Thalasar Ventures

Archive for October, 2006

Michael J. Fox, Stem Cells and Science

I have been watching the right side of the blogosphere with a great deal of amusement and not a little bit of anger over the ad Michael J. Fox has done for Claire McCaskill in Missouri. Part of the problem is that most Americans have NO idea how basic science and scientific research is done. As a result we see people consistently parade around the idea, “that if embroynic stem cell have any value, private industry would be working with them.”

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Iraq – A True Hobbesian State

On this blog I have mostly devoted myself to Thalasar web projects than I do talking about politics. However I was struck by a recent article in The Atlantic on withdrawl from Iraq.

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BSG, DDO, Backups, Earlymiser – Talking with Dameron

Brian (11:59 AM) :
We should start raiding the Restless Isles chests
dameron (11:59 AM) :
we should do ghola fan with the drow babies
dameron (12:00 PM) :
i have an idea that we might just waltz through it, tener, darlaa ecole and tahan
Brian (12:01 PM) :
Ok – I need you to begin beta testing earlymiser.com
Brian (12:01 PM) :
http://earlymiser.blogspot.com/
dameron (12:01 PM) :

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Early Miser Beta Launch

Ok – it took two month later than I would have liked but we Early Miser – Save Early, Save Often is up and running.

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Sometimes a Cylon is just a Cylon.

Rarely do I comment on articles appearing in Slate but Spencer Ackerman’s article about Battlestar Galactica supporting the Iraq insurgency is simply too much to let pass. Part of the problem is that the Iraq war comparison is so frakking obvious a high school freshman could make the analog – this is supposed to be insightful? And because it’s so obvious, I am sure the writers have thought about it. Once you dig a little deeper, it’s pretty obvious that Spencer is off (other than the obvious. Yes there is a war in the show and yes it has an insurgency.)

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We are all Goldwater Democrats Now

This weekend I happened to catch the HBO documentary, Mr. Conservative. To tell you the truth I didn’t know much about Barry Goldwater other than the typical way he is lauded for launching the modern conservative movement with his failed presidential run in 1964.

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