Year: 2007

VP Cheney is scolding the Democrats for failure to “support the troops” simply because they’re disinclined to give President Bush an indefinite amount of money for an indefinite amount of time…in other words, because they won’t let Bush do whatever he wants. And if there’s one thing we’ve learned about this president, he HATES it when someone stops him from doing whatever he wants.

The thing is, when I think of supporting the troops, I’m thinking of supporting their right not to be mired in an ill-defined mission that treats their lives as easily disposable commodities. I support their right to keep sucking oxygen. I support their right to an honest government that should admit they were sent over there on a political pretext, to search for weaponry that wasn’t there, and is now operating on fumes in the middle of an ongoing civil war that’s going to be waged whether we’re there or not.

As opposed to Cheney, for whom “suporting the troops” is code for “giving Bush carte blanche.”

I think I’ll take my definition over Cheney’s, thanks.

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The latest issues of two titles I write, both of which had the previous issues sell out.

Whad’ja think?

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This one is kind of difficult to talk about and will probably be difficult to read. In fact, I wasn’t even sure if Kath and I were going to be discussing it, but she said she wanted to, so I’m following her lead. I’m putting it below the cut line though so you can know in advance that this isn’t a typical blog entry.

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Steve Rogers. Shot dead.

People have been asking me to comment.

Understand that, if I were a fan, my reaction would be, “Yeah. Sh’right.”

As someone working for Marvel, you have to realize that I knew this was coming months ago. And I know what’s going to be happening over the next months.

So I can’t say anything.

What I will say is, “Dang. It HAD to be the same week as the latest issue of Friendly Neighborood Spider-Man…?”

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You know the big $370 million New York lottery? Well, Kath bought a ticket, and guess what? WE WON!

Not the whole thing. We didn’t have all the numbers. Only some. But we still won!

We got three numbers correct.

But we won!

We won…

Seven bucks.

But we won!

Seven bucks…on the ticket which cost us five bucks.

So we actually won two.

BUT WE WON! SEVEN BUCKS!

Any suggestions on how we should spend our newly found wealth?

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Some of the guys in my local bowling league have a vague idea that I’m some kind of writer, but don’t know the specifics, and I never make a big deal about it.

That changed a bit yesterday when Howard Stern was doing a Star Trek trivia question: What was the name of Sulu’s daughter? Sulu himself, George Takei, was on as he sometimes is, and he made reference to “The Captain’s Daughter” written by Peter David. The result? One of my teammates asked if I was the selfsame guy mentioned on Stern. Naturally it was and he spread mention to other folks. So I think my coolness factor was bumped up a bit.

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