My LiveJournal Trick-or-Treat Haul wickedthought goes trick-or-treating, dressed up as Gomez Addams. amanofhats tricks you! You get a block of wood. crapdaddy gives you 12 light blue coffee-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. fallentyrant gives you 16 tan banana-flavoured pieces of bubblegum. gobi gives you 14 light orange chocolate-flavoured pieces of taffy. judd_sonofbert gives you 15 red-orange…
While holding a staff of solid gold, the Pope says,"The global financial crisis is proof that the pursuit of money and success is pointless." In other words, "Stop spending money to invest in your future and start tithing to the Mother Church." Asshole. Story from the BBC.
The room is dark. No lights. I’ve lit candles. A soft, but disturbing, droning tone comes from my laptop in the corner. I begin by telling this story. It was 1981 and I was living in Ames, Iowa. I walked into Spencer’s Gifts with ten dollars in my pocket. On the shelf, I saw a…
I expected to be the only person in the theater. When I got in line to buy my ticket, I was surprised to hear the five people in front of me–three different groups–all ask for tickets to see the very same film. When the cashier asked me what I wanted to see, I said, "One…
It’s been a long time since I kept the tradition of running a Call of Cthulhu game on Halloween. I decided to re-up the tradition, but in spades. A four part story, each chapter in a different Era, all linked by a single element, starting on the first Friday in October, ending on Halloween night.…
(delivered via savageplanet ) > I’m against the $85,000,000,000.00 bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor> of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a We Deserve It Dividend.> To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bonafide> U.S. Citizens 18+. Our population is about 301,000,000 +/- counting> every man, woman and child. So 200,000,000 might…
They call it Proposition 8 in California.They call it Proposition 102 in Arizona. I call it "legalized gay bashing." If someone can make a non-religious argument against same-sex marriage, I’m willing to listen. Otherwise, keep your goddamn book out of my Constitution. Thanks to joemorf for the video. (He’s in there!)
Instead of reading what other people have to say about McCain and Obama, why not read what they have to say about themselves? Here’s McCain’s stance on the issues.Here’s Obama’s stance on the issues. This is what they want you to know. May as well read it. Read for yourself. Make up your own mind.…