The New York Post gets to the bottom of the dead groundhog cover up. Prepare to be scandalized.

One of the reasons I stick around Livejournal (aside from pure laziness) despite its myriad issues and the ongoing spamming is the Great
Poets community, where members post various poems that have inspired or amused them. I'm familiar with most of the poems and poets, but not all, and every once in awhile, the community introduces me to someone I ( Read more... )

Over at Black Gate a commentator whined, among other things, that "… fantasy fiction is in desperate need of is good adventure stories free of contemporary politics. There is no shortage of politically driven fiction of varying quality ( Read more... )

Last night, Christian activist and anti-porn and masturbation crusader Christine O'Donnell won a Republican primary in Delaware. Suddenly, the U.S. rose to attention (ahem) and remembered that Delaware is actually a state, and not just an awesome place for banks to hide rapacious credit card practices.

I agree with Balloon-juice that we can ( Read more... )

In other news, we went ahead and did early voting again today ( Read more... )

Not to anyone's real surprise, Hawaii's governor vetoes same-sex civil unions. Somewhat to people's real surprise, her reasoning: "It would be a mistake to allow a decision of this magnitude to be made by one individual or a small group of elected officials," she said.
Really? Because I was under the impression that making decisions like this was ( Read more... )

So as a few of you may have heard, the Republican Party made an admirable attempt to solicit the opinions of Normal Dudes Just Like You on their website, asking for thoughts on a number of topics.

They did not, it appears, reckon on the internet. Here are some responses from the site, copied over before they disappear ( Read more... )

Boos! Impressions of the British election ( Read more... )

From The New York Times:Conservative leader David Cameron has held his very safe seat in Witney. He was immediately congratulated by the candidate from the Monster Raving Loony Party, who stood right next to him and shook his hand.
Now, if only some United States politicians would admit their affiliation with the Monster Raving Loony Party, we'd be ( Read more... )

I know. I know. I've been neglecting this blog recently. It's not LJ (or Dreamwidth) or a sign that I'm going to leave LJ (or Dreamwidth) although, while I'm on this subject, LJ's recent tendency to suddenly log me out when I'm trying to view your locked posts and trying to force me to watch a pop-up add before allowing me to attempt to log back in ( Read more... )