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I just finished it; it’s part of an alternate-history series (Renaissance fantasy subtype) which I like in spite of itself.  The only problem is the copy-editing and proofreading was… surprisingly bad, for a book that’s from a major SF/Fantasy publisher.  I suspect that standards have slipped a little for the publisher in question.

I got nothing to replace it with, so we’re going to keep The Evolutionary Void for another week. Sorry.

That’s the word from the San Diego Comic-Con, at least: details here and here.  High-level dungeon crawl, apparently; I’ll need to tweak my Elven Mage/Arcane Warrior/Battlemage/Spirit Healer for full Things Go Boom Now effect.

It’s interesting to see the way that complaints about the DLC for Dragon Age: Origins change every single time a new one comes out.  I’m not used to the computer RPG social scene, oddly enough: this is the first game that really has had my wife and I aware of its larger online community.  We were trying to figure out why there was so much acrimony lurking in forums for corporate decisions about a game that nobody was being forced to buy, until we realized that said acrimony was mostly fueled by a general desire to complain…

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PS: Mind you, Return to Ostagar should have been longer.

Yes, Maureen Dowd.

We may not have a “nation of cowards” on race, as Attorney General Eric Holder contended, but we may have a West Wing of cowards on race.

Although I’m somewhere between Holder and Dowd on this one: we have a national political party of cowards on race, and it’s the Democratic one.  As we’ve just had Andrew Breitbart graphically, if perhaps not quite deliberately, demonstrate. (more…)

I MUST SEE THIS FILM.

IT’S LIKE THEY RAIDED MY BRAIN FOR IDEAS. THIS IS EXACTLY THE KIND OF TEEN ROMANCE COMEDY THAT I WOULD WISH TO SEE.

I WILL STOP SHOUTING NOW.

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PS: Seriously, this looks like it’s going to live in the same place in my brain that Kung Fu Hustle does.

(Via Instapundit) The race-baiting, trash-talking Steve Cohen (D, TN-09) may continue to enjoy the effects of earned karma* by facing yet another candidate in the Democratic primary ready to win it by… race baiting and trash talking.  May Cohen have everything he deserves in the next two weeks.

That is a… hold up. 

Charlotte Bergmann for Congress.

That is all.

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*He may also continue to pog mo thoin.

The video below should be useful material for any gamers out there trying to convince their GMs that, yea, indeed, their character with the peg-leg can do that ridiculously acrobatic thing after all:

Remember: your PC does have that high a level in his or her dexterity/coordination/agility stat, and he or she does have his or her dancing/acrobatics/tumbling skill maxed out. Or he or she should, at least, if you’re trying to justify tap dancing with a peg-leg to a GM.  The point is that your PC really is a beautiful and unique snowflake; that’s part of the point in playing a roleplaying game in the first place*.

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*For the non gamer geeks: this assertion is not… universally held.

So What’Cha Want, Beastie Boys

It’s my website and I’ll like the Beastie Boys if I want to.

I beg to differ with JammieWearingFool: I heartily approve of Rep. Charlie Rangel’s (D, NY-15) spending decisions.

Charles Rangel’s legal bills are piling up as high as the campaign cash he’s raking in to pay for his ethics defense.

That leaves the Harlem Democrat with no choice but to run for, and win, a 21st term in the House to keep raising campaign money to pay legal fees – which top $1.7 million, records show.

You see: as of June 2010, Rangel has $517K on hand to cover both his primary and the general election.  That is not a good number, particularly if you’re becoming exceedingly politically radioactive.  The Republican party has a good recruit for this race – Rev. Michel Faulkner, who I interviewed here (donation link here) – this cycle*; so there’s a chance that we can pull a Cao, assuming that Rangel manages to fight his way clear of the primary.  Which I think that he will.

Thus, it is in the best interests of the Republic that Rangel continue to burn through campaign money in order to pay his legal bills.  Not in the best interests of the Democratic party, of course – but then, the differences between the two will probably be a minor theme of this election.

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From Death Til Now appears to be sort of about Genesis, sort of about modern government conspiracy mythology (non Jew-hating edition*).  I’m liking it.  No idea yet whether there’s any Mythos involvement, so it’s less Delta Green and more Conspiracy X.

I’m liking it, thus far.

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*IE, secret government projects and investigations rather than International Zionist Conspiracies.

Epic geek FAIL.

All right you prinitive JournoList screwheads, listen up. If you’re going to reference ineffective eye protection, the quote you are looking for is, “My eyes! The goggles do nothing!”. And it’s not “it makes God cry” and “kill a puppy”. It’s “it makes the Baby Jesus cry” and “kill a kitten”. Holy crapweasel, people! If you’re going to reference hentai, can you at least do the rest of the geek world proud and square everything else away? You might as well have written “All your basses are mine” and “I can haves cheeseburg”, while you were mangling proper geek catchphrases. You lose! Good day, Sirs!

Seriously, I’m with Jimmie Bise here. I know, of course, that the majestic example that I – and Jimmie, of course – provides in the sexy, sexy niche of politics/geek blogging is going to spawn imitators and would-be acolytes.  But remember: we’re professionals.  Jimmie’s been doing this for six years and I’ve been doing it for eight.  If we make it look easy enough that it makes a bunch of Left-bloggers and journalists think that they can play at our level… well, we’re probably more or less sorry about it.

Probably.

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It’s hard to say.

On the one hand, he had to leave an airplane on extremely short notice, and while it was in the process of becoming a fireball.  On the other hand, he succeeded.

Via POWIP, which has some commentary on all of this that’s a good deal more informed than my “Yup.  That’s an exploding airplane, there.”

It is thankfully starting to look like it was not politically motivated after all:

[The ATF]  considers [Clair] Wolf a person of interest in a case in which Wolf’s sister received a bomb disguised as a box of candy. She was injured when she opened the gift-wrapped package on July 9 and it exploded, shooting nails and tacks into her face and hands.

Investigators think the bombing involved a dispute over the cleanup of property the siblings got from their parents.

I’d snark about that, except of course that somebody went to the hospital.  Besides, I’m too relieved that we’re not seeing the start of an organized bombing campaign against oil executives after all.  Not least because I’m still not confident in the government’s willingness to investigate such a thing ["They investigated it this time, didn't they, Moe?" "Hush.  Besides, it was the ATF, not the FBI." "Lame answer." "Again, hush."*]

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