Archive for May, 2011

08 May 2011

It Won’t Rain For You

I didn’t listen to much music when I was a kid. I had some singles on 45, like “We Are the World” and Weird Al’s “Eat It.” But it wasn’t until I was thirteen that music really struck a chord with me. A friend of mine told me to get Nirvana’s Nevermind and GNR Lies [...]

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07 May 2011

Good Game Stars

I signed on to PokerStars today to convert my remaining Frequent Player Points to cash. Having purchased a $4k Supernova bonus shortly before Stars closed shop to US players, I only had a few hundred dollars worth of FPPs to convert. When I opened the cashier, I was surprised to see almost a thousand dollars [...]

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06 May 2011

Patriotism Is A Character Flaw

“USA! USA! USA!” the crowds chanted outside the White House. “USA! USA! USA!” the crowds chanted at the ballpark. What few of these people realize is that this feeling they have coursing through their veins as they shout their brains out – that’s the feeling that inspired the murder of everyone in the World Trade [...]

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02 May 2011

Bin Laden Is Dead

Can we focus on something important now, like explicitly legalizing online poker? To be honest, I find it hard to care about world politics and missions of vengeance when U.S. domestic policy is so embarrassingly hypocritical.
Speaking of embarrassing, I wrote a little piece about Mason Malmuth’s recent behavior on his internet forum: http://www.freeassn.com/drupal/node/32
Yesterday was my [...]

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