much too much too little

[jazzfish]

The Importance of Being Politically Correct: "[Tolerance is] about attempting to understand people who are radically different from you, and saying to them you want their voice in the process. . . . The conservative movement has never gotten 'tolerance.' They think tolerance is something you do as a favor for someone else, that it's a slogan, that it involves appointing a showman who employs ancient slang. They don't understand. Tolerance is about warfare-- it makes your army bigger than the other guy's army."

(As a side note, every time I hear or read the phrase "politically incorrect," I mentally replace it with "being an asshole," because that's more honest. More "politically incorrect," if you will.)

The Bobblespeak Translations: Obama Press Conference, June 23, 2009:

Q: what took you so long to express your meaningless outrage about an election in a far-off country where we have a history of illegal interference?

Obama: because I'm not a total dumbass and didn't want to give the Iranian government ammunition!

Q: that's Reagan's job

Obama: exactly!

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The problem with this whole "posting more" thing is that then I get comments, many of which are quite intelligent and thus take time to craft responses to. (Also, my sacks of gold are so heavy!) I will, however, get there. Today, even.

And we leave for Origins this afternoon. I'm less excited about Origins this year than ever before. It's kind of odd. Partly this is a disillusionment with board gaming (that's its own post: tl;dr is that it's not feeding my social needs as well as it used to), and partly it's that I've been travelling more so it's not as huge a trip. And partly that some of the people I'd been hoping to see won't be there. But, I'll see rislyn and Good Chris and J. and various Looney folk. So that'll be alright.

Comments

[jsciv.livejournal.com]

I had planned on Origins again this year after having so much fun last year, but as you know the whole "take Mom to London" thing came up and had its way with my vacation time. But I'm definitely keeping it on the radar for next year.

In the meantime have a lot of fun, say hello to anyone that I know, and play some good games. :)

(side note: I'll be interested to read your tl;dr post as I've gone through periods of the same, although right now for me it's a good time)

[jazzfish]

You know, ten (!) years ago I got an email from Andy Looney saying "so this guy we know was going to run the Fluxx tournament but he's going to London instead, you interested?" Must be something about the city. Hope to see you next year!

The tl;dr will be up sometime this week; it's third after 'origins report' and 'more on ceremony/ritual.'