Flesh and Blood

[tracker7]

Squadrons is a very pretty game and I am terrible at it and I do not care. The ships feel and fly like I would have expected - good lord, I do love the X-Wing. It's good stuff.

I'm having a heck of a good time in Alan K's M&M game. For way too long, I've had the idea of Harry Walsh escaping the destruction of his world and finding a new life (and fight) in a more supers-populated one, and now it's happening and it is a blast. His new friends don't know if he's actually from another world or if he's just bugnuts crazy or some mix of the two. Whichever, he's sure that he's in Freedom City to keep fighting evil and stake vampires and learn everything he can. I don't know how long Alan's going to keep this going, but I'm in it for the duration.

I'm reading Nelson DeMille's The General's Daughter. Never saw the movie, and probably will a while after finishing the read. It's damned good writing, and I'm enjoying both the procedural side and the very good character drama.

Yesterday, the FBI arrested a bunch of militia jerks up in Michigan for plotting to kidnap the state's governor, put her on trial for ... something, very probably execute her, then overthrow the state government and establish a new one, based on some very questionable reading of the US Constitution. Good thing they were all white people - otherwise, we might have a terrorism case here.

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[atolnon]

Jesus. Yeah, I read about those guys. I'm glad they were inept because, damn.

[tracker7]

Seriously. A few months ago, some of our local gunfondlers hung an effigy of our Governor from a tree at the state Capitol. Amazing what having pictures of your participation in such a thing sent to an employer can do to your career.

[tegyrius]

Ah, the Michigan Militia. The same pack of morons, or at least the heirs thereof, who were frothing into their moonshine in the '90s because they thought the DOT inventory control markings on the back of highway signs were navigational instructions for the United Nations One World Government occupation army. I mean, everyone knows the New World Order drives its tanks on the other side of the road.

At least some of these asshats in jail is better than none of these asshats in jail.

[tracker7]

There really is nothing so damned ridiculous that people won't go for it.