The president can order the assassination of anyone, including a US citizen, anywhere in the world, far from any recognized war zone ( Read more... )

Playing D&D With Porn Stars has largely dropped off my radar, but I'm real happy I spotted this (originally from a discussion of sexist imagery that moved here)...
1-Many sexual behaviors you're defining as deviant are good for society. This conviction lies somewhere between a personal preference and a hypothesis. Useful data is scant ( Read more... )

This BBC profile of a handful of "Tea Partiers" manages to make them all sound fairly reasonable. Which is what makes it a useful look at why the movement is fundamentally misguided.

"I don't think it makes sense to spend our way out of recession. And the trillions we have spent haven't helped - unemployment is still high and small businesses are ( Read more... )

We eloped. Wedding's still on for October.

We played Burning Wheel. This time, Tina was GMing. First time ever! She was awesome ( Read more... )

Fred Clark offers a wonderful guide to telling "Real Americans" how to shut the fuck up.

Over the past month, things actually got interesting ( Read more... )

This, this thing right here. Exactly this.

Today is Wolf Blitzer's birthday. In honor of this, I present you a list of things I appreciate about Wolf Blitzer.

1. Wolf Blitzer has this show called The Situation Room. This show is set in a literal Situation Room, with a whole bunch of screens in it showing images of various Situations. During the show, however, Wolf Blitzer will never ( Read more... )

Had a minor epiphany today, thanks to this post about buy-in on Playing D&D with Porn StarsSometimes, games demand that we be always on -- constantly exciting, constantly creative, constantly sharing. This makes games scary. This makes games hard ( Read more... )