Here is the list of how US Senators voted today on a proposed amendment that would bar gun sales to those on the terrorist watch list.*

Here is the list of how each Senator voted on a proposal for stricter background checks in gun sales.

(If you right-click "View Image" on both of those, you can see the full list.)

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...That particular frustration of reading a book that several friends enthusiastically recommended, only to realize that it suffers from an utter disregard for historical accuracy and basic world-building ( Read more... )

It's amazing how much frustration one can generate by dealing with an incessantly slow Internet connection. Soon we are getting our own service. I don't know when "soon" is, but right now it really can't be soon enough. (Currently we share it with the house next door, which worked great until both houses filled up with people who apparently use ( Read more... )

Coming to the realization that I don't feel terribly interesting, lately. Or, more precisely, I am realizing that comments several people made to me while I was home at various points, all of which are essentially, "Well I checked your blog but it wasn't really about anything," have come back to haunt me ( Read more... )

I am so angry over this article it's not even funny. (Disclaimer: I'm angry. This is my first sound-off platform, and I'm hoping that by getting some of my mad out here, I'll be better able to help Chris formulate a ... let's say better response later. So, ah, thanks for being my test audience, eh ( Read more... )

We have Internet, for now, but unless the generator kicks on in the next hour, we won't have Internet for long. I'm so glad the team invested in a backup battery thingummy, but it wasn't meant to keep us backed up for more than a couple of hours ( Read more... )

Today, two of my teammates and I visited a journalist, Karzan Karim, who is serving a two-year sentence on some rather dubious charges. (More details in the second link above.) Karzan told us, through metal bars as we stood in a large courtyard and he stood under a caged-in portico in the prison facility, that he would rather be in prison right now ( Read more... )

WHY is Ticket to Ride: Europe so expensive?? WHYYYY?

Fifty dollars is too much to pay for a board game, even if it's one of the best boardgames I've ever played. What the hell. Today is just one frustration after another!

(Okay that last comment was only sort of serious. BUT THE REST OF IT!!! SIGH.)

See this homemade Occupy Wall Street reaction sign here? I saw it on FB today, and it's pissed me off. Just in case that link breaks, I've copied the text ( here: )

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