Archive for April, 2007
« Previous EntriesMegagaltasm
Monday, April 30th, 2007False modesty aside, I have created the greatest game ever. Great way to pass the time in school.
Megagaltastic:adj. (mega - gall’-tastik)characterized by an extensive vocabulary.
I don’t really feel like explaining the etymology here, so for some info on the origin of the word, please check out the relevant episode of The Show. Or, for non-Facebook […]
Some Good News
Monday, April 30th, 2007Let’s just get this part out of the way first. I was wrong, many other people were right: Battlestar Galactica is really, really good. I know I’m kind of late jumping on the bandwagon, but I had my reasons. Namely, when it first came out there was this sensibility about it that it wasn’t “real” […]
Penultimacies
Saturday, April 28th, 2007About the whole no updates this week thing: I’ve been very busy laying out my penultimate issue of Blue Prints. And now that I’ve got a little breathing room, I plan to spend it finishing the penultimate chapter of The Carthian, and sending out more query letters.
And while we’re on the theme here, next week […]
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Is Bush beginning to position himself so that he can give into calls for a timetable while saving some face?
That’s certainly what it looks like from the lede of this article.
NEW YORK, April 24 — President Bush said Tuesday that the verdict is still out on whether the Iraqi government can make the political changes […]
Wednesday, April 25th, 2007
Based on Ezra Klein’s professed dislike of really good books that grab you, I would like to strongly recommend that he avoid The Name of the Wind. If you can get through the first 50 pages, you’re going to be totally addicted. And considering that this is the first in a trilogy of three massive […]
Monday, April 23rd, 2007
I’m not as comics literate as I used to be - it’s a difficult habit to support in a town with no comic book shop - so it doesn’t really mean anything that I don’t recognize a lot of the titles on this list (via Fark). Some of them certainly seem interesting though, and I’ll […]
Not to be confused with the Justice League
Sunday, April 22nd, 2007For anyone who’s going to be at the Junior Statesmen’s conference in Stamford CT tomorrow, I’m going to be there taking part a little bit in former Ned Lamont for Senate deputy campaign manager John Murphy’s keynote address, along with another young volunteer from the campaign. Should be a good time.
And speaking of campaigns, I […]
Surreal Quote of the Day
Friday, April 20th, 2007“If Harry Reid believes that this war is lost, where is his plan to win this war?”- Rep. Peter Hoekstra R-MI, on Senator Harry Reid’s statement that the War in Iraq is already lost.
This is a perfect example of the downside of party discipline. The system for how a Republican rebuttal quoted in your average […]
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Friday, April 20th, 2007Hey, it’s 4/20, everyone! And you know what that means. It means that if you go to high school (and most likely, college) you’re going to have people coming up to you all day, loudly announcing the date, and then reminding you that you know what that means. I recommend blank stares in response.
Get ready […]
Thursday, April 19th, 2007
It looks like there wasn’t a whole lot of new information in Gonzales’ testimony this morning. Once again, he’s denied that the federal prosecutors were fired for political reasons, and once again he has completely failed to provide another plausible explanation.
At this point, there’s only one possible explanation for all of this. Gonzales is refusing […]