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Thursday, September 2nd, 2004
7:31 pm	Heading out of town ahead of Frances. Be back next week. Be on-line when I get power. (Comment on this)
Wednesday, September 1st, 2004
3:30 pm	DAMMIT!! (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Saturday, August 28th, 2004
2:09 am	"He was right." (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 26th, 2004
1:55 pm	Ha-ha! Now and then, Marks still sees customers who once believed that Beanie Babies would pay for their kids' college educations. When they ask him what to do with their collections, he offers this advice: "They make great insulation if you stick them in the walls." (Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 24th, 2004
5:10 pm	NCsoft announced today that the upcoming City of Villains -- an evil-doing expansion to the popular City of Heroes MMORPG -- will now benefit from two RPG veterans as part of the Cryptic Studios development team. Dave "Zeb" Cook will join as senior designer for the project. Cook brings 25 years of game design experience, including 15 years working for TSR, Inc. of Dungeons & Dragons fame. Cook is known for designing the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons 2nd Edition Dungeon Master's Handbook as well as the creation of the pen-and-paper Planescape game. Shane Hensley, creator of the Deadlands RPG, has signed on as a senior writer for City of Villains. Hensley has contributed to various computer and board games, game guides, and novels, and has worked for companies like TSR, West End Games, SSI, and FASA. His novels have been published by Harper Collins and White Wolf Studios. (Comment on this)
12:40 pm	Do ya think those protestors at the Kerry events get their flip-flops from the Bush White House? "I believe individual freedom to participate in elections should be expanded, not diminished; and when individual freedoms are restricted, questions arise under the First Amendment. I also have reservations about the constitutionality of the broad ban on issue advertising, which restrains the speech of a wide variety of groups on issues of public import in the months closest to an election. I expect that the courts will resolve these legitimate legal questions as appropriate under the law. [...] Individuals have a right not to have their money spent in support of candidates or causes with which they disagree, and those rights should be better protected by law. I hope that in the future the Congress and I can work together to remedy this defect of the current financing structure." President George W. Bush March 27, 2002 on signing law H.R. 2356, the "Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002." ----------------------------- "Speaking to reporters at his Texas ranch, Bush said he has repeatedly condemned 527 ads. These groups are named for the federal provision that makes such organizations tax exempt and allows them to accept unlimited donations. One reporter cited the swift boat ads and asked, "When you say that you want to stop all --" "All of them," Bush responded. "That means that ad, every other ad. Absolutely. I don't think we ought to have 527s." [...] Bush said "unregulated soft money" of 527 groups "is wrong for the process." The president said he "thought we'd gotten rid of that" when he signed the McCain-Feingold legislation instituting campaign finance reform." CNN August 23, 2004 (Comment on this)
Monday, August 23rd, 2004
2:06 pm	I'm told that there are so many bad drivers in Florida because so many of them learned to drive in New York. Apparently, they learned to vote in Chicago. (Comment on this)
Thursday, August 19th, 2004
9:56 pm	Besides finding a copy of the play, detectives said, they discovered some of the threatening e-mails on a computer. In one, Steen wrote, "Sure, my last e-mail seemed crazy, but the Grinch has driven me to this madness," according to police. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Tuesday, August 17th, 2004
11:22 pm	Okay, so the power's finally back on... Like a fool, I went outside during the height of the hurricane. We're on the leeward side of the building, so I figured it was sort of safe, even though the passageway that bisects the building was literally a wind tunnel. Here's what I learned - That thing wasn't natural, friends. That thing was some kind of beast out there. Or several. It didn't sound like wind, it sounded like wolves. Or Godzilla. Or Godzilla-wolves. Those were the sounds that Lovecraft heard in his nightmares. I'm not staying here the next time one of those things blows this way. (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Friday, August 13th, 2004
8:53 am	Can you dig it? (2 Comments |Comment on this)
Thursday, August 12th, 2004
3:34 pm	Motherpusbucket. One month to the day after we arrived in this purgatory of sunshine, there's a freaking hurricane bearing down on us. (Comment on this)
Monday, August 9th, 2004
6:47 pm	I gotta get me one of these... (Snagged from Boing Boing) (Comment on this)
5:04 pm	"Oh no, it wasn't the airplanes. It was beauty killed the beast." (Comment on this)
5:47 am	Police: Xbox Theft Spurred Fla. Slayings Welcome to Florida, huh? (Comment on this)
Saturday, August 7th, 2004
3:31 pm	One thing in Florida's favor - we get Galavision here, so even though I don't speak the language, I get two hours of lucha libre every Saturday afternoon. Just got done watching a 20-minute trios match as good as anything that the WWE puts together... ...and it featured midgets. Two midget headhunters, one midget power ranger, one mini-Mexican wrestler, one mini-matador, and one midget ninja. Bueno! (8 Comments |Comment on this)
2:26 am	"I deeply resent the destruction of federalism represented by Hillary Clinton's willingness to go into a state she doesn't even live in and pretend to represent people there. So I certainly wouldn't imitate it." - Allan Keyes Maryland resident 2000 Source: Keyes to Run Against Obama in Ill. (Comment on this)
Friday, August 6th, 2004
2:49 pm	In politics, you expect for there to be some hired guns involved in the process. What you don't expect is for them to have been hired 30 years ago... by NIXON! Richard Milhouse Nixon: Dead For A Decade - Still Haunting Us. (Comment on this)
Friday, July 30th, 2004
8:08 pm	Why isn't Kolchak: The Night Stalker out on DVD? For that matter, why didn't it run for eight seasons? (Comment on this)
Wednesday, July 28th, 2004
8:25 pm	They're makin' a list, and checkin' it twice... (Comment on this)
Tuesday, July 20th, 2004
10:47 am	Of course, I can't disagree with The Onion's take on history either... (Comment on this)