Rome

I believe that Rome is a truly excellent setting for Role-Playing. Why?

No police force.
Brutal laws that often involve death, but are reasonably understandable.
Bribery works like a charm.
A successful politician's career has no end of violence.
There's no law against carrying weaponry on your person.

It's like a Role-Playing setting already, but better fleshed out, and with more realistic avenues for advancement than, "I killed 2.700 orcs. Now I have a legion of followers who flocked to me for some reason."

Won't Somebody Please Think Of The Children!

It seems like children are surrounded by corrupting influences: video games, movies, television news, and drugs. If only they would go to an opera, or read a novel, then they might turn out all right.

But it turns out that plays and novels are corrupting influences, too. When they first became popular, moralizing critics pointed out, accurately, that they prominently featured violence, infidelity, anti-religious themes, and sass-talk.

In fact, it seems that everything since the stone axe has been bad for humanity:

• Dancing
• Music
• Playing Cards
• Every Religion (Just ask a fanatic of a different religion)
• Gender
• Dice
• Zippers
• Novels
  
• Plays
• Anything that features Magic of any kind (I assume there is an exception for the Bible)
• Role-Playing Games
• Trading Card Games
  
• Video Games
• Pornography (Interesting piece of trivia: Americans spend as much on Pornography as they do on international foreign aid)
  
• Sports
• Communism
• Industrialism
• Capitalism

The strange things about all this, is that the same people who decry these things seem to have little time to attack the things that cause direct harm and deprivation (War, pollution, etc.)

Reincarnation

A while ago, Ken Jennings pointed out that if Reincarnation is real, then it seems possible that you would be the reincarnation of whoever died at the time of your conception. With a share of guessing and laziness, I have determined that I am the reincarnation of Michel Foucault.

Too bad. I don't like anyone that can be described as "Modernist" or "Post-Modernist". C'est la Vie.