I bought a high-definition television set with gorgeous color. Then I bought a high-definition gaming system capable of photo-realistic marvels.
And then I discovered that almost every game made for the Xbox 360 uses a color pallet of mud and midnight. All the games have to be moody and dark and gritty. I am always [...] Read more »

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I’ve been downloading a lot of demo games on the XBox 360 and deleting a lot of them, too. It’s amazing how bad some of these demos are; it’s like the game companies don’t have a single lick of marketing sense.
the point of a demo is to let you know whether or not the [...] Read more »

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Sebastian wonders if Hillary Clinton’s recent questionable remarks about her success with white voters will earn her the kind of fast-track out of Washington that a Republican would get for saying such a thing:

I’m honestly surprised if any candidate for President, of either party, can get away with saying something quite that baldly and get [...] Read more »

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Just a couple more observations about the primary before I pack it in for this season. Throughout the campaign I’ve heard people say there’s precious little difference between Obama and Clinton’s policy proposals. That may be true. But Clinton had only lately become a populist and champion of blue-collar America. And when it came to [...] Read more »

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Matt Taibbi’s article “
Jesus Made Me Puke” about his experience going undercover at an evangelical Christian religious retreat demonstrates another deep flaw in the philosophy of Skepticism — its deeply incurious streak. The one that seeks to debunk rather than discover answers.

The previous half hour or so I’d spent dawdling in my car outside [...] Read more »

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