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Super Committee
Originally posted by subluxate at Super Committee
Americans--
The Super Committee, aka Joint Committee on Deficit Reduction, is due to deliver its plan to cut $1.5 trillion from the budget over the next decade. This is due tomorrow, 11/23.
If it is not delivered, automatic cuts of $1.2 trillion are triggered. These cuts are taken from both defense and non- ( Read more... ) -
Publication upon removal of Teh Gay
Via rydra_wong
Genreville: "The agent offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to his sexual orientation."
Let me just repeat that:
The agent offered to sign us on the condition that we make the gay character straight, or else remove his viewpoint and all references to his ( Read more... ) -
GameStop contest
Mama’s Holiday Wish List Meme
TodaysMama (link to: http://bit.ly/tmwishlist) and GameStop (link to: http://bit.ly/gamestop10) are giving away a sleighful of gifts this holiday season and to enter I’m sharing this meme with you.
1. What is your holiday wish for your family?
That everyone is happy and healthy.
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John Kovalic on racism in RPGs
Dork Tower is a webcomic about gaming. John Kovalic posted these two strips about the absence of characters of color in miniatures gaming (which is, or has been true of other types of games as well). I saw the strips, but hadn't posted until I saw major_clanger's post detailing that Kovalic's comic strips had gotten feedback from fans--most, but not all of it ( Read more... ) -
three more Hannelore icons
Tonight's QC had a panel of Hannelore that provided two good icons. So I made those two, plus another from a strip I had saved.
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whoaaa
We saw the funniest thing at the DVD store a little while ago.
It was called "Praise Moves." There was a woman in a yoga-type pose on the cover. I stepped closer and saw that the subtitle was "A Christian Alternative to Yoga."
I poked Jess and said, "Look, yoga without all of those nasty eastern influences."
I hadn't read the back of the box...which ( Read more... ) -
I got yer plural right here
I read a couple of days ago that the only acceptable English plural of "octopus" is "octopuses," and that "octopi" is incorrect and "octopodes" misguided. I believe I have found a solution: more than one octopus is an "octoposse."
