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At the risk of sounding like a luddite
Aug. 18th, 2011 03:33 pmAll online voting does is increase the odds of American-style voting fraud. Paper ballots are easy enough to count quickly and are subject to reliable verification.
Aug. 18th, 2011
Aqua has a new studio album out next month.
Pass the popcorn
Aug. 18th, 2011 06:48 pmSteel cage match: Publish America versus JK Rowling: WHO! WILL! WIN!
So we took a break from Icons (for which I owe a write-up of an episode) to start what is supposed to be a two-part ToC. We have been strongly advised not to get too attached to these characters. For ease of starting, we all took one of the pregenerated characters:
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"an age of killer anarchy"
Aug. 18th, 2011 11:20 pm
Expectations for the new century were bleak even before the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and their bloody aftermath: Political scientist James G. Blight and former U.S. Defense Secretary Robert McNamara suggested earlier that year that we could look forward to an average of 3 million war deaths per year worldwide in the 21st century.