The Last Ephor

I Am A: Neutral Good Human Fighter (4th Level) Ability Scores: Strength- 13 Dexterity- 14 Constitution- 14 Intelligence- 16 Wisdom- 15 Charisma- 14 Alignment: Neutral Good A neutral good character does the best that a good person can do. He is devoted to helping others. He works with kings and magistrates but does not feel beholden to them. Neutral good is the best alignment you can be because it means doing what is good without bias for or against order. However, neutral good can be a dangerous alignment because it advances mediocrity by limiting the actions of the truly capable. Race: Humans are the most adaptable of the common races. Short generations and a penchant for migration and conquest have made them physically diverse as well. Humans are often unorthodox in their dress, sporting unusual hairstyles, fanciful clothes, tattoos, and the like. Class: Fighters can be many things, from soldiers to criminal enforcers. Some see adventure as a way to get rich, while others use the...

THIEVES MARKET The east end of United Nations Plaza is a black market to buy something smash-and-grabbed through a car window or shoplifted from a local store.

Remember this post well, The Anchoress gets to the heart of the matter in a single sentence: “ Black” America is forced to live a psychic duality, but in a way, “white” America is, too. We are supposed to - apparently - somehow split our brains, into never even noticing that there are racial differences between us, unless we’re working in praise of those differences. So, there are no differences between us…but we celebrate the differences…but their are none, and if you think there are, you’re a racist. Now celebrate ! Read the whole thing. The opening story is absolutely heartbreaking.

My Privileges A very interesting meme. From What Privileges Do You Have?, based on an exercise about class and privilege developed by Will Barratt, Meagan Cahill, Angie Carlen, Minnette Huck, Drew Lurker, Stacy Ploskonka at Illinois State University. If you participate in this blog game, they ask that you PLEASE acknowledge their copyright. Bold the true statements. 1. Father went to college 2. Father finished college 3. Mother went to college 4. Mother finished college 5. Have any relative who is an attorney, physician, or professor. 6. Were the same or higher class than your high school teachers. 7. Had more than 50 books in your childhood home. 8. Had more than 500 books in your childhood home. 9. Were read children’s books by a parent 10. Had lessons of any kind before you turned 18 11. Had more than two kinds of lessons before you turned 18 12. The people in the media who dress and talk like me are portrayed positively 13. Had a credit card with your name on it before you turned 1...

I work from home quite often (like today) and there are some things you hear at home you just don't hear when you're at the office. Example: I'm sitting at my desk. I face the windows and have my back to the door. I hear the door open and little footsteps enter the room. "Dad? You wanna know why I'm naked?"

A few things here. I certainly understand his preaching about the plight of poor blacks in America. But...(you knew that was coming didn't you?) I have never and would never attend a church that was so political. The closest thing I've ever experienced was when our priest told people to read and vote on a particular bill. He did not tell them how to vote just to please read the bill and vote on it. The rest, he assumed, would be obvious. Just as I'd flee any church flogging Barack Obama I would similarly leave in disgust at any church pushing any Republican or Libertarian candidate no matter how much I supported them. I've never been comfortable with the shouting, sweating preacher. Whenever I see the videos of the shouting, sweating Imams it gives me a shudder. I see a wild eyed zealot. I imagine if someone in Iraq were watching Rev. Wrong Wright shouting and sweating in a language he didn't understand it might give him pause as well. I understand that...

Dick Morris declares; "Wright's Rantings Won't Sink Obama" Which can mean only one thing: Wright's Rantings will sink Obama. Best quote on DC vs. Heller: "Although I enjoy making sport of the Justices as much as anyone, the question of whether the 2nd Amendment protects an individual right, including a right to self defense, is not that difficult, at least to me. The framers of the 14th amendment assumed that it was one of the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States. And if a right is a privilege or immunity of citizens of the United States, it hard for me to conclude that it does not bind the United States as well as the individual states. Now, as a unreconstructed liberal (I'll show you pictures of my bleeding heart), I don't particularly like this result. But it follows sufficiently strongly from other commitments I have about the Constitution that I must accept it. Global Warmening (TM) is real. Except for the part about th...

Happy St. Patrick's Day Wishing I was here Listening to these guys Drinking one of these Things and people to think about today: