Questions Children Ask

How does it poop?

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Boldly going where no one has gone before . . .

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Boldly Going where no one has gone before

Going where no one has gone before

Going

Staying the course . . .

Er . . . wait . . . I have prepared a speech . . .

"Americans... still believe in an America where anything's possible

- they just don't think their leaders do. They still dream big dreams

- they just sense their leaders have forgotten how."

---Remark of Senator Barack Obama, "A Call for Leadership" (09/20/06)

Meanwhile aboard the DNC Enterprise . . .


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Royal Rumble

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Of the people, by the people, for the people . . .

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Oh, c'mon, cut the crap. You don't really believe in that s**t, do you?

Ascend!


You too can be an Übermensch
This is the New World of the Ages.


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And it is . . . B O R D E R L E S S . . .


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Which means the people have little say about any of it.

Did they ever?

Why so shocked?

This is the way it is. This is the way it has always been.

You've always known it. You just couldn't face it. Better to look the other way. Better to believe the comfortable myths.

Oh, wipe the phony pained expression off your face. No one can see you, anyway.

It is only just you.

It has always been you.

And you want IT so bad.



You really, really want it, don't you?

To many, the New World of the Ages is a nightmare. Same as the old world.

But it doesn't have to be that way. Not for you.

Why be one of the slaves when you can be a master? An Übermensch?

It is the promise of the American Dream. Except that it's more like the Euro-Hindo-Sino-American Übermensch dream, now.

Is this it?

Is it THIS that you want:


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Ohhh, you naughty, naughty little Mensch.
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Most people will tell you the same thing about it:

Arkham Horror was one of the games that I lay awake at night, wondering what would have happened if I had done something differently. It's one of those games where we didn't talk about the mechanics afterwards, but rather the story. It's one of those games where everyone stands up and high-fives each other when something good happens for the team.
---Tom Vasel's review

People will tell you:

It also makes you lose some sanity each time you play it. It’s wonderful having a game that does it’s best to drive you to the edge of a really good panic and then kick you on the stomach and show that yes, things can be a LOT worse.
---Shina's Sketch Diary

You know how it is:

It never seems that players can keep up. If they shut down one gate, another opens. If they overcome one threat, two more spring up. The terror level keeps rising, driving away valuable allies and shutting down useful stores. And that stinkin' Cthulhu is just sitting in the background, laughing and waiting . . .

But enough about American politics.

It all can be so . . . alienating . . .

I find my thoughts drifting to Gegory Weir today . . . The Majesty of Colors:


There are five different endings, and your (in)action throughout determines the outcome.

It's rare to play something with its roots in emotion, rather than mere atmosphere. I can relate to this game, because I once had a dream about vibrant colors that I would never see again. Because I've looked down upon the seething crowds of New York from a 40th-story window. Because I knew a girl who dreamed every night about a sea full of floating corpses. Because I've turned strangers into friends, and friends into strangers.
---Psychotronic, on The Majesty of Colors

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I'm not quite sure what the connection is, but I bet Brooks likes this

Received in my E-Mail this morning:

Dear Amazon.com Customer,

As someone who has purchased or rated It's Good to Be the King: The Seriously Funny Life of Mel Brooks by James Robert Parish, you might like to know that Akira Kurosawa: Master of Cinema will be released on March 9, 2010.

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I wish every Dem senator (at least) would read this

Glenn Greenwald on The Democratic Party's deceitful game:

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Basically, this is how things have progressed:

Progressives: We want a public option! ...Now that you're going to pass the bill through reconciliation after all, you can include the public option that both you and we love, because you only need 50 votes, and you've said all year you have that!

Democrats/WH: No. ...it's not the right time for the public option. The public option only polls at 65%, so it might make our health care bill -- which polls at 35% -- unpopular.

On both policy and political grounds, a public-option-free mandate seems distastrous for Democrats.

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The math here isn't that advanced, guys...

Hell, even I can do it:

Polls: In Key States, Public Option Far More Popular Than Senate Plan

What do they mean by "Far More Popular?" They mean, there's a difference of about 25 points...
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