There's a shindig at 6:00pm at wayward coffeehouse (85th and Greenwood, I believe) to celebrate the 3rd anniversary of the Serenity, the Firefly movie. Does anyone want to go? It doesn't seem to involve actually watching the movie, (we could do that before or after) but it does involve trivia, a skit, live music (about Firefly, one presumes) and a ( Read more... )

This Article from the Guardian is mostly about how the rest of the world will become more deeply anti-American if McCain wins. This quote in particular gave me the solution to the problem:

"For Obama has stirred an excitement around the globe unmatched by any American politician in living memory. Polling in Germany, France, Britain and Russia shows ( Read more... )

Obama's response to Palin's dismissive comment about procedural process for detainees.

On Labor:

"Organization" and "collusion" are synonymous. The choice of which to apply to any particular case is a matter of editorial policy.

Via The Distributed Republic

This LA Times article by Ezra Klein extolls the virtue of electing Senators to the Whitehouse, because they're better at shepherding legislation through Congress.

I guess the syllogism looks like this:

Major Premise: Congressmen will be effective at passing legislation as president.
Minor Premise: Passing presidential legislation is good for the ( Read more... )

Sometimes I want to play boardgames that take all day to play. Do you feel the same way? If so, Big Game Hunters is the gaming group for you. We'll provide a forum to organize to play boardgames that take 6 or more hours ( Read more... )

Frack!

PAX was awesome. I spent most of my time enforcing in the tabletop section, but I got a couple plays of Race for the Galaxy in, and I got to shephard Darth Vader and the stormtroopers around the exhibition hall for an hour or so. Also: Swag.

Is this true? I think it's true. That said, some issues like abortion don't have a middle ground, and so the "extremists" have basically the same views as everyone else, they're just more willing to be jackholes about it.

My carpool driver is significantly more liberal than I am in a lot of ways, but the other day we started talking about ( Read more... )

I'm an Enforcer again this year. I'll be in the Tabletop area from 3:00pm until whenever that shift ends (11:00pm?) Friday, Saturday and Sunday. If you're going to PAX, you should stop by!

Watch it fast, in case this link isn't as permanent as I think it is.
Yeah, it's about Quidditch.