2009-01-22

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2009-01-22 03:37 pm

Political Thought #1

Choosing to put the fascist Japanese flag (the rising sun w/ rays) on your bookbag? Bad fashion choice.
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2009-01-22 03:40 pm

Political Thought #2

One of the big arguments floated to justify the War on Terror shenanigans is "what you don't understand is that these people want to kill us!"

Maybe this comes from being a jew, but I go through life assuming that there are lots of people who want to kill me at any given time. Like, right now, I could travel to backwoods Idaho and find a whole bunch of them.

Fortunately for me, they generally lack the means to kill me. That's really the issue.

Why should it matter to me if someone around the world wants to kill me? Is that really particularly surprising, unsettling, or meriting of further thought? Why should I change my life because of it?
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2009-01-22 03:56 pm

Making Things

The first five people to respond to this post will get something made by me! My choice. For you.

This offer does have some restrictions and limitations:
1) I make no guarantees that you will like what I make;
2) It'll be done this year;
3) You have no clue what it's going to be. It could be anything but it will almost certainly be a game or piece of fictional writing
and
4) I will probably make something extremely odd.

If you post, you must agree to only spread this sort of "meme" if you actually want to, rather than paying attention to the instructions for spreading.

Edit: And we're done.

You can still post if you like, but no promises.