When Staging/pre-prod Is Broken

a darkened auditorium with 264 silent people in the seats. on the stage, me, sitting on a stool, lit by a spotlight, the only light in the theatre. i hold up a photo of my cat, 10 people applaud, two or three hold up photocopies of the same photo, the rest do nothing, watching, waiting. 

Remembering the officers lost in the Dallas shooting

Five officers were killed by at least one sniper near a peaceful protest in Dallas on Thursday night. They served the Dallas Police Department and the Dallas Area Rapid Transit agency. Here are their names and stories.

"Unfortunately, your review of my book doesn’t offer many reasons for optimism. It is a strange document—avuncular in places, but more generally sneering. I think it fair to say that one could watch an entire season of Downton Abbey on Ritalin and not detect a finer note of condescension than you manage for twenty pages running."

—Sam Harris, “The Marionette’s Lament: A Response to Dan Dennett”

That fact - that wars maximize a political leader's power - is a key reason they often crave war and why wars, under the Constitution, were supposed to be extremely difficult for presidents to start. As John Jay wrote in Federalist 4, "absolute monarchs will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for the purposes and objects merely personal" (that's also why the absurd contortions invoked by President Obama to fight a war in Libya not only in the absence of Congressional approval, but in the face of formal Congressional disapproval, belongs high on the list of his worst and likely most enduring civil liberties assaults).

more climbing! ❤

(via 3 Corrupt Ways Private Prisons Write Our Laws - Follow the Money #3 - YouTube)

Here is the scam of private prisons and why we have more people in prison then almost any other country in the world. #FollowTheMoney

Reading the spec to understand a bug

by uaiHebert

I'll just change this tunable

by Forge and SirKeldon