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Houses of the Blooded: Actively Using Courage (and a Falcon Blessing)
Inspired by a session with Snag (therefore, he gets credit for this), let’s talk about another use for Courage. Everyone knows how Courage risks against Terror work. You fail, you have to start spending Style Points. Even if you succeed, you have to spend wagers equal to the Terror. Okay, friends. You can thank Snag…
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McCain Blinks. Obama’s Response
(paraphrasing) McCain: "The talks are standing still. We should stop campaigning and focus on the economy." White House and Congress: "The talks are going good. We don’t need your help." Obama: "A President should be able to focus on more than one thing at a time." Wow. Is McCain trying to throw this thing?
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4E Orks
I’m seriously considering writing a sourcebook for orks for 4th Edition. Like, seriously. I’m crazy like that.
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The Celphone Factor
Something a few people have been talking about in regards to political polling… celphones. Most polls use regular old landlines. They don’t have celphone numbers. Well, I don’t have a landline. I onlyhave a celphone. So, I never get polled. As a matter of fact, most folks under the age of 35 only have celphones.…
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Memento Mori Cake Meme
Take any line from any movie and replace one word with "cake." "Well, I believe in the soul, the cake, the pussy, the small of a woman’s back, the hanging curve ball, high fiber, good scotch, that the novels of Susan Sontag are self-indulgent, overrated crap. I believe Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. I believe…
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Roger Ebert Proves He Doesn’t Get It… Again
"Without a winking smiley or other blatant display of humor, it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won’t mistake for the real thing." — Poe’s Law His one credential is Beyond the Valley of the Dolls. That’s it. That’s his only accomplishment to credential himself as an "expert" in film. Otherwise,…
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IMPORTANT VERY HELP 100% GUARANTEE RE: MINISTRY OF THE TREASURY
Dear American: I need to ask you to support an urgent secret business relationship with a transfer of funds of great magnitude. I am Ministry of the Treasury of the Republic of America. My country has had crisis that has caused the need for large transfer of funds of 800 billion dollars US. If you…
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Only Bush Would Do This…
Only Bush would use the bailout as a cover to expand the powers of the Executive Branch… A critical – and radical – component of the bailout package proposed by the Bush administration has thus far failed to garner the serious attention of anyone in the press. Section 8 (which ironically reminds one of the…
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A Conversation between Jed Bartlet and Barack Obama (written by Aaron Sorkin)
(yes, really written by Aaron Sorkin) OBAMA The problem is we can’t appear angry. Bush called us the angry left. Did you see anyone in Denver who was angry? BARTLET Well … let me think. …We went to war against the wrong country, Osama bin Laden just celebrated his seventh anniversary of not being caught…
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I Strongly Strongly STRONGLY Disagree with the Results of This
This is not me. I answered questions that would disqualify me from this category. I should have shown up higher on the political spectrum and far more permissive on the social spectrum. What’s more, friends of mine that I know to be Conservative have shown up as Liberal. I call shenanegans. You are a Social…