Achilles

Not sure if you'd seen this already. Thought you might appreciate the irony.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/05/yes.php?ref=fpblg

United States of Amnesia

Don't worry, tomorrow he will either retract his statement or otherwise indicate that what he said has been misinterpreted. Maybe he's trying to establish his GOP bona fides by exemplifying Reagan. Post-Alzheimer's diagnosis Reagan, but Reagan nonetheless.

I realize that we're still a year out from the end of primary season, but I'm wondering when the GOP is going to put forth their legit candidates. I feel like I'm watching clowns piling out of a car to put out a fire or something.

First Zoolander ruins Wham for me, now this guy does the same for George Michael. My 80's childhood has been tarnished forever.

I was a good boy and went to bed early. Big day today and I didn't want to be groggy.

Sleep or play FO:NV? I hate having to decide.

If this were satire, it would be the greatest thing since Republican Space Rangers.

Why, oh why, couldn't this be satire?

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/mike-huckabee-fixes-american-history-video.php?ref=fpblg

"if he show up at the local junior college and two students are shooting at each other how does he know which one to take out"

The one that doesn't drop their weapon after he shouts "DROP YOUR WEAPON!"

Maybe the school can help to offset the cost by offering CCW courses on-campus (your state does require a license for CCW, right?)

Great moments in being a douche-bag: Whilst writing a cover letter espousing my great attention to detail, I misspell a word, and then don't notice until after it's sent.

Since the guy that proofread it for me didn't notice either, I'm hoping that the recipient will miss it as well. Hooray for humility!

My father, the career cop, is endorsing this right now.

*starts building FO:NV character sheets with revised level cap of 50*

That teacher got canned.

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2011/05/sayonara.php?ref=fpblg

Trying to pick up the two remaining achievements for FO:NV now and then start a new character for Honest Hearts (going Cowboy again). Not sure what's going to happen with TW2. Kinda excited about it, but blase about finishing TW1 so that I can import a character. Feel bad about abandoning my NWN2 character too.

Dude, nice hat.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/tea-party-leader-well-take-the-debt-ceiling-hike-if-you-bring-back-dadt.php?ref=fpi

I'm completely confused as to what I'm playing right now. I'm in Chapter II of The Witcher, 3/4 of the way through Act I in NWN2, level 12 of a new character in FO:NV, and I reinstalled Morrowind this weekend. Need to focus!

TWII comes out in 8 days, as does the new FO:NV DLC.

We should make this guy U.S. Ambassador to Everywhere.

I did. Spoilers usually don't spoil things to much for me as I'm generally more concerned about how a plot point is executed than I am with the plot point itself (I blame several years of movie trailers that give away the plot twist for this). And let's be honest, it's not as though we didn't see a lot of this coming. As soon as I noticed that Saren and TIM had similar eyes, I expected that something like this would happen. The husks are an interesting twist. If they want to impress me, they'll throw in a flashback to the annihilation of the Protheans (how they almost made it and then failed; making the Collectors more sympathetic).

Tell them all that there's an autographed copy of The Fountainhead at the bottom of the Boston Harbor and let nature take it's course?

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/poll-only-one-third-of-arizonans-approve-of-mccains-job-performance.php?ref=fpi

Good news is that maybe John McCain will either not run for re-election or lose if he does run. The bad news is that he'll probably be replaced with some tea party whack-job.

Remember what I said about pre-ordering ME3, paying full price for it, and playing it right when it comes out?

Yeah...guess what...

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-05-04-mass-effect-3-tweaked-for-larger-market

Another awesome point that will be completely ignored by the target audience:

"How many more gay people does God have to create before we ask ourselves whether or not God actually wants them around?"

http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110504/us_yblog_thelookout/minnesota-lawmakers-gay-marriage-defense-goes-viral

After seeing Waiting for Superman, I'm no longer a fan of tenure.

EDIT: Also, tenure is generally awarded after 2 years. Are your teacher friends relatively new to the school system or have they been around a while?

If he's tenured, then he probably knows that he can't be fired. Wonder what else he's done that we haven't heard about.

HA HA! Texas - 3, Arizona 2

...thousand.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/05/tx-teacher-suspended-after-telling-muslim-student-i-bet-youre-grieving.php?ref=fpblg