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If they ever film a movie about the life of Isaac Asimov, Al Franken is the guy who should play the lead. The resemblance is remarkable, and I'm sure Al could imitate the heavy Brooklyn accent without too much trouble.
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Amusing idea: a new game called "Bushopoly". Two players vie to be first into the White House. The player with the Bush token gets ten times the money of his competitor, and even if his competitor wins, there is a 90% chance that Bush wins the White House and the game by judicial fiat. It could be kind of funny. I had an idea for some Chance cards, but it slipped my mind. Stuff like "Terror Alert! Your polls rise 5%. Keep this card and use it as often as you like. Card only valid if your name is Bush."
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I wonder if the rising popularity of SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans has changed yard sales? Seems to me that they would make it easier for a large item like a piece of furniture to be an impulse buy, since they have so much more cargo space.
Amusing idea: a new game called "Bushopoly". Two players vie to be first into the White House. The player with the Bush token gets ten times the money of his competitor, and even if his competitor wins, there is a 90% chance that Bush wins the White House and the game by judicial fiat. It could be kind of funny. I had an idea for some Chance cards, but it slipped my mind. Stuff like "Terror Alert! Your polls rise 5%. Keep this card and use it as often as you like. Card only valid if your name is Bush."
I wonder if the rising popularity of SUVs, pickup trucks, and vans has changed yard sales? Seems to me that they would make it easier for a large item like a piece of furniture to be an impulse buy, since they have so much more cargo space.
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the RNC has put up a "Kerryopoly" video game on its site.
There's a "Bushopoly" thing at http://www.bushin30seconds.org/150/view.html?ad_id=1505; it's one of
those little ads for that Moveon.org contest.
Yes, I Googled for "Bushopoly." :) Oddly, somebody must have figured that
"bushopoly.com" would be worth money and snagged the name for speculative
purposes.
Franken as Asimov; hmm, interesting. Would Dr. A's life really be all that
movie worthy though?
On yard sales: Well, people used to have station wagons, after all. Of course
oil prices are heading up which hurts SUV sales; even with the sudden discovery of more gasoline
(must have fallen behing the couch or something) right after the record
price, the realities of the increased Chinese and other country demand are
going to push up the price. We know what the Bush administration answer is;
drill everyplace where there is the slightest chance of oil without regard
for what or who is there (saw a bit on how in the West surface and mineral
rights are often seperate, and mineral rights trump surface rights).
What we _should_ be doing is investing a LOT in alternate energy, even stuff
that may seem flakey. Fusion, Solar Power Satellites, improved solar cells,
even improved fission plants (it can be done better and safer, I gather).
And there's a little of that sort of thing going on, but not as much as
there could be. Plus there will always be the NIMBY Syndrome; note what's
happening with the wind farm near Cape Cod. These things work just fine
in Denmark, but from what I gather you have rich folk here who don't want
to see them from their expensive homes and boats. Better to have polluting
power plants powered by petroleum products carried on tankers that can
wreck and spill poison.
(couldn't quite do alliteration for the whole of the sentance, darn.)