April 2012
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Here's how the house I'm staying in was built:
“Say, this house is pretty nice.”
“Thanks!”
“But I’m having problems with the doors.”
“The doors?”
“Yeah.”
“What’s the problem?”
“I was wondering. Could you make the doors the loudest doors in the universe?”
“I don’t follow.”
“Like, if it’s one in the morning and...
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A Happy Hello from the American Legislative...
“I knew [Wisconsin union cuts, including schools] would be controversial. I just didn’t know the lengths that the unions would go to to retain their power. Their hyperbole about Republicans wanting to hurt children has hurt them, and made it hard to have a rational discussion. Nobody wanted to cut funding for schools. I felt really bad about it. But, when the only other option is...
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People have been pestering me to try 'Game of...
saying that it’s really smart and unique and doesn’t feature a lot of the nasty bits of fantasy fiction.
And I gotta hand it to them, apart from the kings and castles, swords and sigils, bastards and dwarves, poison and plotters, dragon eggs, snow people, the implied pedophiliac incest, the pedophiliac rape and the grown-up incest, they’re absolutely right.
Hope episode two...
