So it’s the Ides and I’m thinking about adding this to my Holiday collection. The context you need is this- Brutus was in fact an honourable man. He decided in favor of Democratic (well, kinda, completely corrupt and engaged in it’s own power grab, but Cincinnatus!) Institutions instead of Autocracy and Marc Antony a leech …
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Mar 15 2020
I Told You I Was Not Kidding About Zombies
What part of that was so hard to understand? Sam Bee and Paul Krugman at the 92nd Street Y before New York City closed. “Friends, just in time for Corona Frost Cutlery and I have been able to assemble the World’s Largest Collection of Tactical Folders and Fixed Blades all in the Zombie Hunter Green …
Mar 12 2020
The Beatings Will Continue Until Morale Improves
The reason I stop doing things is I am easily bored, also I get tired. NBA- Cancelled. NCAA- Basically Cancelled (No Audience). Ditto all our Late Nights. F-1 Ready for off (are you kidding? look at Maranello and look at a map). This is just the top line of the Economic consequences. Travel ban to …
Mar 11 2020
Need Distraction?
I know I do. Currently screening people beating hot metal into weapons of murderous intent (“It weel keel”) but if I wasn’t I might be streaming this. I feel compelled to explain myself a bit. Since LotR I am an extreme sucker for Fantasy Sci-Fi and back when Paperbacks were cheap I bought a lot …
Mar 11 2020
Digital Sam
You know, like the time she got kidnapped by a mutant replicator. And the time after that. And the time after that. And the time after that. Hey, you don’t hit 200+ Episodes, 3 or 4 Spin-offs, and about the same number of Direct to DVD movies by being original (I mean, 15 minutes of …
Mar 11 2020
Hope you enjoyed your Dead Cat Bounce!
Hey, you can’t expect me to be depressed about the market every day, I had far more important things to be depressed about. But that doesn’t mean the fundamentals have changed. Futures indicate a 600 point loss from the bell and we’re just not very far at all from a definitional (Valuations 20% down from …
Mar 09 2020
Zombie Brains
Look, I’m a big fan of the Baseball Bat with or without Barbed Wire Decorations. The action is natural and smooth and you only need 40 foot pounds to satisfactorily dispatch a normal human (supernatural undead creatures requiring a bit more attention and effort) but there is the brain splatter problem I’m told you can …
Mar 09 2020
Robin of Locksley
Frankly the versions of his origin that hew more closely to a plebeian birth among dispossessed Saxons in a nowhere village close by a poacher’s paradise ring more authentically with the times than later assertions of nobility, but the core story goes that Robin, already an experienced Archer and Swordsman on both Foot and Horse, …
Mar 09 2020
Things you need to know about Vikings.
We’re not all assholes. I mean I am but I attribute it more to my Anglo/Scots-German heritage than my fierce Viking ancestors who mostly made butter and cheese. Not that them ain’t fightin’ words, ask any Texan I love the UK and would like to stay (please). But you need a few lessons on being …
Mar 09 2020
John of Patmos
Like most Classical authors we know little of him and suspect what we do, yet he is wildly popular among certain people who claim to be “Christians” and the creator (if it is a singular creation and not mere zeitgeist) of an enduring meme of Pestilence, War, Famine, and Death all of which we have …
Mar 06 2020
Nobody Loves You!
I can’t really believe we need to chat about this again but should we meet in public, face to face, I’m under no particular obligation to treat you politely. Shocking, I know. I don’t have to be nice, or respect your point of view and life experience. In fact my legal limitations are not to …