Unqualified Offerings

By Thoreau
Let’s imagine (just for the sake of argument) that a Democrat sits in the White House and comes up with some reason to not pull significant numbers of troops out of Iraq. Impossible, I know, but let’s imagine it anyway. Humor me on this.
And let’s also imagine (just for the sake of [...]

Happy Anniversary to the El Mocambo show.
Some options.

By Mona
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Until the primary results yesterday, I had not realized how very much I did. I’ll get drunk/toke weed/snort….whatever, and pull the lever (or use the Diebold Machine) for HRC if it comes down to her v. McCain, but I do not believe she has a principled bone in her body. Further, [...]

By Thoreau
The big story a few months ago was all of the states trying to get their primaries as early as possible, to end the hegemony of New Hampshire and Iowa.  Yet Super Tuesday came and went without a verdict in the Democratic column.  Ohio and Texas have had their say and while they haven’t [...]

If I were a Democratic-Party superdelegate, man, that would funny. But I’d want Hillary Clinton to stay in the race through the Pennsylvania primary, and I’d put the onus on Barack Obama to win it. If he didn’t win Pennsylvania outright, I’d expect to throw my weight behind Clinton.
You could say this is because I’m [...]

Thoughts on the passing of E. Gary Gygax from David Weigel (and Chicken John Rinaldi in the same item); Brett Peters. As a gamer, I had lots of problems with Gygax’s designs, and he comes in for a fair bit of satire in the novel I’m getting around to revising pretty soon. But he goes [...]