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These auctions end on Nov
1, 2004:
I <heart> Huckabees
%}
What if the whole world
were made of philosophers
and psychiatrists?
 
Republicans
for Kerry
Overcompensating
"I was first introduced to Fluxx a couple of years ago,
and I've since addicted a number of others to it and tried a
number of other Looney games. This is I think my fourth order
from y'all, and everything's been great so far. Keep up the good
work! :)" -- comments with an order from
Derek of Madison, WI
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Pumpkins, Postcards, and the
UberExperiment |
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 The
buzz around here this week, besides holding our breath until
the election, is all about Mini-Experiments. Whereas the Big Experiment
is our once-a-year annual marathon of official Looney
Labs Tournaments, and Little Experiments are other gatherings
of smaller groups of our fans, a Mini-Experiment
is something a single Mad
Lab Rabbit can do by themselves at any random gathering of
people. (To see exactly how these Experiments work, check out
the newly-expanded official
pages.) As our Rabbits make plans to run their own Little
and Mini Experiments, we here at the Lab have been rushing to
develop the package of Experiment
materials each Rabbit will need to be provided with in order
to begin their own experimentation.
Why the rush? We have signed on as a sponsor of National
Games Week (NGW), which is now less than a month away, and
our plan for NGW is to run an UberExperiment: we're going to
find out how many Experiments our Rabbits can run in a single
week. We're also going to see how many different people our Rabbits,
as a collective, can play games with in one week. Some of these
Experiments
will be specifically planned Little Experiments; others will
simply be a test of how many of our games a lone Rabbit can play
with people during the course of the week, wherever they happen
to be. Either way, a Rabbit who wants in on all this fun needs
to get an official Experiment
Kit.
To help get the word out about National Games Week and our
UberExperiment, we've decided to send a postcard to everyone*
in our database. That's like 9000 names! Of course, there's some
duplication in there, so if you get more than one postcard, please
let us know, since one of the goals of the mailing is to refine
and calibrate the mailing list. (*OK, it's actually not everyone...
only consumers, not stores, and only those in the USA. Sorry,
it was a time/$ choice.)
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The design of the postcard is shown above... it highlights our
3 most recent releases (IceTowers,
Early
American Chrononauts, and Flowers
& Fluxx) with info on the NGW thing on the back. Doesn't
the design look great? I gave Marlene
the crudest of pencil sketches (shown here) and she turned the
ideas into the thing of beauty seen above. By this time next
week, you might just find one of these cards in your mailbox.
Lastly, we're sorry about being late with this update... we
had to stop to carve pumpkins, plus we didn't want to launch
this site until we had the new Experiment Kits fully figured
out. But the good news is, I used the extra time to build this
year's Pumpkin
Gallery! Enjoy!
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 Happy
Halloween! |
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Think of the country as a huge corporation at
which we all have jobs. We're on the Board of Directors, and
CEO Bush is up for review. A well-run company would fire the
CEO without hesitation after a term as unsuccessful and misguided
as Bush's has been. Their obligation to the stockholders would
compel the Board of Directors to remove a bad CEO, regardless
of how beloved he might be... even the company's founder can
and should be removed from the helm if it becomes clear he's
leading the company into bankruptcy. This election is not about
the new guy's resume, and it shouldn't be about loyalty to the
team you usually root for. This is our one and only chance to
fire an incompetent CEO before he sinks the whole company. If
you can't bring yourself to vote for John Kerry, but agree that
Bush doesn't deserve to keep his job, please just stay home on
November 2nd. Pretend you forgot to vote. Better yet, vote Libertarian
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"George W. Bush has used the name of God
for his own selfish gain, to appeal to conservative voters under
the façade of being one of us, but by his fruit we know
him. Jesus said, 'Beware of the false prophets, who come to you
in sheep's clothing, but inwardly are ravenous wolves. You will
know them by their fruits.' .... Let us not find ourselves like
the people Jesus talks about in Matthew 7:21-23, at the Judgment
Seat of Christ saying, 'Lord, Lord, did we not vote Republican
in Your name, and in Your name cast out homosexuals, and in Your
name oppose many abortions?' just to hear Jesus say, 'I never
knew you; depart from me, you who practice lawlessness.' George
W. Bush's character and policies directly oppose the commands
of Jesus Christ. We cannot support him, his policies, or his
candidacy. Christians must vote George W. Bush out of office."
-- Why
Evangelical Christians Must Vote Against Bush |
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"The Supreme Court can legalize marijuana
by fiat. Think of it no negotiations and tortured lobbying,
but genuine experts expounding on the facts, constrained by rules
of evidence. Pick one: Bush or Kerry. Which candidate is most
likely to name judges who will interpret the Constitution of
the United States according to facts in evidence rather than
DEA propaganda?" -- Jules Siegel, "The
Doper Vote" |
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