Chance Litton

Codification of the Principles of War by national military authorities is a relatively recent phenomenon.  Prior to the last centuries, when an author referred to such Principles, he intended to inspire the reader to think about broad, largely undefined but implicitly understood tenets that should provide general guidance to military doctrine and strategy.  As the [...]

I found this short metaphor to be very interesting:

Suppose that every day, ten men go out for beer and the bill for all ten comes to $100.  If they paid their bill the way we pay our taxes, it would go something like this:
                
               The first four men (the poorest) would pay nothing.
               The fifth would pay [...]

I get irritated watching Fox News; partially because of their conservative bias, but mostly because of their extreme sensationalism.  If there is a car chase or a pseudo-celebrity meltdown happening somewhere in the country, you know you’ll be able to see it on Fox.  During the Republican Convention last night they did not even bother to show [...]

Note for new readers: due to my “Revolution in Thinking” brought on primarily by Ron Paul’s The Revolution: A Manifesto, my opinions on this subject are in flux.  I still think that the Empire is realizable for America as a nation with a changing government, but I now believe that an Empire such as the one [...]

This is a mass e-mail I received from a well-meaning friend and my response follows. I’m sure he received it from another friend who received it from another. If we could trace it all the way back to its origin, we would find either an angry little man living in his mother’s basement scouring the [...]

Roleplaying games on the PC have come a long way.  The first one I played on my parents’ old Apple IIC was called “Zork”.  It didn’t have any pictures or sound, just a mysterious story and enough interactivity to let you feel like you were the main character in a strange world.  The Ultima series [...]

Several years ago, while I was in college and before I had the wisdom to avoid doing so, I was involved in a political “debate” on an online forum.  For those of you have never done this please allow me to describe to you why you should continue not doing this.  Like most political debates, [...]

Here is the video of a speech I gave at Toastmasters on Democracy.  It starts out a little rough when I forget something, but I think it rolls pretty nicely at the end.  Below is the full text with some stuff I had to cut out for time.  Feel free to leave comments on either the presentation or the [...]

The Caped Decider

So I just got back from the extravaganza that is Batman: The Dark Knight.  Great movie: creepy villain (even without the whole actor killed by his character thing); interesting plot twists; strong themes.  I couldn’t help but wonder, though, if anyone else took away the same message that I did.
We have our caped crusader and hero [...]