Thursday, May 26, 2011

What Happens When You Confront Chinese Secret Police?

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This . The reporter then asks for the "regular" police for protection, who, shockingly, don't show up. One approach: next t...
Tuesday, May 10, 2011

How to Measure Ideologies

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From a post at my atheist blog: The existence of dissidents is a fair acid-test for whether there is actual logic underlying the ideology,...
Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Finally My Tragic Artistic Genius Has Been Recognized

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I entered a "freestanding art" piece in the UCSD grad student art show. There's no picture here, because there's no need....
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Saturday, April 9, 2011

Brilliant Review of Joyce's Ulysses

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Ulysses is an overwrought, overwritten epic of gratingly obvious, self-congratulatory, show-off erudition that, with its overstuffed symboli...
Sunday, April 3, 2011

Alternative History 1: What If Homo Erectus Still Existed Today?

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Next in the series, alternate history vs actual history test: which really happened? Also check out geographic counterfactuals in fictio...
Thursday, March 31, 2011

Rand Paul at the Congressional Correspondents Dinner

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You gotta love the guy, he actually made a Star Trek reference. Given that he was in D.C., I'm not sure how many people in the room got...
Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Signing Off Until Late June

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Interesting as the world is (to me at least), I really have to focus on studying until after my big test. Thanks for reading. Until then: ...