Phoning it in: My reading list for the rest of the year.

...be exact. This chronicles the only way philosophical arguments should be settled; one professor chasing another around a room with a fire poker. A future book in the same vein will be titled: Rdxdave's Chainsaw and the Post-modernists . The Shed: I've heard about this book from a couple different people. Sometimes inspirational literature can be good (hopefully). Years of Talking Dangerously: ...

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Spider Mouse

Marvel is bought by Walt Disney Corporation, and while it certainly is interesting news I can't say that I have any emotional reaction. I had been a fan of Marvel comics for a long time, never really caring for the unsurprising and always predictable Superman nor for the infinite variations of the "Crisis on Infinite Earth" series that DC used to eat up issues in the 90s when it wasn't ...

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Wiki-Editting

So it looks like information is going back into the hands of "wrinkly old white people" huh, Jimmy Wales, you fucking douchebag. Earlier this year I was criticizing Jimmy Wales who in USA Network's "Characters welcome" series said that his goal was to remove the documentation and dissemination of knowledge from some mysterious cabal of white people. Well it seems now that the upper hand is on ...

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We finally return to our series...

First off you might want to check out this link to get re-acquainted with one of my favorite sequence of blog entries, despite the fact that it may or may not be one of yours. To summarize what we have done thus far: we have gone through eight chapters, eight books of Benjamin Wiker's list of ten that have screwed up the world. He also added five that didn't help because if the title would ...

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Watchmen

"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes."--Juvenal, Satires I didn't research that, it's actually in the back of the graphic novel. I'm not going to pretend that I was a big fan of the comic when I was younger or that I read it many years ago. I had flipped through it when I worked at Media Play, thought it was interesting but never bought it. I finally perused the whole thing in November and felt that...

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I, Strahd: The War Against Azalin

"The book was well worth the long wait it took for me to get it. I only hope there is a sequel ." The above line I wrote in 2007 as the last in an entry that was a review of the book, "I, Strahd." As it turns out there was a sequel. When we left off Strahd was a fully indoctrinated Vampire and supreme lord of the land of Barovia. The powers in control of the land had not only granted him power ...

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10 Books...Part VI

We continue on in my series reviewing the book, "10 Books that Screwed up The World and Five that Didn't Help." Parts I-V can be read here (link goes to livejournal [it's just easier there]). We are finally at the actual 10 worst books, and if you think that it's been bad so far it actually can get worse. So bad in fact, that we have to tackle the first of the ten in two parts. The first ...

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10 Books...Part II: Defending Rene Descartes

I've never written those last three words together as an idea before. Damn you Wiker for making me do this. My hate for Descartes' writing is documented and now Wiker is making me read something in which I have to defend the Frenchman. It's not that Wiker doesn't like Descartes, if that were the case we wouldn't have this chapter as a post. It's that Wiker fundamentally misunderstands several...

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