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by Mediancat
Sat Apr 21, 2012 12:24 pm
Forum: General World History
Topic: What if the American revolution failed?
Replies: 19
Views: 323

Robert Sobel's For Want of a Nail (or via: amazon.co.uk) is a book-length alternate history about exactly this - except, unlike most althists, it's written as a textbook, not a novel. Highly recommended.

Rob
by Mediancat
Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:59 am
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: David Cameron ---Who?---in America
Replies: 29
Views: 309

I knew he was here, but only because I'm watching the NCAA Tournament; both men were in attendance at the first game, yesterday evening.

Rob
by Mediancat
Sun Feb 19, 2012 3:57 am
Forum: Church/State Separation
Topic: Cranston Votes Not to Appeal Prayer Banner Case
Replies: 4
Views: 152

The good guys win one, for once.

Rob
by Mediancat
Tue Feb 14, 2012 12:09 am
Forum: Pseudoscience
Topic: Do pumas, giant feral cats and mystery marsupials stalk the Australian outback?
Replies: 2
Views: 68

I'm inclined to think not, though cryptozoology is the one pseudoscience that strays at times into genuine science.

Rob
by Mediancat
Sun Feb 05, 2012 8:56 pm
Forum: General World History
Topic: Politicians/Presidents with facial hair.
Replies: 6
Views: 141

I think the last person to run for president as a major candidate with facial hair was Thomas Dewey.

Rob
by Mediancat
Tue Jan 17, 2012 8:49 pm
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: Global warming "consensus" collapsing.
Replies: 77
Views: 1209

Upon further review, this thread is staying locked.

Rob
by Mediancat
Thu Jan 12, 2012 3:19 pm
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: U.S. Redefines Rape Laws
Replies: 236
Views: 2044

Locked pending review and cleanup.

Rob
by Mediancat
Wed Dec 28, 2011 1:52 pm
Forum: Republican Primaries/US Presidential Elections
Topic: Republicans fail to qualify for VA primary
Replies: 39
Views: 554

Two threads on the Republican primaries in Virginia have now been merged. The thread was also renamed to make the subject matter clear and to possibly avoid any further duplicates.

What mod hath joined, let no one put asunder.

Rob aka Mediancat
by Mediancat
Thu Dec 22, 2011 3:05 am
Forum: General World History
Topic: When/where would you travel to in history and why?
Replies: 50
Views: 657

New York World's Fair, 1939. The shadows were on the horizon, yet it was a moment of nearly unbridled optimism about the future. I would like to have been there, to experience that.

Rob
by Mediancat
Wed Dec 14, 2011 4:35 pm
Forum: Political Discussions
Topic: The war profiteers formerly known as Blackwater
Replies: 42
Views: 505

Friendly request from your friendly neighborhood moderator:

The discussion about the use of "retarded" would be a derail for this thread; it would, however, work nicely as a separate thread -- perhaps in MD?

Rob aka Mediancat
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