Sam Roswell

Are you worried about Climate Change?

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 12:25:00 GMT

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

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 16:51:28 GMT

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Vid

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 13:08:56 GMT

Ramirez

Fri, 01 May 2009 00:04:40 GMT

Ramirez

Tue, 14 Apr 2009 12:08:02 GMT

Jonah G

Fri, 03 Apr 2009 14:09:38 GMT

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.

Fri, 20 Mar 2009 03:19:24 GMT

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

Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:20:32 GMT

So this is how Real Diplomacy is done?

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 14:06:30 GMT

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

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 01:37:27 GMT

"The Geography of a Recession"

Speaking Truth to Power

Sat, 21 Feb 2009 03:34:25 GMT

Literature

Fri, 20 Feb 2009 03:27:11 GMT

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

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 11:12:38 GMT

It's called the 1040DEM

Wed, 11 Feb 2009 03:46:27 GMT

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

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 14:56:35 GMT

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

Stimulis: Because all economies have performance issues

Fri, 06 Feb 2009 03:18:52 GMT

Song of Ice and Fire

Sat, 31 Jan 2009 04:22:41 GMT

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...

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:34:41 GMT

Congress Debates Adding Elaborate Dance To Obama's Inauguration Ceremony

Barack Obama is a moron

Sat, 17 Jan 2009 02:23:43 GMT

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

Wed, 07 Jan 2009 03:57:10 GMT

The 12 Days of Global Warming

Wed, 31 Dec 2008 01:19:48 GMT

(h/t: Steve Hayward)

Asset Management

Mon, 29 Dec 2008 05:20:05 GMT

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

Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:29:51 GMT

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...

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:43:23 GMT

...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...

Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:13:14 GMT

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

Apparently this event is the relevant precedent.