I’m one of the Guests of Honor at RinCon, an Arizona game convention that takes place over Halloween weekend. I’ll be there with Houses of the Blooded as well as some special surprises. (Wait till you see the booth. I’ve got two words for you. Ven. Library.) I’ll also be running games and possibly testing…
(from Factcheck.org) Facts muddled in Mississippi McCain-Obama meeting. Summary McCain and Obama contradicted each other repeatedly during their first debate, and each volunteered some factual misstatements as well. Here’s how we sort them out: Obama said McCain adviser Henry Kissinger backs talks with Iran “without preconditions,” but McCain disputed that. In fact, Kissinger did recently…
(paraphrasing) McCain: "The talks are standing still. We should stop campaigning and focus on the economy." White House and Congress: "The talks are going good. We don’t need your help." Obama: "A President should be able to focus on more than one thing at a time." Wow. Is McCain trying to throw this thing?
I’m seriously considering writing a sourcebook for orks for 4th Edition. Like, seriously. I’m crazy like that.
Something a few people have been talking about in regards to political polling… celphones. Most polls use regular old landlines. They don’t have celphone numbers. Well, I don’t have a landline. I onlyhave a celphone. So, I never get polled. As a matter of fact, most folks under the age of 35 only have celphones.…
Take any line from any movie and replace one word with "cake." "Well, I believe in the soul, the cake, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe…
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing." — Poe’s Law His one credential is Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. That’s it. That’s his only accomplishment to credential himself as an "expert" in film. Otherwise,…
Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you…
Only Bush would use the bailout as a cover to expand the powers of the Executive Branch… A critical – and radical – component of the bailout package proposed by the Bush administration has thus far failed to garner the serious attention of anyone in the press. Section 8 (which ironically reminds one of the…
(yes, really written by Aaron Sorkin) OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry? BARTLET Well … let me think. …We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught…