Hopefully in six weeks I will be able to claim that they worked well. With so many good new players studying standard strategy and counterstrategy, I’m thinking that the best way to thwart them is to make some plays that, while theoretically a little suboptimum, are so different from what they are used to that [...]

Now we all know that one of the main reasons the authorities quickly identified them is that they reacted abnormally to the blast. I guess they wanted to show how smart they are. Even if it meant that future terrorists will now certainly not make that same mistake.

Why do people make a big deal about any of it? It’s totally insignificant to any president or ex president. Money will never be an issue in any way shape or form.

Now he can conceivably be found Not Guilty by reason of insanity and after years in a mental hospital, get out and possibly kill again. And this risk was taken to achieve what.? To try for a punishment that is illegal in most countries and many states? The only good justification for the death penalty [...]

I think it is sort of unfortunate that the capture of Christopher Dorner can be traced back to a phone call from one of the two people he tied up. It is true that if she had not made that phone call many more might have died. Then again one fewer might have. In any [...]

They have some things in common. The public is upset that they cheat to help them succeed. And that they portray themselves as somebody they are not. But because the public also gets some upsides from them (entertainment, cheap labor) they are often willing to be lenient. Except that these cheaters are not actually as [...]

1. Have easily accessible alarm buttons in every classroom. If they are pushed all hell breaks loose inside and outside the school. Sirens, lights, whatever. Plus they are connected to police. 2. Since some with murderous fantasies have moments of lucidy and might seek help if they could do so without repercussion, that type of [...]

Machine guns can kill lots of people but not if those peole are riding around in Abrams tanks. Yet that is the excuse some people use to justify these weapons being allowed in private hands. They are supposed to protect us from a tyrannical government that has the army on their side. What morons.

Shouldt hisguy be treated like a regular criminal? He commited murders knowing he would be caught and he was diagnosed as a schizophrenic. I’m not saying he shouldn’t be locked up or even executed. I just think it is ridiculous that a separate category exists for delusional people who don’t know right from wrong but [...]

I think Repubublicans are barking up the wrong tree when they get so upset about the word “redistribute”. The fact is that they are almost as much in favor of redistribution as Democrats are. They only difference of opinion between the two parties is how much to redistribute and from whom to whom. Obviously the [...]