S. Charles Balazs

scbalazs on [Civ of the Week] Carthage - http://www.reddit.com/r...

scbalazs on What features from the older Civ games would you have liked in the newest instalment? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Saw this driving home yesterday. Loved it. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

TIL: After 4 drunk/stoned punks harrased the siberian tiger at the San Francisco zoo, the tiger escaped, hunted them down, killed one and injuried 2 others - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Funding the Boston victims medical bills. Shouldn't this just be a given in society? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Why Dictators Don’t Like Jokes -- Pro-democracy activists around the world are discovering that humor is one of the most powerful weapons in the fight against authoritarianism - http://www.reddit.com/r...

DAE think it's a little excessive that an entire city is being shut down and the National Guard is being deployed on home soil just for one 19 year old? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

10 Things Legalized Gay Marriage Could Pay For - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Westboro baptist church plans to protest at the funeral of the Boston bombing - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Why isn't there a Kickstarter for Scientific Research? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Santa Fe officials on Tuesday urged county clerks to provide same-sex couples with marriage licenses, claiming that same-sex marriage was legal in New Mexico. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

What do socialists think about privately-owned cooperatives and credit unions? - http://www.reddit.com/r...

My wife got me this man crate, for my real life cake day! - http://www.reddit.com/r...

TIL that the Smurfs were essentially communists. They all had "defined roles", they all "dresse[d] alike", and they had no economy. Also the Smurfs nemesis, Gargamel, represented capitalism with his desire to "exploit the Smurfs". - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Noam Chomsky points out an interesting side effect of massive student debt that I never considered before. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Pope Francis washes feet of Muslims in unprecedented Easter rite: Pope Francis washed the feet of 12 young offenders including two girls and two Muslims at a Rome prison in an unprecedented version of an ancient Easter ritual, seen as part of efforts to bring the Church closer to those in need. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Weeping Angels Continuity issue "Blink" - http://www.reddit.com/r...

TIL Sweden is so good at recycling, it has run out of garbage and now must import garbage from Norway to fuel its energy programs - http://www.reddit.com/r...

After Calling Sandy Aid Wasteful, Ted Cruz Asks For All Available Resources for Texas - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Certainly North Korea no longer merits much respect among ordinary Chinese, who have taken to insulting Kim Jong-un as "Fatty Kim" or "Fatty the Third", in reference to his father and grandfather, on the Chinese internet. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

How Big Corporations Are Unpatriotic - "Many giant profitable U.S. corporations are increasingly abandoning America while draining it at the same time." - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Guy buys house in front of the Westboro Baptist Church and paints it in the colors of the Pride flag - 'Equality House' will be used for LGBT rights - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Joss Whedon's "I write..." I want this framed and put on my wall. - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Deep-fried bacon-wrapped burger :) - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Motion Induced Blindness - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Dying veteran writes to Bush and Cheney: "I want to make it clear that I, and hundreds of thousands of my fellow veterans, along with millions of my fellow citizens, along with hundreds of millions more in Iraq and the Middle East, know fully who you are and what you have done." - http://www.reddit.com/r...

The Risk of Autism Is Not Increased by "Too Many Vaccines Too Soon" -Journal of Pediatrics - http://www.reddit.com/r...

scbalazs on [Civ of the Week] Inca - http://www.reddit.com/r...

Parking in Los Angeles (x-post r/losangeles) - http://www.reddit.com/r...

TIL there is a waterfall in Minnesota called the Devil's Kettle that empties half its contents into a sinkhole. The outlet has yet to be found. - http://www.reddit.com/r...