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This whole mess started because we haven't been doing #1 when it comes to immigration.

It never ceases to amaze me how poorly catechized the majority of cradle Catholics are. I don't intend this to be directed at you, but it's a standing joke among traditionalist Cat…

Around 1994, when I was a nerdy, homeschooled 8th grader teaching myself coding I came up with something I was inordinately proud of. I had gotten a book on PowerPC assembly so usi…

Yes! I was looking for this comment. Maybe because I didn't grow up with the metric system, but 60 feels like a much "rounder" number to me than 50.

I graduated high school in 2000. I knew 2 kids in that school with pagers, and the only reason I paged them was to buy weed...

Hell Yeah!!

I see your extended response now. Well, I'm happy to do some ironclad moralization.

Well, whether or not fatherlessness is the actual cause (and I believe there is abundant evidence that it is), it seems very likely that partially rewinding the societal changes th…

"threatens neocons on their unipolar powertrip"? I haven't noticed that the primary opposition to nuclear power is from the right...

Wow, you don't have very many windows.

When I worked at one of the tech giants that develops a certain suite of office apps, the C++ class they used to model URLs in the cross platform layer had a flaw around escaped ch…

Surely you need to provide some details to justify such an accusation.

So if 5% of extra-legal searches result in dirt, then extra-legal searches are worth it?

I agree somewhat. Also, it's not always clear who the most legitimate heirs are in these cases. For example, why the Egyptian government and not, say, the Coptic Church? I don't ha…

I must admit, I don't know what games are out there these days, but I want an adventure game like the original King's Quest, Space Quest, Hero's Quest, etc. but with modern graphic…

How can it be a "crazy idea" to leave what you describe in your first 2 paragraphs? Crazy just economically?

Some of those buildings remind me of The Objective Room in "That Hideous Strength." "They suggested some kind of pattern. Their peculiar ugliness consisted in the very fact that th…

The first app I opened up was ResEdit; the jack-in-the-box gave me a big wave of nostalgia... But yeah, it's hard to separate fond memories of youth from the changes in computing. …

Sigh, this makes me realize how much I loved computers when I was a kid (1990s) and how much I hate them now.