The Witcher 2 Oh, Dead Again

I really loved The Witcher.  It was a fun game, even though it had the nasty habit of killing you every few minutes.  The new Witcher follows along in that tradition, and I am growing to love it. I bought the Witcher 2 the day it came out-and found that it was all but impossible for me to play.  This was due to a couple of factors, a computer that may be a bit below the minimum requirements and a certain laziness on my part when it comes to having to learn how to do a couple of dozen different…

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Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut

I first read Man Without a Country not long after it came out in 2005 and I still totally agree with everything Kurt has to say. Kurt was a humanist who had the radical idea that war was bad, over population was bad, The Bushes-Chaneys-Rumsfelds of the world were bad, and that the idea that The Free Market will self correct and fix everything is total bullshit. My kind of a guy. Kurt Vonnegut is in heaven now, along with Issac Asimov. Just kidding. They were both famous atheists who prefered the rational to the fantastical, except for their writing.…

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True Blood-They Are All Monsters

Season 3 of True Blood wraps up with a few finial twists and turns that show us that the Good Guys aren’t so good.  Our hero vampire Bill took a number steps this season that showed he was more evil than we thought.  His casual betrayals pop up throughout the season, with his constant backstabbing causing a rift in his relationship with Sookie. Our good old boy bartender Sam turns out to be more of a cold blooded killer and less of a poor misunderstood shapeshifter.  Sookie takes the time to torture an evil vampire and takes great pleasure in…

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