Comments for Neko Bijin's Serious Blog http://nekobijin.wordpress.com A Serious Blog Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:46:47 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 Comment on Mexico Delenda Est by Neko_Bijin http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/mexico-delenda-est/#comment-736 Neko_Bijin Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:46:47 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1835#comment-736 Well, you can imagine a collapse of the state would send perhaps 50 million refugees into California, who would eventually be granted voting status and then push a referendum for secession from the US. Or at the very least dilute the national bloodline to an unacceptable degree. Just thinking out loud here. There's reason to worry about neighbors both too strong and too weak. We like our neighbors just weak enough--like Canada. Well, you can imagine a collapse of the state would send perhaps 50 million refugees into California, who would eventually be granted voting status and then push a referendum for secession from the US. Or at the very least dilute the national bloodline to an unacceptable degree. Just thinking out loud here.

There’s reason to worry about neighbors both too strong and too weak. We like our neighbors just weak enough–like Canada.

]]> Comment on Mexico Delenda Est by Gabe http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/mexico-delenda-est/#comment-735 Gabe Thu, 12 Nov 2009 21:22:24 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1835#comment-735 Wait, slow down. I was just getting used to all the books predicting that Mexico will infiltrate, break off, and re-absorb the entire Southwest. Are we to fear and hate Mexico because they will grow more powerful, or are we to fear and hate Mexico because they're falling apart? What's my motivation in this scene? Wait, slow down. I was just getting used to all the books predicting that Mexico will infiltrate, break off, and re-absorb the entire Southwest. Are we to fear and hate Mexico because they will grow more powerful, or are we to fear and hate Mexico because they’re falling apart? What’s my motivation in this scene?

]]> Comment on Armistice Day by Neko_Bijin http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/armistice-day/#comment-734 Neko_Bijin Thu, 12 Nov 2009 14:15:16 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1830#comment-734 If they were army officers or Ukrainians then yes, certainly, otherwise I couldn't say. If they were army officers or Ukrainians then yes, certainly, otherwise I couldn’t say.

]]> Comment on Armistice Day by Gabe http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/armistice-day/#comment-733 Gabe Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:48:03 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1830#comment-733 I always heard that Papa Joe shot all the engineers until suddenly one day his trains wouldn't run. I always heard that Papa Joe shot all the engineers until suddenly one day his trains wouldn’t run.

]]> Comment on First the Fall of Rome, now this? by Gabriel http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/first-the-fall-of-rome-now-this/#comment-731 Gabriel Tue, 10 Nov 2009 23:05:21 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1826#comment-731 "Ideals are of the Devil." ~M. Luther ;-) “Ideals are of the Devil.” ~M. Luther ;-)

]]> Comment on The Sunset of Good Taste by Gabe http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-sunset-of-good-taste/#comment-726 Gabe Wed, 28 Oct 2009 13:43:35 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1797#comment-726 The Shortpacked! web comic actually beat out Penny Arcade by several months, with one of the characters writing a Twilightesque fanfic series about how mummies only wrap themselves with bandages because they're far too beautiful for the mortal eye. Alas, I was too lazy to sort through several months of web comics to find it. Think of all that clicking! The Shortpacked! web comic actually beat out Penny Arcade by several months, with one of the characters writing a Twilightesque fanfic series about how mummies only wrap themselves with bandages because they’re far too beautiful for the mortal eye.

Alas, I was too lazy to sort through several months of web comics to find it. Think of all that clicking!

]]> Comment on The Sunset of Good Taste by Neko_Bijin http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-sunset-of-good-taste/#comment-725 Neko_Bijin Wed, 28 Oct 2009 12:43:15 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1797#comment-725 Scooped again. Though I did beat the NYPost in comparing Medicare to Clunkers. Scooped again. Though I did beat the NYPost in comparing Medicare to Clunkers.

]]> Comment on The Sunset of Good Taste by Gabriel http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/the-sunset-of-good-taste/#comment-724 Gabriel Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:00:06 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1797#comment-724 http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/ http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/10/12/

]]> Comment on Unkillable Monsters by Neko_Bijin http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/10/22/unkillable-monsters/#comment-721 Neko_Bijin Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:50:31 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1768#comment-721 Maybe there's a stepladder from horror to YA fiction to comic books to mainstream film heart-throb, and Leprechauns and Mermaids are on the way up. Maybe there’s a stepladder from horror to YA fiction to comic books to mainstream film heart-throb, and Leprechauns and Mermaids are on the way up.

]]> Comment on R. Crumb does Genesis by Gabe http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/2009/10/21/r-crumb-does-genesis/#comment-720 Gabe Thu, 22 Oct 2009 18:46:05 +0000 http://nekobijin.wordpress.com/?p=1761#comment-720 In the Hebrew, Samuel was one book and Kings was one book. In the Septuagint and later the Vulgate, Samuel & Kings were divvied up into I-IV Kings like you said. (There was an old medieval Bible in Boston's MFA that had them like that.) I don't know when they were put into the modern form... certainly by the KJV. Now I'm curious about how Luther's Bible did it. In the Hebrew, Samuel was one book and Kings was one book. In the Septuagint and later the Vulgate, Samuel & Kings were divvied up into I-IV Kings like you said. (There was an old medieval Bible in Boston’s MFA that had them like that.) I don’t know when they were put into the modern form… certainly by the KJV. Now I’m curious about how Luther’s Bible did it.

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