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Whatever happens tonight, don't blame me; I voted Socialist Workers.

So, I guess you can blame me if we're talking about President Elect Harris tomorrow morning, but I'll be laughing too loudly to hear you.

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My holy trinity of fantasy writing right now are Patrick Rothfuss (The Kingslayer Chronicles series), Joe Abercrombie (The First Law trilogy, Best Served Cold, and The Heroes), and George R. R. Martin (A Song of Ice and Fire series, currently being molested by HBO as Game of Thrones).

I started reading Ice and Fire when it was still only "coming ( Read more... )

I'm sure I got the specific Dworkin wrong, but the one who used to like to say to political thinkers: "You're right, but you got there via faulty reasoning.  Here's how you're really right."

Todd Akin:  I gotta say, this thing is really pissing me off because it seems to me that people are missing the point.

The point everyone should be belaboring is ( Read more... )

So, I've started watching Warehouse 13 on Netflix.  It's sort of a cross between The X-Files and Poltergeist: The Legacy - a couple of Secret Service agents are assigned to a black-budget operation that finds and secures objects with paranormal qualities.  I thought it would be just O.K., but so far (4 episodes in) it's exceeding those expectations ( Read more... )

...but check 0:34 for why I had to.

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Ouroboros.  Unicorn.  Horseshoes, anyone?

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