My Email is Down
My email has been down for several days now and I have no idea when it will come up again. While I doubt anybody has sent me anything truly important (job offers), and those who would have sent me that kind of important thing aren't reading this site (job offers), I thought I should get this out there. It's beginning to seriously annoy me because I don't know what's going on or when it will clear up.
Ideological Axes
One of the fun, if futile, things to do is to try to arrange the political landscape along varying axes, with "Liberal/Conservative" and "Libertarian/Populist" being two popular ones. There are many others I've seen, too, each with a bit of truth.
I'd like to propose for your own personal amusement this one: Tell a person to imagine themselves in the Medieval period of knights and kings. Do they automatically assume they are a knight or better, or do they at least admit the possibility (indeed the probability) that they are a serf?