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For a few years I’ve been fascinated by the Left Behind books. I haven’t read any of them, I’ve just been following the progress of its popularity and how effective it has become as a propaganda tool for a movement that I dislike (and when I say “dislike”, that’s code for “encourages people to kill people like me and many of my friends and therefore I can’t recommend them to others... wouldn’t you?”) In fact, I’ve been following the trend since the mid-90s when I learned that the anti-gay industry...

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                                                          A Really Baaa…d Decision          The Bill Press Show…          …an interview with Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer.         Asked about the 2000 Gore v. Bush decision, Breyer admitted it was a “bad” decision, but “one good thing” was that there was “no revolution” and Americans generally “accepted the decision.”         He’s kidding, right?         Is it really Judge Breyer’s view it’s a “good...

So, as much as I love superhero RPGs (X-Men Legends, Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, and you can throw in KotOR if you consider Jedi superheroes), there's a basic problem with their premise... "WE HAVE ASSEMBLED THE GREATEST SUPERHEROES EVER TO STOP CERTAIN DOOM. By the way, you can only bring four of them."

PREMISE Six years after what many feared would be the end of the Planet, all has seemed peaceful. For two years now, life has gone on smoothly, following it's own course of ups and downs without any sort of outside influence. In recent months, however, things seem different, almost out of sorts. You can feel it in the air around you, taste it in the foods you eat. You can feel it in your being . Everything seems as though it's drained, slowly becoming lifeless as though something is...