Pawnderings on Games

The President rattled some more sabers against Iran yesterday in a speech before the American Legion. Glenn Greenwald has a long post today...

An excellent laying of the blame where it truly belongs: http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2007/08/more-grit-hilzo.html#t...

Sad to say, the "Flour Terrorist" story was right here in Connecticut, too. John Cole of Balloon Juice has an excellent summary h...

About 25 years ago I remember backgammon had a surge in popularity. It seemed like everybody had a leather-bound travel case with them. The ...

Well, this year I was able to pop in to the WBC for a day, at least. I had a good time, if not a particularly successful one, at the con. I...

The Iraqi parliament has left for a month-long vacation, although it doesn't appear that they'll be particularly missed, as they...

During a visit to Jamaica last summer I was struck by how much of a game-playing culture it was -- of at least one game, anyway, dominoes. I...

Chess, similar to Go, is a tough game for the "gamer" to get into. By a "gamer" I mean the sort of person who likes game...

One of my more amusing past times is tracking down made-up quotes attributed to famous people. I happened to come across one today that sou...

Got my copy Saturday morning and started reading after lunch. Aside from one break I read until I was done. When I have some time, I plan to...

It isn't often boardgames make the news, but a rather big deal was made this week of checkers being "solved" by a computer pr...

A well-reasoned and provocative lessons learned: http://obsidianwings.blogs.com/obsidian_wings/2007/07/lessons-learned.html

As a member of the media, I'm disappointed in the coverage of government and politics recently. There's been a slow, downhill slide ...

One difficulty in writing a review for an ancient game that's no longer actively played, such as the ancient Roman game Latrunculi , is ...

The authors of the Constitution went through considerable effort to make sure the war-making power was vested in the legislative branch, rat...

Not that I'm superstitious, or anything like that. Not at all. Really.

There's really no currently accepted generic term for them (like RPGs , hex -and-counter wargames , CCGs , card-driven wargames , block ...

Wes Pruden , in the middle of mocking Bill Clinton's brassiness for talking about the Libby deal given his own 11 th -hour shenanigans...

My young daughter has the nickname of "parrot' because she has a habit of repeating the last thing that's been said within ears...

I wrapped up one of my two anti-Bush books I've been reading. Glenn Greenwald's A Tragic Legacy is definitely the quicker read. It...