Robert Adler, inventor of the modern remote control, has died.Had he not invented it, I would be less fat and better read.
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My thoughts...I am displeased by the depiction of Marcus Agrippa. The Moltke to Octavian's Bismarck is portrayed as a stammering schoolboy, and he looks like a damn hobbit. Octavian wasn't.
To add briefly to the point that Ezra has made, one of the most irritating aspects of CSI (which, sadly, I have been unable to break from) is the common,.
Re-reading Michael Walzer has got me to thinking about Cylons and justice in war. Simply put, what methods of combatting the Cylons are impermissible under a common understanding of justice in war? I should add that, while this formulation applies specifically to organized conflict against...
Random Observation: When I saw Jarhead in Fall 2005, I thought it was quite good. Few others seem to have shared that view, and I didn't think too much about.
For some reason I've become addicted to CSI in its various forms. This troubles me, because I really, really don't like CSI. It's worse than the time last year when.
In the last episode of BSG, we learned that, some three years ago, a Colonial recon ship crossed into Cylon territory where it was discovered, destroyed, and its pilot captured. The Blame the Colonies First Crowd has apparently decided that this means that the Colonial...
Japan withdrew from the London Naval Treaty in 1936. The chief Japanese negotiator, Admiral Isoruku Yamamoto, feared that concessions on the part of his negotiating team would lead directly to.
A Mercury class battlestar, Pegasus entered service at some point between the First and Second Cylon wars. Her design represented a remarkable advance over that of the earliest battlestars, occupying.
Variety reports... The Sopranos will not return until March. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the first of several delays. Rome will return in January, but will only have one more season. Maybe they'll get to Actium? Max Pirkis is going to have to...
It looks as if the Bevilacqua kid ("Cause that sugarless motherfucker, it's the last fucking drink you're ever gonna have.") has some actual legal problems:An actor who once played an.
What I'm watching...Regularly:My Name is Earl: They haven't yet managed to equal the pilot, and I thought that the last episode was a little bit weak. Still, I have confidence;.