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- ontic ( on'-tick) adj.
of, relating to, or having real being.
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Spider-Man 2 :|
Doc Ock, mad genius,
can't see why webbing doesn't
shoot out Spidey's butt.
 
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Sylvia
"Another type of kiddo has difficulty making friends
because he can't just 'chill' or spend time with other people
without some type of goal. Remember your adolescence? Those endless
games of Monopoly where you won, or your friend won, or you just
played and played until it was time to clean up and go home for
dinner? Maybe the goal is playing and maybe the goal is just
hanging out and having a focus. Fluxx can 'sucker' these hyper-competitive
guys into playing, but with the shifting 'goal' the end of the
game becomes somewhat diffuse, because the winner isn't smarter
or even luckier, just the winner, ok, shuffle the deck and play
again! Then we can discuss whether it's really important to win
or just enjoy playing. This is an excellent game for this, because
there is no rhyme or reason as to when the end comes (someone
just lays down a goal card and there it is, someone wins)." -- Kelly Brown, talking about how she uses Fluxx
in a speech and language setting, from her
Rabbit bio
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Steny Changed His Mind! |
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 The
sad news of the day is that Congress voted against the Hinchey-Rohrabacher
Amendment. (For those who don't follow our website, this was
a medical marijuana bill which we've been campaigning for recently,
which would have kept the federal government from arresting
medical marijuana patients whose use of the drug is legal under
state laws.) The failure of the Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment
is certainly a big disappointment, and an indicator of how much
more work there is to be done before our efforts at drug law
reform will be successful. (You can easily check
to see how your own representative voted - and please follow
up and say
Thank You or express
your dissapointment, whichever is appropriate. Thanks!)
However, there is a bright spot of news in this story: our
own region's representative, Mr. Steny Hoyer, who voted against
a similar bill a year ago, has changed his mind! He voted "yes"
this time around! Yay! Thank you Mr. Hoyer! Whether our
little protest at your office last month had anything to
do with it or not, I'm happy you've seen the wisdom of our point
of view on this. Although it's a small victory in the face of
a large defeat, Steny Hoyer is now a symbol for us that people
can change their minds about this
issue. Person by person, we *are* making progress!
Speaking of changing even a few people's minds, I'd like to
urge everyone to go see "Fahrenheit 9/11." Being the
radical liberal that I am, I've been looking forward to this
movie for months, and now that we're back
from Origins, we made a point of seeing it. Not surprisingly,
I thought it was excellent, and I think everyone in America should
see this movie before voting in the fall. Unfortunately, the
people who most need to see this film are the ones who will refuse
to, hiding behind lame excuses like "I don't like Michael
Moore." Well, obviously, it's slanted, but the film-maker's
bias doesn't invalidate the film's points, and if you refuse
to see this movie, you are declaring that you are unwilling to
listen to both sides of an argument and to then make a fair,
informed decision. When has a sitting president ever been called
to be accountable for his actions by a feature-length documentary
like this? For that reason if no other, I think everyone who
plans to vote this November should see this movie first.
We also saw Harry Potter 3 (after first finally seeing part
2) which I thought was really quite good, easily the best of
the three, and we saw "Shrek 2," which was a worthy
sequel, but not as good as the original. Also, I finally got
hip to an obscure German film from 1999 called "Run Lola
Run," which was excellent!
Besides getting caught up on movies, we've generally been
relaxing and taking it easy this week. We celebrated the Fourth
of July by eating delicious grilled meats, watching small explosions,
falling
off the couch, and of course, playing games with our friends.
We made a special point of honoring the day by playing a few
rounds of our patriotic new release, Early
American Chrononauts, which is officially available now!
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Enjoy Life! Have a great week! |
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The Hinchey-Rohrabacher Amendment failed to pass,
but maybe we can stop the Federal Marriage Amendment. Please
call both of your Senators ASAP and ask them to vote NO when
this comes up for a vote, sometime next week. Here is the number:
1-877-762-8762. When you call, ask for one of your Senators by
name. When their office answers, state your name and address
and urge
them to oppose the Federal Marriage Amendment. Then call
your other Senator immediately and do the same. Thanks! |
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"Bush defenders try to explain away Bush's inaction
as not wanting to upset the children. Michael Moore explains
away Bush's inaction by suggesting he hadn't been told to leave.
But Michael Moore failed to follow that line of reasoning through
to its logical conclusion; where were the people whose job it
is to get the President to a place of safety in event of attack,
the people who would have, SHOULD have, pulled Bush out of there,
children and public appearances be damned! The Secret Service
did nothing. The dog did not bark." -- whatreallyhappened.com:
"The Secret Service at Booker Elementary: The Dog That Did
Not Bark" |
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"Thank you all for signing up for events,
for helping to cover when people were late, for being so enthusiastic,
for bringing so much spirit and energy that we were drawing people
away from Pokemon (wow!)... Our Big Experiment is very unusual
and special, and I think just about anybody who walks into our
space must realize it right away. Thank you for bread, for covering
my early morning Top Rabbit slots when I was running around,
for keeping the demo tables in the booth hopping, for helping
to clean up the Lab, for participating in our Rabbit discussions,
for volunteering, for all of the warmth and affection. Thanks
for hugs, everybody.... Thanks for water, for peanut butter and
homemade jams, for little Tirades and painted shirts, for little
tomatoes, for mobiles and for pistachios. Thanks for smiling,
for laughing, for hugging me when I most needed it, for winning
The Star, for keeping track of the data, and for doing so very
much more than we could have asked. Thanks for recycling, for
playing games, for being so darned friendly and fun to play with,
for making the impression we always do when we show up somewhere
and play. Thanks for photographs and ideas, for running to North
Market to keep us fed, and for holding hands when we crossed
the streets. Thanks for your patience and understanding, for
the martini (or two), for staying up late and getting up early,
for listening and talking. Thanks for letting me part of your
team. Thanks for chocolate. Thanks for setting everything up,
for tearing everything down, for packing and unpacking, counting,
drawing, making signs, standing on top of stacks of chairs, for
bringing duct tape, for having string, for helping to figure
out every problem. Most of all, thanks for being there. Thanks
for being my friends! I'm deeply grateful for all of this and
more." -- Russell's
post-Origins thank you message to the Rabbits |
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