Look, I know it's been a long primary.

I know passions are high, I know tempers are flared.

I know, also, that it's nearly over - and that things have been said by Obamatons and Hillbots that cannot be lightly put aside.

And yet, once again, it is time to do so.

This is for all of you. All of you, in both remaining campaigns, that find more value in loading rifles and standing in a circle than you do in arming and fortifying against your enemy.

You have forgotten the face of your enemy. And, like many others here, I'm going to try to remind you.

Everyone has one.

The relative that is the reason why you wished you hadn't given out your email address to your relatives.

My stepgrandmother, in the Southwest, was widowed after my grandfather died. As she had married him after my grandmother died, well into my teen angst period, we were obviously never close.

The only contact I get from her are forwarded spam emails. Normally, I don't take a look at them, but I was wondering if she, like the experience of many people here, was sending me winger spam - so this morning I checked.

And, oh God, was she ever.

Emails,in their entirety, below the fold.

WARNING: YouTubery and pictures await within.

WARNING: The pictures should be reasonably safe for work. If you want NSFW Moody-pics, you'll have to meet me inworld and ask. Nicely.

WARNING: Logorrheic. That means wordy to those of you with a California public-school education.

About a year ago, we were coming to the realization that I was just too broke to attend Yearly Kos 2007. But, on the site, they said that they were going to have the convention simultaneously in a virtual space called Second Life. I had heard of Second Life, in a "No thanks, I have a First Life" kind of way, but I wanted to meet people and help out, and the first Yearly Kos was history, and even Moody Loners want to make history sometimes.

The site urged me to set up a Second Life account early to register in-world.

So, I did.

(h/t to the good Dr. Seuss, who has more room in my subconscious than I thought)

Whoever we pick, it's all the same.
I will not vote for John McCain.

I will not vote for John McCain.
I fear the man has gone insane.

I will not vote to have more war
We can't afford it any more.

I will not vote to bomb Iran
I will stop him if I can.

I will not vote for a Bush-hugger
There must surely be anudder.

I won't vote for torture, or that kind of stuff,
Hell, isn't watching 24 enough?

I will not vote for "Straight-Talk" John
No matter what drugs they put him on.

Not out of fear, or if I'm pissed
Even if he swears off lobbyists

His beady eyes, his angry sneer
Does not make me want to share his beer.

His BBQ with his secret rub?
I will not vote for another Dub.

I won't support him here or there.
I won't support him anywhere.

Not because of your candidates' supporters
Not because he's nice to reporters
Not because of the primary race.
I just can't stand his angry face.

Whoever wins, it's all the same.
I cannot vote for John McCain.

Atlanta Kossacks, check in here.

Update [2008-3-15 0:20:39 by Moody Loner]:: Atlanta Red Cross Contact and Donation Information Here.

Update [2008-3-15 0:20:39 by Moody Loner]:: Fulton County SPCA  Donations and information here.

Thanks, noweasels.

News links:

Atlanta Constitution Journal
National Weather Service Loop
CNN report Friday Night

Thanks, SallyCat.

Careful with personal info - just enough to let people know you're safe.

People that know - see if we can get some helpful information here forpeople in Atlanta that need it.

And keep the candidate crap outside, please.

Well, thanks to recent events, here I am again with some tips on how to deal with trolls infesting your Blogger site. There are similar solutions for other blogging software, and I'm sure we can get some experts in to share.

Basically, we're going to go over some simple steps: comment moderation, site visit logger, and some utilities to track and ban trolls from your site.

Let's get this out of the way - yes, I do believe that everyone has the right to freedom of speech. This does not, however, confer upon me the obligation to listen, particularly to badly misspelled, capslocked, misogynistic threats.

I may also add that this is for your site - Daily Kos has a fine team of admins ready to assist you. However, if someone's harassing you at your site and here, this might help give the admins info that will help them get Darth Smacktard off your back and back to his mommy's basement where he belongs.

Gary Gygax, co-creator of the Dungeons and Dragons role-playing game and the man widely regarded as the father of paper-and-pencil role-playing games, has died in his home at Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, on the morning of March 4, 2008.

Further details are here.

Yeah, if you can use BREAKING: for your candidate hit pieces, I can use it for this.

Crossposted at Street Prophets.

I've been having problems with the tires going flat on my recently-purchased car. All four of them - had one blow out while I was trying to take my daughter somewhere for her birthday.

Even the spare didn't seem able to hold pressure - and I couldn't, with the limited means at my disposal, find any problems with the tires.

Finally, I was able to take it in to the dealership to see what the problem was and to scream at them about it.

Well, it's been yet another day in Primary Wars 2008, and I feel the need to post something besides Hillamentum or Obamamania.

