"The Popes, of course, were usually Catholic."

I'm laughing so hard at this mock_the_stupid post, I can barely breathe!

"History," declared Henry Ford, "is bunk." And yet, to paraphrase George Santayana, those who forget history and the English language are condemned to mangle them. Historian Anders Henriksson, a veteran of the university classroom, has faithfully recorded, from papers submitted by freshmen at McMaster University and the University of Alberta, his students' more striking insights into European history from the Middle Ages to the present. Possibly as an act of vengeance, Professor Henriksson has now assembled these individual fragments into a chronological narrative that we present here.

Read, and enjoy!

So...

Who on my flist is going to be at Baycon this weekend?

My usual disclaimer. My illness and years of mis-prescribed anti-convulsants have ruined my memory. I may not remember you on first sight, especially if your someone I only see infrequently. I am terrible at names. I will sometimes disconnect who you are really from who you are on LJ. Please be patient, it's frustrating for me too.

That being said, anybody up for a one-shot GURPS or Champions game at the con?

It's that time again!

BEAT LA
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!
BEAT LA!

Well, shit.

I didn't get the PCO job.

What the hell do I have to do? I made the first interview, and the second was mainly about my availability, which is pretty much unlimited.

*sigh*

I need to figure out how to get back into school and get a degree in something.

But tonight, I drink beer. Because while it isn't a solution, getting toasted will stop me from throwing shit through the windows.

We told you so, Part XVII

French fries protester regrets war jibe

It was a culinary rebuke that echoed around the world, heightening the sense of tension between Washington and Paris in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq. But now the US politician who led the campaign to change the name of french fries to "freedom fries" has turned against the war.

Walter Jones, the Republican congressman for North Carolina who was also the brains behind french toast becoming freedom toast in Capitol Hill restaurants, told a local newspaper the US went to war "with no justification".

Nice to see more scales fall from eyes.