I love this.
I'll give consideration
to the rumination
of the devestation
Of local game shops.
I was just considering what online purchasing has done to small business owners who actually love the hobby of RPing... especially when you can get it cheaper directly from the press or download it (legally!) to your computer. "It" generally being books. You can't download miniatures yet.
But gaming stores have a beauty and splendor all their own. When you go into one, you know you aren't alone in your joys. You can meet fellows of the same tastes... peers, perhaps. Many even offer gaming right there.
The internet strikes again! I can find a board easily that gets me in contact with local gamers of similar interests. I can filter, seek otherwise shut-in folk, and check nearby locales just in case.
I don't exactly fear the loss, since I haven't really hung out in one in years... possibly more than a decade.
Oh, and I don't think Bush is a bad President. I'll point to Millard Fillmore for that kind of thing.
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Not really. Someone in one of my classes (a young lady) had made a comment about the war in Iraq and Bush's villainy, and it bugged the snot out of me.
As for choosing a counterexample... I didn't. I chose someone for contrast. Millard Fillmore was a bad president because he did nothing.
Bush is a good president because, like it or not, he does stuff. Not only that, but the majority people voted him in twice knowing full well what they were getting into. He represents the voters (or the electoral college votes, at least) damn well.
He acts on his conscious, and it's not like that one is hard to decode.
He acts on the conscience that the American public feels represents it best.
I didn't vote for the guy, but I'll stand behind him.
Also, for the record, I suspect that the press follows an apolitical agenda, primarily. One of, "can we catch someone in bed with an animal?"
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