Cav's Place

Initially meant to write something else today, but the direction a thread on the MobyGames forums ended up taking made me think about these issues yet again and, considering how hard it is to get myself to write non-personal posts anyway, I couldn’t miss the opportunity. Seriously, why do people believe they’re entitled to special […]

Noticed recently that the media over here was once again making a huge story out of the death of a person who had been dying for quite some time, and this made me get back to this question. I seem to recall stumbling into a reasonable amount of coverage back when his illness was discovered, […]

When I saw last night’s truce announcement, I definitely didn’t think it’ll be worth much, but have to say I was almost as surprised to hear of today’s events as I was on Tuesday, when this started. This is following the pattern of the Arab uprisings, albeit with a stronger backing from an existing political […]

Saw a BBC analysis today claiming that the recent use of chemical weapons, which is now accepted as fact even by the Syrian regime and its Russian and Iranian allies, lifted the crisis to such a high level that all sides, and the USA and Russia in particular, should be far more likely to put […]

An opinion piece called “Is Democracy Overrated?” was published on the BBC site and, while the author may not go as far as he should and may not emphasize the points he knows will prove particularly unpopular, I have to say that it’s a rather unexpectedly frank analysis at a time when such a debate […]