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I would like to see the following threats to American security report to Guantanamo Bay Prison immediately:Every employee of British Petroleum, and their agencies;Everyone connected to the Bush administration and everyone who voted for them;Everyone wh…
I’m getting back in the groove of running a regular role-playing game, and I chose a very different genre for me: a sci-fi game set in the universe of Richard K Morgan’s Altered Carbon books. I also decided to give a new system a spin: Eclipse Phase. I…
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I hate that phrase. Really hate it. It equivocates obstruction of business and loss of profit, or at worse destruction of property, with the taking of life for a political gain. I guess it’s simply a matter of perspective, and the ultimate utilitarian …
Last night I went out for dinner with a team visiting my office from Korea to a local seafood place. On the menu: oysters, crab legs, a little bit of fish, and some bread.Normally oysters are something I eat in my mom’s stuffing at Thanksgiving or Chri…
Today is the 40th Earth Day. Today, I rode the bus to work for only the second time since I’ve been back (this was not planned, it was a coincidence.)I admit that most of my efforts are token at best. I recycle, I owned a hybrid car (but now drive a fa…
Health care is not a luxury item. It is not an iPad or a BMW or a bottle of nice wine. It is not a vacation to Fiji or a seven-bedroom mansion.Health care is a utility, like sewage and sanitation, police protection, fire departments, good roads, a stro…
I’ve made a lot of mistakes in my life. Most of them are the sort of laundry I don’t care to air on this blog, but I will admit to and apologize for this one.When I was a freelance writer trying to make my name, I sold out my integrity as a movie revie…
So one of the things that Elizabeth and I found in London was a thriving locally-sourced food scene. Locally-sourced foods are great for many reasons: fewer preservatives, healthier, you know what’s in them and how they were grown, and it bolsters the …
I’ve been fairly tight-lipped about this but for good reason. The 11th was my last day at Edelman, as I accepted a new position with a gaming company. Today we announced ourselves to the world, so I can say that I work for En Masse Entertainment, an MM…
I can’t recall the presentation that made the cheeky point ‘your first social media engagement will be like your first time having sex,’ and I’m more than happy to credit it for inspiration of this post if anyone cares to point it out. The ‘awkward fir…