• Archive for September, 2008

    Raising Your Children Among Homosexuals

    by  • September 24, 2008. 12:17 am • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    When read­ing “Stuff White Peo­ple Like,” one of the items listed was “Gay Peo­ple” with a lit­tle aside in that par­ents try to expose their chil­dren to homo­sex­u­als at an early age. This reminded me of a dis­turb­ing inci­dent on IRC a few months ago, which has com­pelled me to write this tonight. We were in some sort […]

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    Lack of Intrawebz

    by  • September 22, 2008. 3:30 pm • General, Nikky • 0 Comments

    Hey every­one– I’ve been pack­ing and mov­ing into my apart­ment the past few days, and I’ve really been with­out a sta­ble inter­net con­nec­tion since Sat­ur­day. We ordered a line here, but I’m not sure how long that’s going to take. So more posts will hap­pen once I get that installed! In the mean­time, enjoy the stock mar­ket roller […]

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    Ralph Nader: Screwing America A Second Time Around

    by  • September 13, 2008. 9:00 pm • Danni, General, Politics • 4 Comments

    Recently Third Party Pres­i­den­tial can­di­date Ralph Nader reached his goal of appear­ing on the bal­lot in 45 states this Novem­ber. Nader appeared on the bal­lot in 43 states in the 2000 elec­tion and man­aged to cap­ture 3 % of the vote offi­cially giv­ing the elec­tion to George W. Bush. The Nader Gon­za­lez ticket could have […]

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    Pong and Moses: What Authors and Video Games Have in Common

    by  • September 11, 2008. 10:18 pm • General, Nikky • 2 Comments

    A few days ago Katy and I were talk­ing, and I started gush­ing about how amaz­ing Star­craft is… like usual. Know­ing she’s an Eng­lish major, I put it in lit­er­ary terms in how old the game is: “Star­craft is like Dick­ens era.” This got me think­ing about the pos­si­ble expan­sion of this idea. Is it pos­si­ble to jux­ta­pose gaming […]

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    Looks like America Lost

    by  • September 11, 2008. 5:34 pm • General, Nikky, Politics • 2 Comments

    So apparentally the flag is at half staff today to honor the vic­tims of a ter­ror­ist attack on sov­er­eign US soil. But instead we should redesign the flag. Maybe show the FBI logo instead. Because what it stands for are burn­ing into thin air. No gov­ern­ment inter­fer­ence or intru­sion into our pri­vate busi­ness? I can remem­ber when we […]

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    How Dare You

    by  • September 10, 2008. 10:49 pm • General, Nikky • 3 Comments

    We face dif­fi­cult times as a nation. Our econ­omy is fail­ing, our pres­tige in the world is fad­ing, and our mil­i­tary is stretched almost to its break­ing point. So it might seem nat­ural to take away fund­ing from that social­is­tic boon­dog­gle known as “pub­lic wel­fare” and use it to buy some shiny new jet instead. After […]

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