Octopodial Chrome

The Monkeysphere is a most amusing article. Caution: contains crude language; kids (and adults of delicate sensibilities) stay home.

Ben Shapiro points out that while Bush gets the rep for being inarticulate, Kerry’s no slouch on that score either. The story’s much the same with Dan Quayle vs. John Edwards: Quayle had much more experience than Edwards has, but he got the rep as a young rube whilst Edwards needn’t worry. It must be nice to run for office with the backing of the news media.

Stephen Bloch (aka John Elys) has written the fine What the SCA is Not, which looks at re-enactment, living history, re-creation and experimental archæology, and whether or not the Society for Creative Anachronism meets the definitions.

For my own part, I’d say that it’s definitely not re-enactment or living history (although sometimes some people manage a bit of the latter), can be good re-creation and at its best can be experimental archæology.