Crouching Senator, Hidden Republican

Not a surprise, really. I wasn’t exactly ecstatic when he went with the Democrats last year, but now all this says about Joe Lieberman is that he’s not listening to or representing his constituents – instead, he’s listening only to himself talk. He’s doing whatever it takes to keep Joe Lieberman on the news or [...]

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The Slow Withdraw from Iraq

More fighting erupts in Iraq this week as the US struggles to contain the influx of insurgents. Everything was fine going in, but coming back out, militants fired on US soldiers. We know the body count of the militants, but nothing’s been released on the coalition side.
The hardest part of this entire conflict is that [...]

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Nutjobs Abound!

blogs4brownback has lost their top position as Classical Crackhead Nutjobs of 2007. How, you may ask?
You may have heard about Fred Thompson being hazed at a press conference the other day. Well, it appears that a group called, “Houston for the 9/11 Truth,” has claimed responsibility. After perusing their blog … thing … it is [...]

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What Does This Say About The US

When we can’t even get along with our allies? Worst of all, our intelligence network will suffer for the next twenty to thirty years because of it.
The present Administration says that legal Congressional actions are “pathetic” in their eyes. Well, I guess I have to believe them, since the present Administration is living proof of [...]

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Uncharted Space (WorldWork Games)

So it’s finally finished and available for purchase.
As you can see in this image, Denny Unger put together a lot of great ideas to manufacture a DIY gaming mat for space games. It’s rather large, with and without 1″ hexes, and comes with several interesting space backgrounds. One nice touch is that he included asteroids [...]

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Diplomacy

After Iran and the US exchanged some heated words between each other over what’s going on in Iraq, it’s back to the Middle East for Condi Rice. I never really understood why we think it’s a good idea to send a woman over to conduct diplomacy in countries where women aren’t usually allowed to show [...]

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Prep for all you WorldWorks Games fans

Uncharted Space is just around the corner, followed by Wormhole: Sathricans.
Note to all my loyal readers: I have been playtesting Wormhome, and it’s a fun, easy-to-construct set. On top of beautiful ship models and props, there’s a ruleset written by Bob Cooper.
When more managable sized images are available, I will post them here. But keep [...]

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About Yesterday

I said the Pentagon conducted a few war game exercises and surveys that disproved the Administration’s fears of Iran or Al-Q taking over Iraq if the US was forced to withdraw. Well, you no longer have to take it from me, you can read about it here.
Don’t get me wrong – I like Major General [...]

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Am Tired Will Rite Tomoroe

It’s how I feel today. Work sucks. Too much werk, not enough fun.
I mean, all that happened was that the Pentagon said Hillary Clinton was a threat to national security for using her First Amendment rights in talking about her opinion about Iraq and troop withdraws, then the Pentagon war games turned out only to [...]

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