Are you going to personally pick up and help your fellow citizens who are elderly or disabled to go get photo IDs and later vote if they are unable?  Or are you too lazy to put up and "Love one another. As I have loved you."

Well, it's February 2nd again.  And that means people with a little too much time and not enough beer in their systems will be pestering some hapless groundhog to see if there will be another six weeks of winter.   Bill Murry's movie actually does capture some of the eccentricities involved, even if I've never repeated the day over and over.

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Well, we'd been hoping for new episodes for over a year, we watch it whenever it's on!

I'm not sure why HGTV calls it Design on a Dime since most everything about the show has changed, and not for the better.

1. Despite the show's name, it is NOT a dime any more, not the slang term for 1000 dollars.  it's 2000, which is a whole bunch more than inflation ( Read more... )

I've been playing a second run through for my main OC character in Dragon Age 2.  I play slow, so It's been weeks for Act 1 alone.  I'm just finishing up a few stray things, like returning the warden letters, because Thedas doesn't have a UPS.  My writing is not completely stalled, but it is slow, so this is only my 3rd run through, unlike all you ( Read more... )

The whole debt limit was completely phrased in GOP terms, but no one even mentioned how hight debt was when jobs and hope were made in the depression.  And then the gush for wartime spending that finished the deprssion.  We cannot feed a war and a depression on miserly spending. http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/08/29/1011574/-Barack,-can-we-talk? ( Read more... )

www.startrek.com/article/thrill-of-the-chase-undefined-july-2011  Star Trek Thrill of the Chase - July 2011

A friend linked me to this blog, and I find SF and spirituality compelling.  Some of the best treatments are done by SF creators who are avowed athiests.  I suspect it is because they can step back and aren't bound by their own faith and can ( Read more... )

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Well it's over two months until the election, and just about every station has saturated with political ads, way too early.  The one candidate started what can only be termed 'operation overkill' in June.  This candidate at the beginning of the summer actually had a slight advantage, because my preferred candidate didn't make it through the primary ( Read more... )

Last year, the first part of the sophomore season of the TNT series Leverage was distinctly lacking.  What made the first season so excellent was that the thieves were clever, worked well together, and the people they were conning deserved the con or more.  Often in the course of setting up the villain, they also made a nice profit, which is fine ( Read more... )