...I'm still not sure I get it, though.

Currently my first choice in '08 is Cthulhu, why vote for a lesser evil?

On and U?

There's just got to be a good punchline to this.

maybe a good taint punch-line.

It's amazing what you can do with mirrors.

And a good foundation.

I miss the days when you just voted for whoever was tallest.

I fell out of my chair, laughing.

Steve Jackson Games (designers of GURPS, Ogre, Car Wars, Assassin and other classics) used to have a bumper sticker:

'Cthulu Saves'

Being from points north of the 49th parallel, where people are a bit less expressive, it took me a bit of time to get that one.

Which one of those two *is* taller?

I'm not sure Ron Paul is any crazier than Guliani, though he's less polished, and not having gone to Shayol Ghul to give oaths to the Dark One, he has no chance of getting the Republican nomination.

That alone tells you a lot about the rest of their pro-torture, anti-Enlightenment pack of screwballs.

Though I'm certainly willing to listen to RuPaul's platform. Or to check out her platform shoes.

Before trying that particular experiment, it would be good to first confirm that they aren't anti-particles of each other. For safety's sake at least.

You didn't recognize that? That guy wanders the highways and byways of the political blogosphere, plugging his self-published (iUniverse) conspiracy theory book, claiming that the government censors are right on the verge of banning it from Amazon.

It's an internet phenomenon. Collect the whole set.

http://www.daveexmachina.com/wordpress/?p=2020

Does our Lord get a saving roll then? Blew it on Calvary Hill, methinks.

There is an important difference between Republicans and Democrats.

The one has an agenda, and have, step by step been advancing it since at least 1980. Look at where the public is on Estate Taxes, or on abortion, compared to the situation in 1980. Or income tax rates in general. Note the progress of universal healthcare in the US since that time. Or the environmental movement. The US had 8 years in which a president named Clinton practiced a particularly moderate form of Republicanism, but otherwise it's been a clean sweep at the presidential level, and to a greater or lesser extent at the legislative level.

Social Security, with a manufactured 'crisis', is next.

Was it credible, in 1980, that the US would again attack a country on a pretext?-- I mean at least in the Tonkin Gulf there was evidence the other guy had fired on the US destroyers. Now having conducted one such war, the US is on the point of conducting the second, cheered on loudly by *Democratic* presidential candidates.

In 1979-80 the US president talked about serious energy conservation measures, and about Israel trading land for peace. What US president has taken either stance since?

The other party has no discernible agenda, other than to try to hold ground against the right wing party. Sorry, I mean they have the 'gay agenda'.

In one of her weekly rants about the evils of pop culture, one of my high school religion teachers decided to talk about sex in the advertisement media.

She whipped up the single most offensive cheesecake image of fleshly, sexy posingness that she could find. She pulled it out to show it to the class and ranted profusely about the way this was promoting negative body images of women, and violence against women, and society is evil, and we must burn *BURN* this magazine should we find it for this imagery.

One of the students interrupted her long enough to point out that the model was RuPaul.

It took a few minutes to explain why that was an important detail, but with ears deeply reddened, the teacher quietly put away the picture without any more ranting, and a befuddled look on her face.

Her world was *changed* that day.

True story, and off to church I go!

Waddaya mean, the crazy racist? The craziest, maybe, but they're all crazy racists.

And, who's Jim? I'm J M. (or Joe.)

I will pray for your keyboards and T-shirts, fellow readers. But, do please pray for mine.

Does our Lord get a saving roll then? Blew it on Calvary Hill, methinks.

One can usually choose to fail a saving throw. So He saved by failing to save.

And come I think of it, I suspect RuPaul is also dedicated to abolishing our Federal Reserve. It's not like he has any.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him high heels.

You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool the ones that feel you up.

People are just as gay as they make up their minds to be.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason I'm sooo bad.

"We're all born naked. Everything else is drag."

Actually I'm not 100% sure that is from RuPaul. But I've never heard it attributed to anyone else.

Looking hard at those two photographs, I seem to detect a faint similarity in bone structure. Do you think they could be distant cousins?

Waddaya mean, the crazy racist? The craziest, maybe, but they're all crazy racists.

Do you mean, all racists are crazy, or all of the Republican candidates are crazy racists, or...?

And on what evidence? I've heard particular Republicans accused of racism before on grounds that turned out to be pretty flimsy.

Hell, I'd vote for RuPaul. Subsidized heels and lipstick for all!

Simple cheat sheet: Moon writes military sf (mostly--there's a few exceptions), Hand writes horror in a fairly literary way, and Bear writes anything that comes into her head: vampires, post-cyberpunk, faerie, and I think I lost track.

Or maybe it was beers.

Whatever.

No, no, that's hier, hier.