I like CEREBUS, though I've only read through Book 4 (mostly due to laziness in tracking down the rest; partially because I've heard it goes Bad somewhere down the line, and Cerebus fans don't agree exactly where). Goes from being a Conan parody to a lot of social, political and religious satire, with beautiful art and layouts. Then Dave Sim goes mad, but not in the first 4 books.
Running back through:
Unless Edwards is in the running by the time the Illinois primary runs around, I'll probably vote for Paul in the Republican primary (if Obama is still alive, he'll win the state easily in any case).
As it stands, I fully expect to have a choice between a batshit lunatic Republican committed to batshit lunatic aggression in the Middle East and domestic surveillance, and a sensible, moderate Democrat committed to sensible, moderate aggression and surveillance, plus a side order of health care reform and maybe even useful action on global warming. In which case, go Team Blue!
But I really would like to have the chance for once in my life to vote for "no aggression, please".
Oh, and AJ at 95: try saying that again with close friends in the Middle East.
Okay, I would probably vote for Ron Paul in a federal election against Clinton, Obama and maybe John Edwards. I'd do that knowing that a Paul presidency would involve another 4-8 years of foot-dragging on global warming, health care reform, and even, god help me, a fifth "pro-life" Supreme Court justice. I'd do it because I think Paul is the only candidate with any imaginable shot in either party (it's an obvious long shot in the Republican party, but not completely impossible in the way Kucinich or Gravel are impossible) who is at all likely to try and roll back the security state (composed of interventionist foreign policy, domestic surveillance, government secrecy, and the war on some drugs), as opposed to merely slowing its growth. I don't expect to have to bite this bullet, as I fully expect the Republicans to nominate a wanna-be tyrant like Giuliani, but if it came down to it, I would.
(Part of the reason for this is that he obviously wouldn't be able to go to the gold standard, or abolish social security or medicare, or any number of other things he'd like to do. But he would be able to set military policy immediately, and affect at least federal law enforcement as well.)
I just remembered this hitherby dragons sequence:
The legend of perfectly defensive samurai:
Parts I II III IV V VI
(Hope this doesn't get eaten by the spamcatcher for excessive linkage)
Re: 119: the council of Lr0nD needs a slight edit (in bold):
Lr0nD: i can has council
80r0mr: gndr can has ring?
6&lf: stfu n00b
6&lf: ring is teh bad.
Lr0nD: go break ring b4 we get pwned
phr0d0: kbye
Also: this.
The juxtaposition of comments 8 and 9 was kind of amusing.
24 - Ah, "Satellite". Having spent the last six months working on a magazine covering satellite broadcasting, I still had to ask Mr. Gates whether it's spelled right almost every time.
But proofing a magazine with a lot of Arabic names is its own kind of fun. Is it spelled "hizbullah", "hezbollah", or "hezballah"? How is the Libyan president's name spelled again?
Wow. I was going to get all snarky and note the typo in "restaurateur", leaving out the N before the -teur, but I figured I ought to ask the internet first.
I did not know that that word was spelled that way.
Scored all-male, except for a short livejournal post that might have been less than 500 words anyway.
Including one long interview with a woman, which I guess I technically wrote, but in which most of the WORDS were of female origin.
13 - after all these years, odds are it's dead of old age if not of mistreatment.
Fregano #118: It's possible he's an entire kingdom unto himself.
Bryan, you are a genus.
I took the liberties of excerpting a "good parts" version of this thread (recognizing that the knitting stuff is also a "good parts" part, but not for me) on my livejournal.
#25: re: getting lucky - I was wondering if the proposed mechanism was by taking advantage of emotionally vulnerable authors and/or fans.
Michael Palin's various travelogues are good fun.
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* Never throw out the other person's head.
* Keep away from fire.
* Inspite of it is non-toxic, it cannot be eaten.
* Never pull out tounge of frog hard, as it might be separated.
* Its content has the oil, so if it touches on cloth, precious object or wall, the stains will remain if you don't care about it.
* Never put on surface of any object, shall keep in polybag.
Joe - the people who will see it on the internet aren't their target audience anyway.
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