U.S. Senate Okays The Torture and Unlimited, Unquestioned Detention act
Of course, that wasn't the official title of the bill. It's just what the bill actually does.
- CharleyCarp's What To Do?, a eye level view of what we've done, and that we must go on.
- Hilzoy Struggles and finds resolve, concluding
Besides, as my grandmother always said: it is not worthy of humanity to give up. To which I would add: not that there aren't times when it's really, really tempting.
- Katherine's Juxtaposition reminds us about specific prisoners, the supposed "worst of the worst".
- Katherine is also participating in the Guantanamo Bay Teach in (schedule).
- Jim Henley's: We Knocked Em All Dead, Babe, Then We Brought It All Back Home is about his belief that the Democrats have signed their death warrant, doomed themselves to "Republican Lite" charges forevermore.
- Glenn Greenwald's analysis is bleak but honest. There is no point in trying to glorify the conduct of Democrats, but another two years of absolute power would worsen the country in every way. How the sausage was made.
- Lawyers, Guns, and Money return with Responsibility Where It Belongs and The Torture Party: A Summary
- Kameron Hurley points out that heresay is enough to convict you, with no possible judicial review, under this statute.
After Action: Monday Sept. 25th
We gathered a different group tonight; Emily and Jennifer D were able to show, since I wasn't scheduling against their classes. Unfortunately, Jerret and Dad were both feeling ill, so they weren't able to make it. My Jennifer was much peppier and joined us for the first couple of games.
We started with a game of Killer Bunnies. After mighy struggles, a micro black hole and other warfare, Jennifer D had the magic carrot.
Then we moved on to Medici. I did pretty well on the first day of trading; on the second Emily and I both crossed 100. The game wound up ending much closer than it looked after the first couple of rounds-- I think we each finished between 120 and 145, with Emily the victor.
We finished up with a fun game of Fluxx-- after some play and a lot of resets and low draw rates, Ben finally pushed himself and me to victory with the goal 5 Keepers.
Next Game: September 29th
An invasion of family will keep us occupied this weekend, so we're looking forward to Friday the 29th for our next get together. The Dragons Talons exploits will be updated in their log, hopefully soonish.
Let us know if you have any problem with the 29th or anything else.
Next Game: September 15th or 16th
We're ready to schedule our next game. We can either play Friday, but Jennifer will probably miss part of the session, or we can try to schedule Saturday (which conflicts with the Bulldogs game, which starts at 3:30 this week). Unless we try Saturday evening... would starting at 6:30 or 7pm be late enough for the game to be over? I wouldn't want to start too much later than that, unless everyone's going to be very well rested...
Can we make Saturday work, or is Friday the only real choice this week?
(2 sidenotes: Here's a game log, much like the one we kept for Star Wars. Add to it and shape as you like.
Also, I turned off typekey registration-- hopefully, that'll make it easier to comment.)
After Action: September 6th
We had a short crew tonight, but got in a couple of fun games. We also got to enjoy Jerret's birthday and some Chinese food, so it was a merry night indeed.
We started with Ticket to Ride Europe. We started out with most of us (Jennifer, me, and Jerret) building in France and West Germany, with Dad hiding out in Russia. Our paths tangled a bit but diverged pretty quickly; I headed north to Sweden, Jerret headed north to Edinburough, Jennifer headed into the Alps, and Dad expanded to the west.
After Action: September 4th
Zach was in town, so we got together and had a big day of gaming. It was a lot of fun-- we pulled out a lot of pointed competition games. The antagonism around the table was fun...
We began with Web of Power. Zach, Dad, and I hadn't played in a long time, while this was Jerret's first time. The first game was hard fought, but Zach's advisors really bailed him out in the final count-- he rose from last to first on their strength. Even so, the final scores were pretty close.
After Action August 30th
This was a short night-- real life clipped both ends short. We got in a game of Ticket to Ride and a couple of quick games of For Sale.
Ticket started out with Ben and Jennifer springing from Denver, heading south and east from there. I had Pheonix-Portland and Salt Lake-Calgary, so I ran a strange route: Pheonix-Denver-Helena-SLC-Portland-Seattle-Calgary. Everyone looked at me very strangely for that route...