Recent content by Lockesdonkey

Tonight: Channa dal, modified for slow-cooker. It's a simple recipe, so I'm not going to bother. However, I will soon (in a day or two) be making a creation of mine, orange creamsicle chicken. Before you ask, it doesn't literally involve an orange creamsicle: Ingredients: 1 lb. chicken...

Gameplaywise, yes. It does. Also, let's be honest, historywise. I would argue that "force everyone to adopt X policy" is idiotic. On the other hand, some kind of peacekeeping/international coordination is actually a good tool, especially if it can be used by the dominant powers to play power...

PS: The reason I need someone else to do this rather than do it myself is that I have a Mac. Go figure.

Which is one problem. Also, the close button doesn't seem to be there. Is there something I'm missing? For the record: I have a brand-new 13.3' MacBook Pro.

In my head, I've been dreaming up a contemporary-world scenario, and one thing has started to bug me: Canada. It's a Middle Power. If the world were a game, Canada would not be "in it to win it". In other words, classic City-State. But it's also the world's second-largest country by...

I always rather enjoyed playing on the Map of Planet...um...map in Civ 4 (adapted of course from SMAC). Has anyone made one? NOTE: First post in years... EDIT: By "map", I literally just mean a map. No modding--I understand that there are several reasons a new Planetfall isn't happening soon...

Recklessly skipping over 5+ pages of discussion, the answer is: Mu. The true question is: What's the problem with the Muslim world? The two are separate. The religion is fine. The region is not.

There should of course continue to be restrictions on use based on risk, which seems increasingly to be more a question of number of partners than of whether a man has sex with women or men. When that is confirmed scientifically, there will really be no justification for any kind of regulation...

I don't see what the brouhaha is all about. The DoD has pretty much already decided that the policy is dumb and counterproductive after the damage it did in Iraq and Afghanistan (that whole linguists thing), and it will probably be phased out through the political process at some point in the...

That's because the Western US was mostly empty when it was divided into territories. Dividing things along natural boundaries doesn't make sense when there aren't enough people (or should I say, "people," since there were plenty of Native Americans) to make any of these boundaries meaningful...

Very funny. Who still wears saggy pants, anyways? Didn't those go out of style, like, five or six years ago? While I think the law is frankly ridiculous, I doubt there's anything legally blocking this ordinance. The state has an unquestionable right to regulate things that happen in full...

The simple fact of the matter is that all of this post is idiotic. To say that a Muslim community center led by a Sufi--who are, in general, apolitical mystics--cannot be built on any particular patch of ground in the United States is insulting to Islam and inimical to freedom of religion. To be...

Since never, which is why I live in Michigan and not Cairo.

Unless the evilness of mosques is like gravity (not an unreasonable assumption, since the enemies of the project seem to think of mosques as evil black holes of terrorism), in which case they will be a quarter as terrified. Since you're being serious: Screw you, your idiotic opinions about...

Indeed. And MLK wasn't just an "omg, he's a socialist!" but a self-identified and committed socialist. A Christian Socialist, based on the theory that Jesus would have liked the idea of (non-Marxist) socialism (quite well-founded; better-founded than the idiotic theory that he would have had...