Game Day etc

[jazzfish]

Poker with Dick Cheney: "DC: We will show you our cards after we have collected the pot. It is important that things be done in this order, otherwise the foundation of our entire poker game will be destroyed."

For laughin, the single greatest event of this guy's life. After all, if he can't handle one guy without losing his temper, how can he handle unfriendly nations?

Scare tactics in tort reform.

Fafnir on torture: "Before we get to 'Torture: Sorta Like Mowin Your Lawn' I think we should try as hard as we can to wake up."

Game Day was pretty cool. Finally got to play Saga, the last of my Origins acquisitions. It's neat, and easily worth the $7. Also played a lot of Sleuth [going to need more record sheets pretty soon] and Samurai, and Alhambra [sort of a tile-laying game crossed with a stock-market game, in which you get to do the Exact Change Dance], and Fire & Ice [two-player abstract strategy game: neat, but, well, there's go, beside which all other two-player abstract perfect-information games pale]. Also acquired a ceiling fan so that I'll no longer be bloody roasting in here.

Comments

[cxi162.livejournal.com]

Really nice Tucker. Aren't you the one who always complains about others who post comments that are unsupported by facts? Gotta love the "well, if there wasn't any glare you could see him flipping me off" image. I got a hard drive full of images like that, full of things you can't see! Nice.

[jazzfish]

Hey, you've now got as many facts as I have. What I was specifically bitching about in your case was my /not/ having all the facts that you did. I felt [and feel] that it's pretty trivial to just toss a link in there to give some context, both for readers today and for yourself should you go back and reread your journal years later.

All sources for the Kerry story I've been able to find boil down to Sampley's word against Kerry's. [All seem to originate with this NewsMax story.] And the Kerry campaign has denied it, for what that's worth.

Do I believe this one? Coming from President Who Cares What You Think, sure. Do I believe the Kerry story? Given the situation and provocation, sure. Do I think that candidates ought to remain superhumanly cool under unreasonable provocation? Not really. They're human, like everyone else.

[I do think that Vice President Go Fuck Yourself was way out of line. But that's hardly news.]

[laughin.livejournal.com]

The FU line was out of line and it WAS news everywhere I saw. Just, well, they can't quote it.

Also, I have a hard time with the 17 year old boy's story about Bush flipping him off. But hey... what do I know?

[jazzfish]

My apologies; by 'hardly news' I meant that my thinking it was way out of line wasn't going to be news. The story was indeed plastered pretty much everywhere.

Non-signatory to the F-Bomb Proliferation Treaty

[jonny-law.livejournal.com]

There's really no call for personal attacks against politicians, unless they provide things like a flimsy excuse for me to do what Star Trek geeks have been doing for years, fantasize about sex with Jeri Ryan (http://archive.salon.com/mwt/feature/2004/06/26/jack_ryan/). Even Nixon swore like a sailor, which is appropriate since he served in the Navy during WWII, but weird as he was raised a West-Coast Quaker.

There are plenty of policy reasons to dislike Bush, like his highly-profile July 4th weakening of the Endangered Species Act (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A26242-2004Jul3.html), declaring the independence of endangered species from burdensome government protection.