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Review: Dreamlike ’11-11: Memories Untold’ Makes the Costs of War Real

“War is hell”, or so the common refrain goes, but in video games that’s most often used as the launch pad for gun-toting action epics with countless awe-inspiring set-pieces, populated by ... read more

11-11: Memories Retold Review

Whichever way you look at it, 11-11: Memories Untold is ... the end of WWI makes this a particularly timely release, but it's far more than a glorified anniversary project. Unflinching writing that ho... read more

Is this political karma? Cost of living and the GST

Three quarters of people believe that the cost of living is getting worse ... But with a CPI of just 1.5 per cent over the 12 months to September, compared to an increase in real wages of 2.3 per cent ... read more

Scientists are from Mars, the public is from Earth

The American Geophysical Union blog has a link up to a very interesting table, and I feel strongly enough about this topic that I want to share it with you. It’s a list of words scientists use when wr... read more

Death of America’s Common Man

The most cursory monitoring of what they do and say – and, equally, what they don’t do and say – makes that manifestly clear. Personal acquaintance with those elites confirms it. It is a fair generali... read more

Confederates in the statehouse [Updated w/apology]

But McDonnell's proclamation makes no attempt to acknowledge, in any way, the institution of slavery, or the many thousands of African Americans for whom the war brought freedom. Asked to explain why ... read more

Living Out the Day: The Moviegoer Turns Fifty

Many of us also happened to be terribly earnest, and Catch-22, with its indictment of war and solicitude of the individual ... Unlike Bellow’s characters, however, Binx makes good on his threats to st... read more

The resources war could cost us dearly

This war could cost the national income dearly ... certainly not the majors who have the lowest cost structure. There now is a very real danger that, as they prepare to cannibalise themselves, they wi... read more

Source: Obama to fast track southern portion of Keystone XL Pipeline

President Barack Obama plans to announce in Cushing, Oklahoma, on Thursday that his administration will expedite the permit for the southern half of the Keystone XL pipeline, a source familiar with th... read more

Another Dangerous Rush to Judgment in Syria

Again, we see the troubling pattern of verdict first, investigation later, even when that behavior can lead to a dangerous war escalation and many more deaths. Before a careful evaluation of the evide... read more

Texas: falling over the cliff of DOOM

I simply cannot understand how Texas manages to exist day after day. The rampant insanity of the government in that state makes it seem likely that Texas will simply fly off the face of the Earth and ... read more