Recent content by Jack Uphill

I heard in '07 or so that the Coen brothers were directing the film adaptation, but nothing since then. I really hope they make this into a movie. It'll give a higher profile to AH.

Eh, I'll give it a shot. For a League team with good dynamics, I feel you have to have a mix of people that work well together and those that don't. They also should provide complimentary skills, but sometimes this can be fudged for someone that just rounds out the team. One female is usually...

Pfft, China's a 1/2 power. It's still America's best buddy, but China gets it's own rules and it's own infantry. China can only produce infantry and it depends on the territory they hold. And I believe those infantry can never march OUTSIDE of China, which makes China useless.

Would a Chinese historian be of any help in Foresight China? And I guess another factor is which side would they have aligned with: Nationalist or Communist?

I recall one of the plot points of Guns of the South was that the time machine they had taken was limited to a 150 year jump. So by1864, I think Jackson is already dead, right? The AWB men would either have procured a 150 year time machine earlier or gotten a time machine that doesn't have any...

I might be fuzzy on this, but there were arguments for slavery from an economic history perspective. Once the cotton gin was invented and the textiles industry began to take off the economic argument from slavery was a lot stronger. The fact is people across the world benefited from slavery in...

Don't most Indian Reservations still have some form of prohibition present? Perhaps an earlier Prohibition (way earlier) could help?

How were progressives involved with the case? Was Ferguson a progressive?

Lyndon Johnson was a teacher. Wilson is the only PhD president. And under Wilson's presidency over 4 million Americans died.

Hell, if the group gets organized and powerful enough, the FBI may approach him to see if he's willing to be a mole to dig out information on the organization.

Wait, what?

I think that this would punish the criminal's family and loved ones (yes, even Hitler's dog loved him) more than the criminal. A burial would usually be for them to have a moment of private bereavement and closure.

Read it before it gets Cohen'ized into an eccentric stylistic movie. I also Recommend Fatherland.

Eric Shinseki is a Vietnam Veteran and I believe the highest ranking Japanese-American officer in the US military. It also reminds me, once where I was correctly admonished for coming up with an ASB scenario where Bruce Lee survives his allergic reaction he had to a painkiller and decides to...

Damn Fallout 3 is biting off my 5 year old ideas! I was the one that speculated about Internment camps for Chinese and Chinese Americans. Okay, it's a bit different. Mine was actually just a town of descendants of US prison guards/MPs that escaped with a portion of internment prisoners. The...