Let me give you an alternative view: if a man walks up to another man and calls him a f*ggot or a n*gger of a motherf*cker, etc., etc., to his face, there is nothing whatsoever morally wrong with punching him in the mouth as a response. In other words, "Did he deserve a beating? Yes, he did." There are people who deserve beating. Fighting isn't always wrong. Violence actually solves a lot of things.

John Hawkins

From something about one celebrity hitting another celebrity.

I don't much care about celebrities, but I agree that some people just need a good beating. Turn 'em polite right quick, I think.

Well, rather than getting couches for my living room, I got a desk and book shelves for my library upstairs. All pretty cherry wood with carved detailing. Right now I'm going for that Victorian England library. The kind that would belong to some explorer that's filled with random souvenirs from his travels (souvenirs yet to come). Here is the start of it.



I still need to add some pictures and paintings on the walls, and add the various accent pieces to it. I've got some old maps from fantasy video games. I want to frame those and put them up, since they have that old world feel to them.

I also want a bunch of steampunk accent pieces. I'm trying to walk a pretty fine line between traditional and fantasy.

The only other major thing I want to do up here is add a comfy chair and a little table so I can actually read in my library.

Oh, and redo the lights. My list of things I want to do to my house seems to only get longer as I actually get things done.

I found this at the Other McCain today. It comes originally from Shannon at Chicago Boyz.

The left doesn't actually have a developed system of thought regarding the economy. They can't actually explain why the real world political process will systematically make better decisions than the free-market. Instead, they simply point to any reversals in the real economy, regardless of cause, and then assert that in their imaginations, leftist politicians could have done better.

It's hard to argue against people's imaginations. You end up with a discussion much like two D&D geeks arguing over whether a dwarf with a +10 axe could take an elf with a vorpal sword.

I agree with McCain and Shannon. The dwarf wins.