American politics; faith and secularism, NaNaWriMo and Gaming

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The new leader of the United States is wasting no time; with a number of the most troubling laws (restriction on stem cell research, oil drilling in the wilderness) being slated for veto when he actually takes office. Perhaps in time a federal intervention on same sex marriage will also occur given the results of Proposition 8 in California et al. lederhosen provides a list of the organisations sponsoring the constitutional revision (now longer available on google cache), which indicates a hefty number of conservative and fundamentalist Christian organisations - once again determined to inflict their notions of sacredness unto others in secular law. slit takes up the problems related to race baiting in the referedum in an intelligent and future-orientated manner.

Going back in posting history, I've found the post when I last did NaNaWriMo; which incidentally was the time when I'd been given the 'OK' to do a game based on Greg Costikyan's Barbarian Kings. Now, two years later, I find that I that I'm working on the game as NaNaWriMo (now at twenty five thousand words) and the novel (only a third completed after being abandoned in early 2007) is being double-checked by the good phoebe82 who seems to know something about the region. In other gaming-related news, I'm being interviewed by a NZ gaming 'blog, played Middle-Earth Role Playing on Friday, and continued the RuneQuest Prax story on Sunday.

Comments

[must-sew-faster.livejournal.com]

Should I be so inclined (and I don't usually draw political cartoons), I would draw a sketch of Mr. Bush doodling duckies in a notebook. Meanwhile, behind him you see a hundred men and Obama's hand resting on Mr. Bush's shoulder and a calm voice says, "Move over, son, there's work to be done."
I'm thinking something along those lines.

[direwolf23.livejournal.com]

I'm still betting Prop 8 will get shot down as unconstitutional, but if nothing else it seems to have really started a fire under everyone.

I'm always impressed anyone can do nano. I can never find the time or motivation to write that much that quickly. :P

[mr-figgy.livejournal.com]

Outpaced from all sides... but as for the minimum "pace", after a late start I should pull ahead of it by the end of the day. More importantly, I haven't run out of story to tell.

When I'm at 40,000 words and have said everything I planned to say, that's when I'll have to change tactics.

[djayha.livejournal.com]

What's interesting to me is that Obama IS the new leader of the United States despite not yet having taken office. He's just not waiting for Bush's term to end; he recognizes that the mess we're in simply is not going to wait until he's in the White House, and that it's necessary that he begin his work NOW. Even so, I am somewhat fascinated as I watch the transfer of power already beginning to take place, even if only in an unofficial way.