So I watched the O'Reilly Factor tonight, because I'm a Barack Obama fanboy. At the end, he's going off on the Atlanta Journal-Constitution over a columnist who called him a hypocrite because he slammed the Spears parents but not the Palin parents. See, he'd called the Spears parents pinheads because the daughters were unsupervised. But he insists ( Read more... )

We did less Bumbershoot than normal this year, in part so we could hang with Eli more, and in part because the Republicans banned the Bumbershoot shuttle, turning our 20-minute bus ride into an hour-long one. God damn Republicans ( Read more... )

One of my players here is leaving the game. I don't really understand why. "I'm having fun," she said. "I'm just not as into it as you guys are ( Read more... )

After the long parade of every minor elected official from Illinois, it was nice to get Ted Kennedy out there. I liked the video; it didn't gloss over the fact that he's rich, nor over the fact that he was carrying on the work of his brothers. I grew up in a conservative area, so it's still hard for me to internalize that people like Ted Kennedy; ( Read more... )

Listening to the C-SPAN interview with Jerome Corsi, the author of Obama Nation. He actually made a half-decent point in rebutting one point of Obama's rebuttal, pointing out that the campaign set up a straw man ( Read more... )

Got pissy at the anti-Obama books today. So I went and bought The Audacity of Hope. It's now available in trade or mass-market paperwork. I bought the hardcover. So far I've read the first chapter.

The Obama campaign has a takedown of the Corsi book, called "Unfit for Publication." Kick ass ( Read more... )

Last night, I read a section about halfway through War and Peace. Natasha has rejected Prince Andrei, and Anatole is planning to steal her away to elope, but Sonya tells Marya (long Russian second name) and it's put to a stop ( Read more... )

Successfully DM'd a party to the end of an adventure last night. Now I'm setting up possibilities for the next one. I tired of railroading the characters, so I'm going to try to open it up more as we go ( Read more... )

"There are companies that I love, and companies that I hate, and companies that I have a complex love-hate relationship with. None of them are clothing stores."

Having cancelled my plans for today on account of breaking my toe on furniture yesterday, Dawn and I stayed up late last night to watch the S4 finale on YouTube. (Thank God for copyright violations!) It was super. I must admit, though, that a small part of me regrets it, because I didn't get the weeklong anticipation between The Stolen Earth and ( Read more... )