Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
OK, perhaps comparing Democratic voters to battered wives was a bit unfair. (Cue IOZ: “Yeah, unfair to battered wives!”) So I’ll meet you guys half-way:
1) Find me a Democratic candidate running in a primary against an incumbent who’s voted for bad nominees, voted for bad bills, and voted against good bills. [...]

31 points out of 58 on Rolling Stone’s “Almost Impossible Rock & Roll Quiz,” which makes me a “Whiz,” proving they grade on a curve.

By Thoreau
I’ve decided to make our commenters happy.
Mmm, Kool-Aid tastes good!
And this time he’s promised that he won’t hit me again!  He really does love me!  He just has to do one more warrantless wiretap, and then it’s all over.  He’ll put a stop to it, and as long as I don’t get uppity he [...]

Another bleg, basically.
I have my own ideas, but . . .
What are ways, healthy and unhealthy, that people can relate to the hobby of roleplaying games and to characters (players and GMs) and game worlds (GMs)? The good, the bad, the massively dysfunctional, even the transforming.

By Thoreau
Oh, for Christ’s fvcking sake!
As Judge Mukasey wrote, waterboarding is clearly against the law for the American military.
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The bottom line is this: I hope that Judge Mukasey will fairly and evenhandedly represent the American people and direct the Justice Department wherever the facts and the law lead, not where the White House dictates.
Our nation [...]

By Thoreau
The Economist has a fascinating article detailing how the placebo effect applies to performance-enhancing drugs in sports. They didn’t study steroids, however. Rather, they studied morphine, which is forbidden during competition (because athletes on pain-killers might be able to push themselves to lengths that would be too painful otherwise). They found [...]

By Mona
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Doubtless, all the libertarians here recall Hayek’s brilliant chapter in The Constitution of Liberty entitled “On the Creeping Socialism of Trick or Treating.” Oh wait, no, that analysis awaited address by that luminary and great intellect, Sean Hannity:

On the October 31 edition of Fox News’ Hannity & Colmes, co-host Sean [...]