Battles with Integrity

In the US, the standard business-size envelope is big enough to fit several sheets of 8.5" x 11" paper, with room to spare. It's called a Number 10 envelope. There also exists a Number 9 envelope, whose sole purpose it seems, is to be small enough to fit inside a Number 10 envelope, and yet still be big enough to hold an 8.5" x 11" piece of paper (or a check!). And the Number 11? It is intended to be big enough that you can fit your Number 10s inside.

I don't know why this amuses me, but it does.

From the Endgame website, for all of y'all you guys:

Title: July RPGnet Mini Con
Description: RPG.net and EndGame bring you the July 2006 Mini Con.

Saturday July 15, EndGame along with our sponsors, RPG.net present you with a full day of gaming goodness. ( Read more... )

There's still space available for many of the games, so check them out. Come out and play.

name_redacted, I assume you've already heard this one. After Oklahoma City, the Armed Forces really tightened up their requirements for entry, specifically with an eye towards weeding out the white supremacists, and Christian extremists. Recently though, in the wake of increasing recruitment pressures, the Defense Department has apparently relaxed these restrictions. So basically, in order to fight the war against foreign terrorists, we're training our future domestic terrorists. So we're now seeing Aryan Nations graffiti in Baghdad, a predictable (although unintentioned) result of such policies. When these guys come home with weapons and explosives training, what other predictable results might we expect? Just another example of your administration making the world safe for from terrorists.

Well, there goes my good mood. 

Credit where credit is due:  

• With no thanks to Kingdaddy, for the information. I don't know why I read this guy who depresses me so much, except that he's one of the most cogent foreign policy analysts I've read, and an all-around smart guy, too boot.
• The icon comes from Doonesbury, by Gary Trudeau.