Sam Roswell

Are you worried about Climate Change?

2009-10-22T12:25:00Z

Feel that people should ditch the SUVs?
Then be consistent and ditch the doggies.

samroswell @ 2009-08-06T12:50:00

2009-08-06T16:51:28Z

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Vid

2009-06-09T13:08:56Z

Ramirez

2009-05-01T00:04:40Z

Ramirez

2009-04-14T12:08:02Z

Jonah G

2009-04-03T14:09:38Z

Uncle Sam’s Long Arm

Take out your calendar. Notice how tax day and Election Day are conspicuously far apart? And note all the holidays involving gifts, booze, and sleep-inducing meals (turkey good . . . losing . . . consciousness) interspersed between the two occasions? Mightn’t this be to encourage forgetfulness and reduce buyer’s remorse? Of course, as they used to say in the old Time-Life Mysteries of the Unknown commercials, this is “dismissed as coincidence.”

Whatever. I say let’s have Election Day on tax day. Let’s get what we’re paying for. Sign the check — for the full amount — and write in your preferred candidates on the back of the same check.

Real Diplomacy, cont.

2009-03-20T03:19:24Z

Yup, those DVDs we so very thoughtfully gave the UK were in fact Region 1, NTSC formatted. Luckily Gibbs was there to "snigger" at the investigating journalist. He's good at that.

Ramirez

2009-03-10T12:20:32Z

So this is how Real Diplomacy is done?

2009-03-06T14:06:30Z

UK to US:
Pen holder fashioned from the oak timber of HMS Gannet, aka HMS President, sister ship to HMS Resolute.
Framed commissioning paper for HMS Resolute.
First edition of Martin Gilbert's seven-volume biography of Winston Churchill.

US to UK:
Twenty-five DVD AFI boxed set, including ET, Star Wars, and The Wizard of Oz. Probably Region 1 NTSC formatted.

Brown Family to Obama children:
Outfits from Topshop.
Six British-authored children novels, not published in the US.

Obama Family to Brown children:
Identical models of Marine Force One, from White House gift shop.

Bookmark

2009-03-06T01:37:27Z

"The Geography of a Recession"

Speaking Truth to Power

2009-02-21T03:34:25Z

Literature

2009-02-20T03:27:11Z

I understand that writing books takes time. I understand that people are, but shouldn't be, impatient jerks. But if you insist on ending each of your books (or chapters, for serial publications) on a cliffhanger, then you get no sympathy from me for the nasty things that people will write to you or about you when you don't publish the next part quickly (or misestimate its publication by a significant amount). End after a climax, not before, and with the important surviving characters in some relative amount of safety, and most people will not be nearly as high-strung about waiting for the next book. And they'll still buy the next book, if you're a good author.

If you feel you have to keep ending books on cliffhangers to get people to buy the next book, then don't whine when people gripe at you to finish the next part.

Kim Jong Il eHarmony ad

2009-02-11T11:12:38Z

It's called the 1040DEM

2009-02-11T03:46:27Z

Yet another reason the GOP should have stayed in power a bit longer...

2009-02-07T14:56:35Z

Cher: Republican Rule Almost ‘Killed Me’
If we could only have been so lucky...

Stimulis: Because all economies have performance issues

2009-02-06T03:18:52Z

Song of Ice and Fire

2009-01-31T04:22:41Z

EDIT: On a similar note, GRRM is taking a second shot at an RPG based on the SOIAF setting with Green Ronin (the first attempt was with Guardians of Order). This time a non-d20 custom system is being used, which actually looks pretty good. What do you think, a good option for gritty medieval fantasy gaming?

On a lighter note...

2009-01-17T02:34:41Z

Congress Debates Adding Elaborate Dance To Obama's Inauguration Ceremony

Barack Obama is a moron

2009-01-17T02:23:43Z

He wants to carry an open microphone on his person, so all the intelligence agencies of the rest of the world will always know everything he says.

UN Ambulance used as Hamas troop carrier during gun battle

2009-01-07T03:57:10Z

The 12 Days of Global Warming

2008-12-31T01:19:48Z

(h/t: Steve Hayward)

Asset Management

2008-12-29T05:20:05Z

From Washington Post:

The Afghan chieftain looked older than his 60-odd years, and his bearded face bore the creases of a man burdened with duties as tribal patriarch and husband to four younger women. His visitor, a CIA officer, saw an opportunity, and reached into his bag for a small gift.

Four blue pills. Viagra.

"Take one of these. You'll love it," the officer said. Compliments of Uncle Sam.

The enticement worked. The officer, who described the encounter, returned four days later to an enthusiastic reception. The grinning chief offered up a bonanza of information about Taliban movements and supply routes -- followed by a request for more pills.

G-File

2008-12-12T13:29:51Z

A Little Blago for Everyone:

There are so many things to love about the Rod Blagojevich scandal it’s hard to know where to begin.

Wait. That’s not right. There are so many bleeping things to love about this bleeping-bleep Blagojevich scandal it’s hard to know where to begin.

Did you catch the political ad...

2008-12-04T18:43:23Z

...in which two Jews ring the doorbell of a nice working-class family? They barge in and rifle through the wife’s purse and then the man’s wallet for any cash. Cackling, they smash the daughter’s piggy bank and pinch every penny. “We need it for the Wall Street bailout!” they exclaim.

No? Maybe you saw the one with the two swarthy Muslims who knock on the door of a nice Jewish family and then blow themselves up?

Oh, Canada...

2008-12-04T13:13:14Z

For all you lovers of Parliamentary Governments out there, check out the good Neighbors to the North.

Apparently this event is the relevant precedent.