D&D alignments for Avatar characters! I swear that I know several readers of my blog who should enjoy this.

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President Bush explained in a major speech today that we don't "torture" prisoners in the Global War on Terrorism. No he clarifed, we use "an alternative set of proceduresYou see, don't call it "torture". It's an "alternative"! Take waterboarding. You shouldn't think of it as strapping a man upside down to a inclinced table, tightly wrapping ( Read more... )

This morning the computer arrived from El Paso, TX into Phoenix, AZ, on it's way to Los Angeles. It left Phoenix fifteen minutes ago.

Feels so good. One week late, my computer has finally shipped. Seven minutes ago, it left a FedEx shipping facility in El Paso, Texas for it's trip to my apartment. Estimated delivery is on Wednesday.

So my big reward for passing the bar was a new computer. I haven't bought a computer since I got a laptop in 2002, in preparation for law school. That means I haven't been able to run any of the new games I want to play (Civ4, Oblivion, and GTA:San Andreas). So the new computer is big. Or would be, if it were on time ( Read more... )

Lieberman seems to have decided that the trick for winning as an independent is to run to the right. Free of the demands of the primary, he can unfurl his wings for the war and so forth.

See him today: “If we just pick up like Ned Lamont wants us to do, get out by a date certain, it will be taken as a tremendous victory by the same people who ( Read more... )

There's been a lot of discussion about what the Lamont-Lieberman election means. Is this the start of a purge of moderates from the Democratic party? Is it about more than Iraq? Is it about nothing ( Read more... )

You know what gets me? When I hear (or read) people saying "very unique". If you're a normal human being, your probably asking right now, "so what ( Read more... )

In a repeat of Dover, PA election results last November, voters in Kansas have voted out a creationist majority on the Kansas School Board, meaning that "Intelligent Design" will soon be on the way out (again) in Kansas.

In the pipeline, three Timm-verse/DCAU direct-to-video movies with PG-13 ratings. Justice League: New Frontier, Superman:Doomsday, and Teen Titans:The Judas Contract ( Read more... )