According to Wikipedia, there have been four Black Mondays so far in 2008!

If there were just three, you could call them Black, Blacker, and Blackest Monday, but I don't know what to do with the fourth.

Running down the prediction list...

It won't be like the Quayle-Bentsen debate. Biden won't have any lines like Senator, you're no Jack Kennedy. Yep, not a train wreck. He did get the best line of the night, though, with the bridge to nowhere conclusion.

He'll flub an answer at least once, and it'll make a Drudge Report headline. Actually, he ( Read more... )

Some predictions about the debate tonight ( Read more... )

The main character in The Witcher is a slut. Seriously. He sleeps with just about every non-hostile female character in the game important enough to have a name.

The Secretary of the Treasury reminds me of the Mercenary from The Chaos Engine.


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It has a Core 2 Quad 9450, 4 gigs of RAM, and a GeForce 9800 GTX (which, despite the high model number and extra letters tacked on, is actually just a mid-range graphics card ( Read more... )

Anyone else get the feeling that McCain's campaign is little more than a string of gimmicks? First it was the charismatic but shallow running mate out of left (right?) field, then a Bellman-inspired dishonesty onslaught, and most recently an attempt to call off campaigning and delay the debates until a rescue plan is passed ( Read more... )

Hey, Order of the Stick might start moving again.

I can't help but wonder if the author set up the subplots-growing-subplots situation just for the opportunity to do this.

Small-Town Values are the new Family Values. Strange that I grew up not only in a family but also in a small town, yet don't have a problem with gay marriage or wish FDR had taken the bullet that killed Anton Cermak. Perhaps I was inoculated young against STVs.

Hey, someone found a job that actually allows telecommuting.

(from Crooked Timber)