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Comment on A related, but less useful graph by harveyj

harveyj — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 10:14:23 +0000

I hate to say it, ’cause Dodgers, but you should add Kirk Gibson to your graph.

Comment on A related, but less useful graph by harveyj

harveyj — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:51:01 +0000

The earlier post was inspired by the always awesome Joe Posnanski. http://joeposnanski.com/JoeBlog/2010/07/18/writing-off-tiger/

My thoughts on the topic boil down to:
* Tiger is probably still the best golfer on the planet.
* That might not be enough to pass Nicklaus.

One mildly cherrypicked stat from the article: The most majors anyone in history has won after age 35 was 4… by Jack Nicklaus. Tiger has had one of the best starts to a career of all time. His two-year drought has put him in the position of needing the best finish to a career of all time to set the record.

Comment on A related, but less useful graph by Aerion

Aerion — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 04:42:43 +0000

I understand that “laser show” is not technically appropriate in this context. But you know what? My graph has labeled axes, so suck on that.

Comment on Iran by Legion

Legion — Mon, 31 May 2010 19:33:24 +0000

http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=1852

Comment on Iran by zackbass

zackbass — Thu, 27 May 2010 15:55:14 +0000

Harvey, you’ve got a good point about the advantages of just threatening to make nukes, but I’m not sure I’m ready to accept that actually getting them would hurt Iran. I think they’re legitimately scared that a hawkish US administration might roll right in like in Iraq and their threatening only increases the chances of that. We’ve made it pretty clear that nuclear weapons will make us think twice about invading.

Comment on Iran by Legion

Legion — Thu, 27 May 2010 04:49:33 +0000

What are your thoughts regarding similarities with North Korea on this front?

I’ve always thought that their main goal has largely been posturing and the appearance of power, rather than lusting after the power proper. I’m not entirely clear what their goals are supposed to be, but I could conceive that it’s largely a way to keep the population’s attention focused on North Korean foreign policy rather than its infrastructure.

Summed up: North Korea does this insane shit to keep its subjugated population psyched about being North Korean and serving the state, possibly without further goals in mind.

Comment on Iran by Harvey

Harvey — Thu, 27 May 2010 03:36:28 +0000

OK, so since I don’t have anything informed to say on the premise, let me question your assumptions. It’s not clear to me that actually becoming a nuclear power is a good idea for Iran, compared to sabre rattling re: nukes. Pre-nukes, Iran basically has an instant, easy way to goad Israel and stir up public sentiment; they just have to crank up some centrifuges. Post-nukes, their defensive position is pretty much unchanged (neither Israel or Iran is going to nuke each other, and Iran will still lose a conventional war to the US), but their sabre-rattling options are much more limited. The populist pro-nuke sentiment will turn to populist use-nuke sentiment, but the ruling class won’t survive a nuclear exchange, so they’ll be trapped.

Comment on [Constitutional] Amendments by Legion

Legion — Fri, 21 May 2010 02:11:43 +0000

Of course, in CT, we know all about this amendment. Thank god, Senators Lieberman (WTF-CT) and Brown (R-MA) are supporting the Terrorist Expatriation Act which lets the government revoke your citizenship if you ever finance or give resources to any groups on a list defined by the Secretary of State. Progress!

Comment on Does it mean it’s shaped like a mushroom? by Aerion

Aerion — Fri, 14 May 2010 07:15:34 +0000

Not to be confused with “frungible”, meaning “legally usable as an implement in Frungy, the Sport of Kings.”

Comment on The Con-sti-tu-tion by nepharis

nepharis — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 05:06:31 +0000

PHONY PATRIOTISM IS JINGOISM