a little bit on the Navy SEALs that have (as is their right) called for a court-martial into...

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The Mega Threads

Gentlemen, I am proud to own myself a moronblogger. Indeed, it was the esteemed Ace of Spades who was my gateway to political blogs and the world of blogging in general - yes, Instapundit is indeed the...

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Banhammer III: Banhammer Resurrection

Okay, so if anybody's interested, Ace hosted two epic, epic threads on his blog. On the topic of banninating anybody who hides their racism behind lame jokes. Major simplification, but hey, at...

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Merry Christmas!

To anybody reading my blog: Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!This is the time, as Advent draws to an end and Christmas Day is upon us, that we take the time to commemorate Jesus' coming into...

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Gong Xi Fa Chai

Wishing everyone a Happy Chinese New Year!

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Powered with Zemanta

Okay, so this is a simple notification that I'm using ScribeFire to write some of my posts, and that it's using something called Zemanta to load tracking pixels. I usually hate these things, because...

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Maundy Thursday

As Holy Week draws to a close, with Good Friday just around the corner and Easter but three days away, it behooves me to reflect a little on what I've been doing on my life, and what lies ahead; for me...

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Archived message (cross-posted)

One thing I really hate is abuse of resources. In this case, some script kiddie so-called 'hacker' is launching a DoS (yes, present tense as I write this) against BakaBT, which is one of the cooler...

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The best kind of fiction

When you read a book, you generally want some form of escapism. I mean, can you imagine reading a book that details what you do on a daily basis all over again? Only if explosions or a torrid affair...

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Free? Not so much...

Probably not a big deal for most of you, but I would like to talk about 'free' software for a bit.Richard Stallman is the man to go to (and blame) for the start of this entire issue. He created a bunch...

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The limits of engineering

A while back, I posted on the utter disgust I felt towards a particular short SF story concerning its abuse of the 'big lie, little lie' technique. I am reminded of it again at the immense and rather...

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Happy Independence Day!

Wishing all Americans a Happy Fourth Of July.

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Blog clean-up

There is a serious problem when it is harder to make changes to your blog's layout than it is to actually just add a post. Just goes to show how long it's been since I did any actual blogging.Fact of...

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