Warning: This post concerns the death of Melanie Beltran, the five-year-old killed by her mother last week. The details surrounding her death may will be disturbing to any sane human being, and my comments aren’t exactly what you’d call civil.
Click to read on, but don’t say I didn’t warn you.
Is it sad that when I heard about Games for Windows — Live, my first reaction wasn’t to think of gaming cross platform (I have my console, and prefer to game there most of the time, thanks), but the possibility of watching my Xbox friends list and get messages from them?
I’ve been dealing with some family stuff this week that’s taken up pretty much all of my non-work time.
I’ll be back and blogging semi-regularly as usual soon, most likely.
One thing that always makes me laugh is when I see someone in West Virginia who has a sticker or magnet on their car encouraging people to vote Democrat in 2008. These stickers or magnets usually say something like “Had enough?” or “Learned Your Lesson Yet?” or something along those lines.
For those people, I’ve prepared a handy little fact sheet that they can use to promote Democratic politicians in 2008.
The North Wins
I quit reading comics a while back, when it became obvious that it was eating up far too much of my budget and that I couldn’t be trusted to keep myself limited to a handful of comics (though still I have every intention of buying Serenity: Better Times when it comes out).
Still, when a comic-book event is big enough that you get CNN coverage, I feel that I should comment.
Just in case you don’t want spoiled for Civil War, I’ll cut this.