A lot of it comes down to personal responsibility. We live in one of this city’s two 1%er suburbs. This is the one with more conspicuous consumption. The other has BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus dealership… (View Post)

See, this is why I like Aerie. Yes, Edwin is a more powerful mage, better than CHARNAME can be, the best playable mage in the game. But Aerie is, in my experience, a better spell caster because of he… (View Post)

The question of freedom is fairly simple, at least to this libertarian. Maximum personal freedom, without infringing on another’s inalienable rights, provided you accept maximum personal responsibili… (View Post)

At this point, it’s almost tooeasy to talk about it. Ocular melanoma is a weird disease. There really aren’t stages. Either it is confined to the eye, or cells into the blood stream and grow in the l… (View Post)

Five years ago today I got the worst news of my life: I was diagnosed with ocular melanoma, a rare form of cancer that has no cure. A biopsy revealed I had the aggressive, deadly form. That meant my … (View Post)