And I have spent the last two days reflecting upon deep, valuable, and important insights I gleaned from the recent Knight Rider movie. Well, before I fell asleep.

I actually found the philosophical, moral, and political ramifications of the movie stunning - even the parts that my wife told me about the next morning while giggling.

Join me below the flip as I share the insights offered, and indulge in weighty philosophical debate.

Diary text shamelessly ripped off from previous liveblogs.

Welcome to the debacle.  Three cheers for Chris Dodd, Russ Feingold, and anyone else who stands with Dodd.  

DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS DIARY.  RECOMMEND THE Mothership

MOTHERSHIP II POSTED HERE

You can watch patriotism and bullshit on

C-Span 2

This is the second quick diary I'm posting about bringing paper-and-pencil RPGs to Netroots Nation, 2008 in Austin.

Here, in the first, we learn that most of the demand is AD&D and D&D 3.5, with a little Grimm thrown in.

Now, all we need to do is figure out how many games, and what times. Terrypinder has ST:TNG or 2300AD, and there are certainly a good number of DMs out there.

Plus, I hear there's going to be a political convention there, too.

So, this poll will be how many games, rough times, and who runs them. I may do a Part III once we know what the schedule for Netroots Nation will be, to lock in times and days.

Again, I urge you, if you want to run something else, play something else, or otherwise participate, to post a comment below. If you have not played and wish to learn, at least one session will be low-level and new person friendly. The new person friendly and the kid friendly games do not have to be the same game.

And, by gaming, I don't mean gambling.

I've been getting some commentary and requests involving throwing down with y'all in some old-school Advanced Dungeons and Dragons action.

I had some vague idea of bringing an old module and running something one of the evenings - but then I thought I'd better bring it to y'all.

By the way, Timroff and Dania Audax have seats at Mrs. Moody's game - they asked first.

So, I'm throwing up a quick diary and a poll, how many games, what systems, and when do you all want to play? If I'm going to write an adventure or three, especially if we're going to do original adventures and not modules, we need to get started now.

In fact, seeing all the options, I'm going to post a game system poll first, and then tomorrow post a diary for number of games and times.

Either one of us can run most of these games - Grimm and Changeling would be Mrs. Loner, while Mutants and Masterminds would be me.

Also, this will be used to gauge demand, so if you want to play, want to run something, or otherwise participate, please comment.

Yes, I know I owe y'all a Kossack Fullstop diary.

Last night I popped in-world at random to check on a few things, and accepted the General's invitation to accompany him to a Second Life Republicans meeting.

Oh. My. God.

Yes, this should be an open thread comment - but Gatecrasher vs the Obamatons is taking up the front page right now, so I'll burn my daily diary on it.

Anyone been watching the Tournament of Roses parade? I've been watching it on the local channel 36, and can't help but see the "IMPEACH" signs behind the floats. It looks like a bunch of people in front of the Norton Simon museum.

Anybody else see them on your coverage? I'm curious to see what kind of exposure they got.

And if any of the people that were displaying the signs are reading, comment and tell us what it was like.

If anyone can find YouTube or pics let me know, I haven't found any yet.

Anybody see the Shrek Christmas special? Well, Little and I did - and it occurred to her that "The Christmas Story" can be different for different people.

Thus, the Moody Loner Christmas Story, below. Oh, and p00ka says she doesn't know us.

Diarist's note: This diary falls under the definition of allegory.More or less. No, I have not lost my mind. And yes, this is why I don't write at Street Prophets.

Okay, I'm getting used to it.

They generally carpool over - Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr are doing a good job keeping the back yard under control. Jesu's always early, while Morrigan usually shows up as a red crow - late. I need to keep a few bottles of Guinness for Jesu bin Joseph and a Godddamn case of Sam Adams for Thor. Kuan-yin and Siddartha are vegetarians.

I suppose I'm getting a little ahead of myself.

In this installment, we're going to look at how to get a decent look and new clothes, even vehicles, wings, and furry attachments.

No, not by getting a job. Put your credit card away. This installment, we're talking about freebies.

First, my standard caveats:

   

This diary is to help people who are having trouble in Second Life. If you think Second Life is a waste of time, or you're not interested, you really don't need to tell us about it.

   There will be pictures, and a lot of them. Huge pictures that will take a geological era to download over dialup. If you're on dialup you won't be able to use Second Life anyway, but if you want to see what Second Life is like, you Have Been Warned

So, this week's meme is "I'm not sure why I hate <subject>."

All right. All Goddamn Right.

You want to talk hate? You want to talk bone, gnawing, teeth-grinding, vile bile-spewing loathing?

Fine, Daily Kos. We'll go there. We'll talk about hate.

I'm pretty God-damned certain I hate everything.