I have four, all done by myself. 1st: inside left ankle. Iron Cross, with wreath and scroll underneath with the letters "Hugh". It was just an image that came to mind easily, and I felt like commerating my Granfather. 2nd: Right inside calf. Rebel Flag, with a skull, and two crossed bongs....

I mean, My childhood was spent wandering the woods, creeks and building primitive man traps. And my younger cousins seem to respond well to a similar exposure. Sure, they play with phones and tablets, but they also paint, shoot pellet guns, and play with wooden swords. And run around wearing keffiya...

What constitutes a "great" childhood? Isn't that a little bit subjective? Like, do kids really grow up thinking it was "Great" to go do all these "character building" exercises their parent wants them to do?

Ok, so this is kinda a stodgy one, but it's real simple. I don't like the way a lot of people park. I don't like non handicapped people parking in handicapped places. Even when I am driving a handicap vehicle, If I am not transporting the person, I generally park in a normal place. But people who pa...

I'm not gonna go all sper geek on military weapons systems, but short story: we used an anti-personal weapon against hardened targets. Caz, in SR terms? We used flechette ammo when we should have used APDS. My current line of thinking is something like this: Chester Cheetoh: Sheeeyit, sheeit gys. I ...

Long story short, this was a telegraphed blow. Important syrian air assets got to safety, and nothing is really changed.

Maybe ww3 is in the cards. Or maybe, Assad took one for the team.

I just don't think I talk that slow...

Wow. I mean, I never really liked him that much, but I didn't realize he was that far of a pyscho. I just hated how one day he told me I didn't know shit about actual tactics, and then turned around and posted a write up where the "Stealth" operators had silences on their guns, with explos...

was Wendigo really that goddamned bad?

It's not a perfect solution, but Yugoslavia is one of the best examples of international co-operation to prevent genocide and secretarian violence. There were some bad things: the KLA was and is a terrorist organization, the Checnyans used it as an excuse to ride around on technicals and thumb their...

I wouldn't blame just this election cycle. I think our media has had slanted and skewed coverage for quite some time. It's just kept creeping more and more towards propaganda. As I've said: I think 9/11 hastened it for people, it made it more palatable, because, MURICA! But that creep just kept goin...

Something like Yugolsavia. An internationally mandated peacekeeping force, punishment of war criminals. Of course, that would require a level of co-operation between us and the Russians that isn't forthcoming.

But look how much effort it took, and where we started from. Insults were hurled on both sides, and it's taken... what, three pages, to come to the agreement that yes, the middle east is fucked up. I fear intervention efforts, because... well, we haven't been very good at them, historically. Remembe...

Well, I may not be the best person to respond because I'm not exactly left and my view of the military is generally positive, but I feel like we're imposing the wrong burden on our military if we expect those officials to stand up for democracy when the other normal checks and balances aren't worki...

Dude, I would love to see us fix the problems in South Sudan and Syria, and in Kashmir, and in Yemen, and in Crimea, and the list goes on and on. The problem is, we really need a new system for international peacekeeping. And we're *really* bad, as a nation, at doing peacekeeping. We're miles ahead ...

In all fairness, our military has already saved us once from fascists taking over our country. And when the high ranking generals right insightful articles about the importance f understanding other cultures, acting in a fashion that is agreeable with them, upholding commitments to equality? Well, t...

Whack your libertarian friends in the head with a trout. They deserve it. I used to be one, I would know. What what I can tell, the pros of single-payer is that it cuts out the middle-man of insurance. We all pay into it as taxpayers, and when we go to the doctor, the doctor bills the government age...

Well, dammit. Maybe I should have tried harder then.

My ideal solution, I guess, would be to suspend the use of force by the IDF, Hamas and Palestinian Authority, institute international(and multi-ethnic and national) peacekeepers, swamp the region with human rights observers, and force all sides to sit down and figure out how they can peacefully live...

Ithink, to my eternal shame, I drove angel off with a rather misogynistic and homophobic personal attack. I don't think her and the Module got along either, but I really think it was my bullshit that drove her off. I'm kinda sorry about that.