I Am A: Lawful Good Human Cleric (4th Level)

Ability Scores:

Strength-12

Dexterity-12

Constitution-11

Intelligence-16

Wisdom-13

Charisma-13

Alignment:
Lawful Good A lawful good character acts as a good person is expected or required to act. He combines a commitment to oppose evil with the discipline to fight relentlessly. He tells the truth, keeps ( Read more... )

Mexico's Drug War: A Rigged Fight? by John Burnett and Marisa Penaloza (www.npr.org)

"An NPR News investigation in Ciudad Juarez - ground zero of Calderon's cartel war - finds strong evidence that Mexico's drug fight is rigged, according to court testimony, current and former law enforcement officials, and an NPR analysis of cartel arrests."

The mystery of why so many PCs are missing eyes is solved!

Nothing in life is certain except death and taxes.  Unless, of course, you happen to be an American corporation.

"And a 2008 GAO report found that two-thirds of US corporations paid zero federal income taxes from 1998-2005. Twenty-five percent of the largest US corporations had $1.1 trillion in gross sales in 2005 but paid no federal income taxes. ( Read more... )

Steve, Sasha and I discussed this case a few weeks ago while driving to gaming.

"Five years after alerting authorities that she was gang-raped in Iraq, KBR/Halliburton employee Jamie Leigh Jones will finally get her day in court."

KBR on Trial--At Last by Karen Houppert (www.thenation.com)

Another article (Court Okays Halliburton Rape Trial by ( Read more... )

The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander (www.thenation.com)

The Attack on Climate-Change Science: Why It's the O.J. Moment of the Twenty-First Century by Bill McKibben

'Indeed, the IPCC managed to include, among other glitches, a spurious date for the day when Himalayan glaciers would disappear. It won't happen by 2035, as the report indicated--a fact that has now been spread so widely across the Internet ( Read more... )

Mortal Kombat!

Badass of the week

I submit the following for the amusement of all, but freely confess that I thought immediately (and fondly) of Steve as soon as I read it.

"CBS is certainly within its legal rights to broadcast an anti-choice ad during the Super Bowl, but the network, under current Federal Communications Commission fairness rules, would certainly have to broadcast a ( Read more... )