I haven’t been by DragonCon for a few years (need to fix that), but one of the fun aspects, other than seeing my favorite authors, and the concerts, was all the girls dressed up as their favorite characters (and a few original ones, like a zombie Strawberry Shortcake). Lots of people go out of their way to create utterly fantastic costumes, and the women who do so are usually well worth looking at [https://www.google.com/search?q=dragoncon+2016&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwibtoX069vPAhVi…
A fine figure above… and a little Denise Milani: And a little bit of cosplay:…
Free Northerner has some interesting thoughts [http://freenortherner.com/2016/10/14/chronic-kinglessness/] on how today, nobody has power: > This is the secret of politics and modern society: nobody is in charge, no one has power, and nobody is running the show: not the people, not the corporations, not the politicians, not the bureaucrats, not the courts, not the military, not the journalists, not the bankers, not the white male patriarchs, not the SJW’s, not the Jews, not Davos, not the Bild…
Before we get into the rest of this discussion, watch these two videos. Ignore the obvious checkbox demographics, because these two ads make a very clever point – the same words, delivered in different contexts, can mean something completely different. These, among other things, makes clear the importance of “frame”, by the way. Even if you wrote out these scenes, completely stripped out the body language, the intonation, and simply described the setting and who was speaking, the differences in…
I discovered this statement by Charlie Daniels [http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/charlie-daniels/charlie-daniels-what-hell-has-happened-our-country] courtesy of Peter Grant [https://bayourenaissanceman.blogspot.com/2016/10/charlie-daniels-lays-it-on-line.html] . > Any conversation about what is wrong in America usually starts and ends with scathing criticism of the men and women we send to the National and State Capitols to represent us and handle the business of running our nation. And while…