People hungry for information on the elections should consult the fivethirtyeight blog, written by Nate Silver. He's got one of the best handles on the actual figures that are available, and diligently churns poll results into likely outcomes ( Read more... )

I was watching MSNBC today and they played a tape of a North Carolina preacher, raving and fuming about 'homosexuals', 'queers', and 'babykillers'.
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So, I'm getting my Masters degree in Game Design! Just got accepted.

To those who haven't yet seen the tape ( Read more... )

To people who aren't on my google plus ( Read more... )

I was briefly in a band, or call it a project - we never played anywhere and we weren't all that terrific - called Big Drunken Edis. The name now seems cruel after Edis died of cirrhosis. But at the time it was somewhat of a homage. I played drums and my friend Brad played guitar. Playing drums successfully is one of the most fun things you can do ( Read more... )

So, apparently Rick Perry did very poorly at Texas A&M, which isn't a particularly good or tough school ( Read more... )

Fourth (or more accurately, fourth weekend) was family time. Got to spend time with cousins. They are still in the party-hard circuit, and I feel a little too old for that. But they're always super-welcoming. Because I did so much stuff with them all when they were little (which has now been boiled down to 'he threw us in the lake'), they have a ( Read more... )

Was watching news-based programming the other day, and ran into this particular gem:

46% of Republicans - 24% of Americans - believe that Obama is a Muslim.
( Occam's Razor )

So, I thought perhaps I'd start writing down some of my better stories ( Read more... )