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

[cluebyfour.livejournal.com]

It was a bit rushed. For one, Bush's transition team initially received no funding because of the legal dispute over the Florida vote. Until Al Gore formally conceded the election, Bush wasn't considered the President-elect and thus did not have direct access to Clinton and his team to start the transition process.

Although according to some observers, including a Gore adviser, it went quite smoothly given the circumstances.

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Ahh, that would explain it.. Yes, I suppose under the circumstances it was quite smooth.