SIGNAL BOOST PLEASE

Brutal hate crime. Unpunished. Unacknowledged by our 4000% sensationalist media. Why?

Looks like it's my fine state's turn to pass a video game ban. This bill (or one similar) has been deemed unconstitutional in every state in which it has been passed, and the Illinois courts went so far as to make taxpayers cover the ESA's court costs getting the law struck down. Time to write the reps and let them know that they're fighting a ( Read more... )

CNN.com is reporting that Donald Rumsfeld is going to resign.

Republicans no longer control the House of Representatives ( Read more... )

Washington, D.C. -- Nov. 7 Former president Jimmy Carter leads a team of international observers that will monitor elections in the United States today. Observers from Nicaragua, Guatemala, North Korea, Mexico, Congo, Nigeria, Pakistan and the West Bank will watch polling places for signs of fraud or suppression of the vote. In recent years, Carter ( Read more... )

Yesterday the New Jersey Supreme Court ordered the state legislature to allow same-sex couples in the state to marry, or to set up a civil union or similar named arrangement that is identical except in name. Though not as sweeping ad the Massachusetts ruling was, it's definitely good to see another state in the 21st century ( Read more... )

Is everybody ready for the end of the fiscal year on 30 Feb 07?

I still think the man's a crackpot, but despite (because of?) that, Christy Mihos has the Best. Campaign Ad. EVAR.

In unrelated news, anyone have any Riftwar books I could borrow? I got to the Raymond Feist story in Legends II and really enjoyed it, so I'd like to see whether it's worth getting the series' books too.

For those who can't live without their weekly "what's going on in jiggliusceasar's life" fix:

( One demon, two babies, three southwest hi-tech America, four flashing arrows... )

Stolen from whuffle: If you believe in the original Constitution, post this in your journal today:

230 years ago IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous declaration of the thirteen united States of America,

When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and ( Read more... )