Apparently, a protest starring Lt. Dan Choi and Kathy Griffin got out of hand when he led a group off to protest outside the White House.

Lt. Choi chained himself to the fence and was subsequently arrested.

See various updates hereI must admit, I get this guy's frustration. If I were working somewhere and was (legally) fired for being gay (as in ( Read more... )

From the Narbonic Director's Cut commentary:

I didn't go into a lot of detail in the strip, but the concept in the back of my head here was that Mell, an inexperienced but charismatic youngish politician, runs as Vice-President on the Republican ticket (I thought the Republicans would be more successful running a woman than the Democrats, because ( Read more... )

Hopefully, someone out there has a useful response to this:

If you had 6 (now 5) days to learn everything you can about Basic Accountancy, what resource do you think would be the best to go to?

(The context is that I'm preparing for a multiple-choice test that is the gateway for my getting an interview, so I suppose that's worth knowing).

( In other news, Pat Robertson is still a douchebag )

In memory of family and friends who have lost the battle with cancer; and in support of the ones who continue to conquer it! Post this on your LJ if you know someone who has or had cancer. 93% won't copy and paste this. Will you?You could call it a glut of cancer, I suppose. Tumors, growths, and cysts are part of my regular news feed from my ( ( Read more... )

I believe I'm close to killing my first player character (not player) for being a complete idiotic jackass.

It feels really good. More so because I have fudged no roll, broken no rule, nor caused anyone to act out of character or unrealistically to make this happen ( Read more... )

My God, Syfy, can't you even afford movies with passable choreography? I mean, that was the most half-assed fight I've ever seen in a movie made by people who were paid money to do it (and worse than some made by volunteers ( Read more... )

Happy New Year.

Here's hoping 2010's better and more productive than the last one.

Yeah, 2 feet of snow.

That didn't annoy me.

The slush didn't annoy me.

METRO annoyed me.

Once it became clear this was a blizzard, Metro leapt into action, closing the aboveground metro stops, suspending bus service, and (my personal favorite) linking the informational signs to a random process (honestly, the sign would go from 'This bus is ( Read more... )

This makes me tremendously happy.

And to think, it probably would never have happened if it weren't for Square-Enix.