On Thursday, Vice President Biden addressed the AFL-CIO in Florida. Fox News, in typical fashion, reported before the address that it was closed to the press, invoking mock outrage at the usurpation of Constitutional Rights (the same kind John Yoo believed could be waved away with a pen stroke ( Read more... )

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Ugh. This has been a bit of a draining week for me. I'm gonna need some Rock Band, I can feel it.

8 out of the top 10 porn consuming states voted for John McCain in the last election.

The top state in dollars per resident it Utah, the second is Alaska.

Swing state Florida and Obama's home state of Hawai'i are the only ones on the top 10 list to vote blue.

The Senate just voted to pass legislation that would grant Washington DC a seat in the House of Representatives, in exchange for granting an additional seat to Utah. This would bring the total number of Reps to 437, the first increase since the House fixed the number in 1911, but temporarily increased it to 437 when Alaska and Hawai'i were ( Read more... )

I like Dawn of War. I liked it even more when the Tau Expansion came out, as it suited my style of play. This last week, I did something that was rare for me: I actually bought a game, sight and reviews unseen, because the quality of the first game was superior and the same company was producing it ( Read more... )

Two Juvenile Court Judges in Pennsylvania have plead guilty to fraud on a massive scale. The allegations state that, over the course of several years, the judges sentenced over 2000 minors to privately owned prisons, detention camps, and other such facilities run by two affiliated companies. There are records that a sizable number of these ( Read more... )

I need to read it for my History Class, but I want to see if anyone has it and can lend it to me rather than me having to buy it.

So I finally got and chance to play Guitar Hero 4 this last weekend. While I can certainly say that I still like Rock Band 2 more, there are some very strong points that GH4 has in its favor. To be completely fair, as a person who pretty much only plays the drums, I don't think I got the full experience as I was playing on a 4-pad Rock Band set, ( Read more... )

The Governor of Utah, yes THAT Utah, is on the record as supporting recognizing same-sex civil unions in the state.

Wow. Just wow. In the grand political scheme of things, for the Republican Governor of Utah to come out in support of this after the huge LDS-Church backed effort to kill same-sex Marriage in California, this is kind of unreal.