Kahomono - Still Lucky After All These Years

Random musings on whatever catches my attention that day

David F

MKD Out

Hometown favorite Mrs. Kasha Davis was eliminated in last night's RuPaul's Drag Race.  I could tell she was in trouble from the opening of the challenge production ("The DESPY Awards"), and no redemption was coming. This feels like seeing your home team miss the playoffs…

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David F

God, Ultimate Alpha Male

In a new book, Alpha God: The Psychology of Religious Violence and Oppression, Hector A. Garcia explores the similarities between the ideas of God in the Abrahamic religions, and the mechanisms primate communities in general use to establish a social dominance hierarchy. It should come as…

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David F

Ingress Leveling and Badges (long)

In the first and second installments of this series I talked about all the operations players can perform in this game, and this final installment will give some details of how players move up through the sixteen levels of the game. Player Level Requirements All…

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David F

Ted Cruz Will Sign Up for Obamacare

Oh, David, you are saying in your head, you should try to make your jokes more believable. Nobody is going to buy this one. Well, I do make my jokes more believable.  The problem with fiction, as Tom Clancy pointed out, is that fiction has…

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