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My collaborator CJO used Wordle to make these tag clouds for Thursday night's debates. Click either for full-size.

McCain's frequently-used words:


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So, those of you who read my blog at the Raccoon page (instead of somewhere else) may have noticed the Skrull / McCain PSA over on the left-hand side of the page.

Skrull-related humor is pretty much the province of comics geeks only, but for the benefit of the non-comics readers in the crowd, I thought I'd try explaining.

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Grades went in on Monday, so now I'm beginning to work out a plan for my summer. I have a few goals, including to begin sending the novel out to publishers. It's now in its third draft, although still not exactly "completed." But done enough that I might be ready to send out a few chapters to see if people were interested.

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There are many reasons why one might want to go to see 300, but the one I can at this point most heartily advocate is that I can not think of a cultural artifact that is more clearly the byproduct of life under the Bush Administration.

To wit: it's militaristic, it's stupid, it's racist, it's homophobic, it's openly contemptuous of anything that ( Read more... )