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But why should anyone believe that someone who fights an unjust war will make a just peace? That whole speech was just whining about how hard the tough choices he has to make are, after having threatened the life of a child of less than six years. It's disgusting.

You are treating a premise as an equation can be reversed, when it cannot. If you fight bravely and nobly for what is wrong, then you are still wrong. That is true. But If you are fighting for what is good and just and true, and you use the tactics of those who fight for what is bad and wrong...

<rubs fingers together> "I play the world's smallest violin. If the resistance employs the tactics of the oppressor, why support the resistance?"

The Horned King The gradual seizure of authority by Dracula within Britain during the 1990s did not go totally unnoticed, and not all of those who realized what was going on were destroyed or co-opted. Two individuals, both members of the intelligence community who were practicing magicians...

Merlin Having two sets of complete memories, one of which you know to be an accurate recollection of your personal experience and the other which you know to be an accurate recollection of your current reality, goes beyond being confusing and into the realm of the dangerously frustrating...

Metalika During the early stages of the Anachronic Calamity, Billie Zane found herself hard-pressed in her struggle against those who sought to prevent her from taking her revenge on the reality which had betrayed her so cruelly. She lost two of her collected Cosmic Gems in conflicts with...

I would start with the gondola of a dirigible and expand it to be a bit more circular rather than oblong -- flying saucers are the latter day descendants of mysterious airships, so something that expands on the closest equivalent that ever really existed might work.

I had the interesting experience of being the only one in a group watching the movie who was in on it. Some of them, who'd been extremely hostile towards the wife following the anniversary scene, were pretty ashamed of themselves by the finale.

Nope. Brienne is still alive in A Dance of Dragons.

Nose. You can't see it, but you know where it is, right? That's zero.

Then it would be zero days, and people can count to zero.

The Saknussen Caverns Arne Saknussen was an Icelandic scholar and reputed alchemist, born around 1512 and disappeared from the historical record around 1573. (Jules Verne, or possibly his editor, represented his name as Saknussemm.) If in his own writings he claimed to have discovered a...

Niamh Monaghan The first thing you need to know is that her name is pronounced "NEEV maw-na-GAN". (Not "maw-na-HAN".) The second is that she is quite sensitive about mispronunciations of her name. Under most circumstances, she will choose to let the insult slide, but she will never forget...

I suspect that may not number among his goals. He doesn't want to be with her. He wants to be in (what he imagines as) her station.

Andon Viernes There was never any question that Andon Viernes was going to follow his parents into the private military of the corporation that employed them both. Some people might have rebelled against those expectations, but Andon found them comforting. Predictability was like warm bread in...

... thank you for making me feel really really old. :cry: Kidding. That happened when I backed the forthcoming Everyday Heroes ...

Yep, hence his positioning here.

Joey Bazooka Even in the ranks of Project Mayhem -- once the youth wing of what was a united metasupremacist movement, now just one of many factions -- information about their leader is on a need-to-know basis, with the final hazing ritual for "probies" being the moment that they are told that...

Yes, we have.

She's not from the Sprawl originally, she's from this world. The story of Bethany's kidnapping is ... involved, dating back to a conflict between her father and a former Chairman of Takagi Investment during the final years of the Insurgency.