Neil Gaiman tweeted this, and, oh, boy, did it make me laugh.

Obama Disappointed Cabinet Failed To Understand His Reference To 'Savage Sword Of Conan' #24*

WASHINGTON-President Barack Obama expressed frustration Wednesday after members of his cabinet failed to recognize his allusion to the 24th issue of the comic series Savage Sword Of Conan ( Read more... )

No, really. I actually made three of 'em.

See, ever since Barack Obama was elected president (yay!), I've had this in mind, but... well, I suck and never got around to them. Until tonight, for who knows what reason.

All right, backstory time.

Back in the day, there was this SNL sketch featuring a retelling of the New Testament. Except it was ( Read more... )

I was just browsing the on demand stuff, 'cause I'm procrastinating my HOL homework, looking for something to watching. In the run-up to the inauguration, they've got a bunch of Obama's speeches, mostly from last year ( Read more... )

Hearing Sarah Palin repeat the idea that John McCain's strong "fundamentals of the economy" was really talking about the "American worker," it made me think of how many LiveJournal and blog and forum posts are made by the American worker during the work day. How many people read email or check sports scores or read movie reviews or dozens of other ( Read more... )

I know I should be watching the presidential debate right now, but... I can't. It takes too much energy, what with the answers - and non-answers - from both candidates; it's just more than I want to deal with today. And, honestly, I don't think there's anything either of them could say that would sway my vote; I've known which way my wind blows ( Read more... )

I don't usually read the newspaper, mostly because I'm lazy. (Plus, I don't like the inky finger syndrome that comes from reading the daily paper.) I don't get any daily newspaper emails or anything. But, we get the New York Times daily email at work, and I look through it and read the featured articles that sound interesting ( Read more... )

87% Barack Obama
85% Chris Dodd
85% Bill Richardson
84% John Edwards
81% Hillary Clinton
80% Joe Biden
80% Dennis Kucinich
76% Mike Gravel
40% Rudy Giuliani
32% John McCain
28% Mitt Romney
27% Mike Huckabee
21% Tom Tancredo
20% Ron Paul
17% Fred Thompson

2008 Presidential Candidate Matching Quiz

If you haven't heard, Senator Rick Santorum has recently made the world's worst analogy regarding the war in Iraq. Well, actually, it might be the best analogy, but it's certainly not what he was aiming for.

“As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else,” Santorum said, describing the tool the evil Lord ( Read more... )