A blog about societal, cultural, and civilizational collapse, and how to stave it off or survive it. Named after the legendary character "Crazy Eddie" in Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle's "The Mote in God's Eye." Expect news and views about culture, politics, economics, technology, and science fiction.
Wednesday, March 23, 2011
Today's Motie News from Detroit: Video report on Census
I know I promised you all an update on the Census last night; instead, I decided to play a game of Civilization with my wife. (I can't be all SRS BZNS all the time). I achieved a space race victory in 1983. If humans had done that in real life, we'd have already reached Alpha Centauri by now. For my troubles, I received a ranking of "Ivan the Terrible"--probably the worst of the competent leaders listed in the game. That's what I get for playing on Chieftain.
Enough about losing myself in fantasy. Time to snap back to reality. Oh there goes gravity...
The Detroit Free Press has a series of articles on the subject (scroll down and look at all the latest links; even I find the number amazing), that I'll get around to analyzing all the rest of this week. Right now, I don't have the time to do even one of them justice. I'll be lazy and let the WXYZ do the talking for me. This is also a test of how video embeding works here. Here goes nothing.
Looks like I managed to kill two birds with that stone. Time to go to work.
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