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one of which is getting out in March

Hah!  Now the LCS can begin it's work anew!

But for what it's worth, I sometimes look to the middle east for source material. Kind of sad, really, that I could look anywhere for source material for this game. 

Really?  I thought the game was more in the spirit of Latin American revolution.  After all, American capitalist greed features quite prominently in said revolutions.

Also, Duke, words have meaning according to how they're used, and when I say democracy, people understand it to mean a government with elections not just direct democracy.  Don't play semantic games or I'll get angry.  And you won't like that...

No.

LCS is funny because it's in America, a functioning democracy where the government does a pretty good job of representing the people.  It's about a group of revolutionaries who are completely blind to the world and that's what makes it funny.  Putting it in Iraq would be tasteless and would ruin the game.

Sensible young boy!

Awesome!

Someone needs to find a way to hack a traders limb off and then sell a craft made of that limb back to him on a later visit.

I think there's a lot of blame to go around with the housing crisis, but I think Card is spot on about the media not being objective about it.  There have been polls showing a majority of people believe this, and that it is biased for the left.

Maybe people blame the right more because the right's platform ever since Regan has been "regulation bad, deregulation good."  On everything from industrial regulation to labor regulation to trade barrier to, yes, finance they have always pursued deregulation.  While it's a bad idea to put a single cause to this collapse, if you had to name a single government action most to blame, it would be the politics of deregulation.  So it's not unreasonable to blame the right more since both sides are guilty of failure of vision (neither Clinton or Bush acted to avert this) but it was only the GOP that created the political and legal environment that makes this possible.  If the right is more to blame (and they are!) then why shouldn't the media say so?