Woo hoo! I guess Lieberman was a little pissed off. Poor Joe. Now the speculation is… who will be Dean’s VP? I like Clark, but speculation is that it will have to be someone with experience in Washington (Edwards?) because Dean doesn’t have any. Evan Bayh, anyone?
MARY SUE (n.):
1. A variety of story, first identified in the fan fiction community, but quickly recognized as occurring elsewhere, in which normal story values are grossly subordinated to inadequately transformed personal wish-fulfillment fantasies, often involving heroic or romantic interactions with the cast of characters of some popular entertainment.
2. A distinctive type of character appearing in these stories who represents an idealized version of the author.
3. A cluster of tendencies and characteristics commonly found in Mary Sue-type stories.
4. A body of literary theory, originally generated by the fanfic community, which has since spread to other fields (f.i., professional SF publishing) because it’s so darn useful. The act of committing Mary Sue-ism is sometimes referred to as “self-insertion.”
Sounds dirty.
Making Light’s lengthy article on the concept of “The Mary Sue” is well worth reading.
This is a cool site… it’s going in my list of bookmarks to look at regularly.
“Through research, advocacy, and public education, the FAS Project on Government Secrecy
works to challenge excessive government secrecy and to promote public oversight.”
Yeah, Nancy. It’s nice to know that cooler heads prevail at times.
“When our country chooses to honor a great President such as Franklin Roosevelt by placing his likeness on our currency, it would be wrong to remove him and replace him with another,” she said. “It is my hope that the proposed legislation will be withdrawn.”
Broadcast on national television. Because it’s true. And god forbid we tell the truth about Iraq.
I just finished my Christmas letter, which will be going out with my Christmas cards in the mail shortly. I will post it here, too, but not until after I send them out, so as not to spoil the surprise for those of you who kindly sent my your addresses.
I think it’s quite funny, if I do say so my self. And funny in the intentional way, not the unintentional way of… ahem… some people I know who’s Christmas letter I read out loud to my friends every year.
Old Fashioned Patriot has succeeded in one of his web projects… getting bloggers all over the web to link to George W. Bush’s white house biography using the term Miserable Failure as the link, so that eventually, when one searches for “Miserable Failure” on Google, the bio is the first thing that pops up. Way to Google hack!
Sorry, I just read that line in a tv review of a recent episode of Carnivale, and it really cracked me up. Nevermind me.