Sunday Morning Reading Material (First Sunday in November. Fall back! Fall Back!)
(Scene from an San Francisco Riot)
It’s Sunday Morning. Sundays are for getting up early to clean the litter box, so that you can get to your folk’s house early in the morning, so that they can enjoy themselves while you run errands. Alternately, Sundays are for sleeping in. Alternately alternately, Sundays are for stressing out or possibly playing Eve online. Then again, it could be for shaving your legs and heading up to visit a friend.
This was a fantastic week to be a California Democrat. We increased our numbers, and sent even more elected officials to fight the good fight in DC and Sacramento. Not only that! We Democrats figured out how to fund a program that provides daycare for the kids of parents who get off welfare and get jobs. That’s the sort of scary socialism that scares the scared-y pants older folks who voted in the other 49 States. So… it was a bad week for National Democrats.
But a good week for Giants fans! Oh yes, the team of women’s underwear wearing, ironic facial hair having, misfits went down to good ol’ boy country and showed the world that excellence comes from being an outstanding human being. They did the home town proud.
You may have heard about the “riots” (see youtube Video above for what the “riot” looked like). In typical SF fashion, people were checking into said riots on Foursquare. I love this town.
When I say “good ol’ boy country”, I mean “Texas”. George W. used to own the team that San Francisco took apart. George the 3rd knows something about taking people apart. In his new book, he brags about ordering torture. Can we try him as a war criminal yet?
Bush does not care about human beings. And Kanye West is our Cassandra. If we follow that line of thought, it means that after West is murdered by a jealous someone or other, American will have a rebirth of justice. Anyway, Amanda Marcotte is in fine form. Click the link!
Michelle Malkin isn’t a racist. She just thinks that if you’re not white, there’s something illegitimate about your vote.
Nancy Pelosi is hated nationally, but got roughly 80% of the vote here in San Francisco. That makes here slightly more popular than the Giants. We San Franciscans love our misfits– espcially ones who prove they’re more capable than anyone else around. Nancy? She’s our kind of person. And that’s why she’s hated.
And Obama? What the fuck has he done so far?
Backing up a bit: speaking of dance riots, What songs ask you to perform the easiest tasks?
The post you’re reading this morning very nearly didn’t happen. Why? I was busy playing Civilization 5. I used This handy flowchart to help me break free of it’s addictive grasp.
Oh hey! We had ourselves a Halloween since last Sunday! Garland Grey looks at the mechanics of movie making to explain why the Texas Chainsaw Massacre was fantastic– and why modern horror doesn’t hold up.
I’m sort of addicted to mechanical explanations of social phenomenon. Troy Goodfellow literally wrote the book on why the “Realist” theory of foreign policy is crap. Here’s his first post on how games try and represent national character.
While we’re on the subject of mechanical explanations for things: why did the Dems do so badly? Nicholas Beaudrot thinks it’s because we’re no longer the party of white racists. Hard to argue too much with that.
I wish someone would offer a mechanical explanation for this data. I’d probably be headed for a breakup also– but I’m single. Never before been so happy about that 
Speaking of non sequiturs: the rich have it better than you and me. How much better? Prosecutors won’t press felony hit-and-run charges against a rich man, for fear that it will interferer with his job. I’ll be honest, reading this story.. I think I’m missing something. It’s worth passing on, just in case it’s true.
How can the dilemma about global warming be best dramatized? By putting various solutions into game terms, of course. Mechanics. That seems to be today’s theme.
Speaking of Global Warming: Fred Clark thinks we should have hearings. He’s convinced that the good guys can muster more evidence than the bad guys no matter how much the deck is stacked.
Let’s just declassify some shit
Maybe Nancy only got 79% of the vote: hundreds of ballots were stolen from a polling location only a few blocks from my house.
George Takei lays the smack down:
