I have so many cool things to talk about but this isn't one of them.

Arnold Schwarzenneger is going to be a cartoon and comic book superhero called the Governator, written by Stan Lee. Personally, as someone who lived in California while he was governor, I think it should be re-titled: RETCON.

ZOMGWTFBBQ, the jokes just write themselves. He has a ( Read more... )

The President of the United States of America is going to use our tax money to invade public schools with a terrifying message:

"Study hard and stay in school."

You know what Dr. Leslie Arntz would say right about now, right? THE PIGS ARE WALKING! THE PIGS ARE WALKING!

Although, I don't think he came up with that on his own.

It's the annual Strange Horizons fund drive. Strange Horizons being maybe the most influential online market for SF/F stories. They pay their authors well and they run solely on a donation basis and TODAY ONLY the one and only John Scalzi is matching any donations made up to $500. So if you have some extra money, give it to them today. Scalzi will ( Read more... )

We decided to let Claire stay up with us last night and watch the election results.  I started to explain it to her, "This is the first time a..." and stopped short.

Although we've read books about MLK to Claire, they talk about people fighting for equality, not about being divided by skin color. I don't believe Claire has yet to encounter that ( Read more... )

We hit the polls relatively early this morning, but there were already waaaaaaaay more people there than I've seen voting before.  Technically, I haven't ever voted in this particular polling place for a presidential election, but the place I did vote in 2004 only had maybe 10 people in line in front of us, maybe 20 behind us.  This time, there ( Read more... )

Copy this sentence into your livejournal if you're in a heterosexual marriage/relationship (or if you think you might be someday), and you don't want it "protected" by the bigots who think that gay marriage hurts it somehow.

If you didn't know, I do live in California and you can bet I'll be voting "No" on Proposition 8.

As a Christian, I'm getting really pissed off reading and listening to other Christians not only question Barack Obama's faith, but outright deny it to him.  Reasons he can't be a Christian vary from his middle name to his last name to questions about his ethnicity (is he an Arab? *Gasp*) to questions about his prior religious beliefs (he used to ( Read more... )

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Listen. If for some reason, I decide to join the armed forces, please for the love of God DO NOT SEND ME OVERSEAS (or wherever my services are required) BEFORE I GO TO BOOTCAMP (at a bare minimum).  Because really, if I'm not trained, I'm pretty sure you're not going to want me in your military.

And if you want to be a teacher, you better know I ( Read more... )

I am both enthralled and completely uneasy about this t-shirt.  I love it.  I'm made very uncomfortable by it.  I can't remember the last time I've had such strange reactions to a t-shirt.


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