Haven_Monahan

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by Haven_Monahan 9y ago
"Consistency issues can usually be fixed with wizards." Yes, the old "well...a wizard did it" DeusExMagic-User. Sooo useful for the DM, especially if you are the sort who keeps tweaking the map, and have players puzzled
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
I mean that a school that started for the express purpose of training Puritan Congregationalist ministers, and had mandatory Protestant chapel until 1926, now has coed dormitories, an LGBT club, and Atheists at the Divinity College. Even fo
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
Sorry, we will have only binary & atom-thick appraisals of historic figures in the US today. John Calhoun == Bad; Grace Hopper == Good. And that's all you need to know. The ones doing the renaming have no independent convictions of
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
...who got his money from his parents and uncles. Moe Brown was also a quaker && robustly antislavery, but that did not stop him from bailing out his brothers during the war. Trying to extricate the triangle-trade money from the Bro
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
Brown as well. You really can't talk about the slave trade in colonial RI w/o mentioning John & Nick Brown. Of course, the brand names of these colleges are too valuable to dump.
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
In fairness to JCC, I'm sure he'd look at the sort of things that go on at Yale these days, and insist that all mention of his name be removed from anything on campus. The South, the South...God knows what shall become of her.
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
Time was, those were referred to as "pink-collar" jobs; probably b/c there was a preponderance of women doing them.
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
If nobody's brought it up, "Castle" by David Macaulay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castle_(book) (also made into a PBS program in the '80s) Very nice book; also he has ones about building Cathedra
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
As mentioned upthread & here, yes, the early Fieros did have a habit of catching fire. There were primarily two reasons for this: GM refused to budget for a new engine for the car-it never really wanted to have a two-seater outside the
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
I can respect them for their ability to control a classroom, to empathize with, and to motivate young children. I cannot in any meaningful way respect, the breadth, rigor or quality of undergraduate ed-major programs in the US. Graduates of
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
Citations, of course. Or are you simply of the Nicholas Garaufis school of thought; namely, if the test isn't perfect, it can't possibly be used as a hiring tool? After seeing what Judge G did to the FDNY training program, I'
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
Pretty Much Exactly That. Of course, you might want to go further, and ask why this hasn't happened. Why wouldn't some state or locality in the US demand that its teacher-training candidates have a BS in, say, nursing (for primary
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
A few hours of work...on the first day of use. How many more hours of engrossing touchpad driver jiggerypokery will any person need to do over the course of ownership before the cost of their wasted time adds up to the cost of a macbook?
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by Haven_Monahan 10y ago
This. This. THIS. Federally-backed student loans, undischargeable and given to all and sundry, to be spent wherever on whatever, is a gigantic short in the moral-hazard circuit. I would throw an actual party for any dictator in the US who w
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by Haven_Monahan 12y ago
Kevin's side of the story has been told by him, by Littman in 'The Fugitive Game' and by Eric Corley. Any reasonably broad-minded person who wants to see the law deal evenhandedly with the accused can find places in these acc