President Gore has an op-ed in today’s Times on how to debate George Bush. Gore’s oratory has improved a lot over the past three years, becoming decisive and incisive and only occasionally overheated. But this editorial disappoints, largely because it turns out not to be a debate cookbook, but rather an enumeration of all the [...]
It has recently been reported that top officials in the Bush administration hold secret Dungeons & Dragons sessions in the oval office every week. Dungeons & Dragons is a role-playing game in which players take on the personas of various heroic characters in a fantasy world controlled by a “Dungeon Master.” I managed to obtain [...]
I just found this map of my congressional district on my representative’s website, and I … am … appalled. We got gerrymandered out of shape during the last election cycle because the democrats desperately wanted to unseat our congresswoman, Connie Morella. As a result, our district isn’t a goddam district anymore, it’s a Rorschach test. [...]
The past couple of weeks have given birth to a new John Kerry. A Bigger, Stronger, Faster Acme Kerry who seems to have finally decided to step into the ring, rather than lurk on its perimeter and provide color commentary. Sadly, though, I think a lot of this new momentum comes from a massive improvement [...]
Friday night at home, and I’m cleaning out my room. Normally, this would be an extremely dull and just slightly depressing endeavor, but it’s just been redeemed by a wonderful discovery, deep in the bowels of my closet: an ancient album cover that my brother and I put together a long, long time ago. Not [...]
Yesterday our Commander in Chief was asked if his bright shiny outlook on the situation in Iraq was at all darkened by a recent CIA report that laid out three different scenarios for the country’s future, ranging from bad to very bad to horrible. No, he said, looking baffled and slightly afraid (Brain, don’t fail [...]
Missing: Twenty-Sided Die. Age: 23 years. Description: A small red polyhedron with twenty tiny flat surfaces, each inset with a number. Each number filled in with white crayon. Edges worn to the point where the die is almost completely spherical. History: Purchased, along with the D&D Basic Set, around 1981, in Plano Texas, and transported [...]
I am entering a new and interesting place that is, oddly enough, the same old and uninteresting place I’ve lived in for the past 34 years. I haven’t actually gotten there yet, but I can see it in the distance: the same crowded stretch of 270, plunging down toward the dull melee of DC traffic; [...]
I have a bunch of gmail invitations to distribute. If anybody’s interested, contact me here: ramseys AT gmail.com. Gmail a very cool webmail client, with lots of neat ideas, and it’s well worth trying out if you don’t mind the privacy issues. I’m a little bit conflicted about them, myself: I love the service, and [...]
Nowadays, whenever I encounter the latest horror that has issued from the Slavering Maw of the Bush administration, I just shrug and sigh and try not to think about it too much. I might feel a small flicker of outrage, but it’s just a tiny firefly of a creature, sparking fitfully in the infinite darkness [...]
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