Recent content by DrFausty

Sort of depends on where you're interviewing - some employers don't automatically rule out good candidates if they don't fit the vanilla mold of white, straight, conservative conventionality. Indeed, the hiring decision in many states cannot, legally, be made on the basis of sexual orientation -...

Thanks for the correction, I don't think I made it to the end of the film and now I've been passing misinformation as a result. Rather impressive that the film stayed to the original Ellison story ending - glad to hear. Fausty

A selected few from our family photo albums (http://www.exitpointstallions.com)

I hadn't noticed that there was an ongoing discussion resulting from this post, and thus had not even read this detailed response to which I am responding. Nor, alas, I did I see the next "I'm taking my toys and going home" post which, apparently, I earned by summarizing points made in the...

The name of the canine character in the original Harlan Ellison short story, "A Boy and His Dog," on which the second-rate 80s film is based, is "Blood" actually - not "Dogmeat." Blood is not only a strong melee fighter in Harlan's apocryphal story, he's also telepathic. Ironically, in the story...

It's worth remembering that a great portion of the "controversy" and "consensus there is a problem" is completely manufactured by the Canadian-flavor media oligarchy lap dogs. Dr. Geist has done an excellent job of showing, in detail, one example of how this spinning of the narrative results in...

I actually agree re the "too wordy" criticism - the above post is more of a rant than a well-edited work product. Basically I see this same "story" of the poor artist being denied food for his starving children because of those "evil pirates" - the same story, it pops up all over the place. And...

I'm sorry, this is sloppy economic analysis, sloppy legal analysis, and sloppy logic. First, purchasing a "pirated" game is not "illegal" - while the RIAA/MPAA have had a field day talking about "illegal filesharing" and thus managed to poison the well of accurate understanding of...