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Caity's World, Part 13 “You — you knew my father?” stammered Caitlyn.

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“I — I don’t understand,” said Caitlyn. “How do you know him? I mean, he wasn’t anyone important.”

“Was he now?” said Ji-Cheng, and waited patiently for her to answer.

“But he was just a math teacher!” she said. “He taught at a community college!”

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Caity's World, Part 12 The dumbwaiter creaked and groaned, scraping angrily against the wall as Caitlyn was lowered into — well, there was no way of knowing where. She cowered inside it in near blackness, her legs pulled to her chest, her head nearly bumping the top of the large moldy-smelling wooden box as the wall slid in front of her, inch by grueling inch: Just because she was shaped like a human didn’t mean she weighed like a human, and it was obvious that neither Sang nor the dumbwaiter had lowered five hundred pounds before.

A crack of dim light appeared at the bottom of the dumbwaiter and slid upward to form a pale greenish rectangle leading

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So she stood there, trying to decide what to do next in the dim greyish light leaking from the end of the street. This

Caity's World, Part 10 There comes a time in every person’s life when she’s had “all she can stands, and can’t stands no more,” and Caitlyn had reached that. She watched him walk away. The only man who’d been even remotely interested in her since her Change, and he was a decent man to boot, intelligent, caring, witty, and somehow she’d turned him away. The realization that she may have actually rejected him boggled her mind, and she felt her knees sagging.

She turned around and stumbled back into the apartment building, stunned, trying to regain her bearings, and collapsed against a wall. Then there was some shouting around

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I don't know if I'm the first to do this, but I doubt I'll be the last.

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So the deal is: We were watching the Democratic debate tonight, and after hearing that weird little gnome Dennis Kucinich say "impeach the President" for the like third or fourth time, I mockingly shouted "bingo." Which suggested that maybe to spice up the debates we (the viewers) ought to be playing bingo with the candidates comments. Hence Democratic Debate Bingo!

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Democratic Debate Bingo

Here are the rules:

Before the next two debates (November 15 and December 10), download and print out the bingo cards here, and give one to a friend. (Go ahead and print 'em; you have my license to do so.) Each of you keep a pen in hand. Choose two candidates, and make your pair a different pair than your friend chooses. Write the last names of your candidates in the bottom-right and bottom-left corners of your bingo card. The current eight candidates are, in alphabetical order:

Joseph Biden
Hillary Clinton
Christopher Dodd
John Edwards
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson

Any time either of your candidates says a phrase on your bingo card, draw a big "X" over that square. First person to get five "X" marks in a row, either vertically, horizontally, or diagonally, wins. (Or loses. You decide.)

(Ahh... Kucinich... how can a candidate get any crazier? I very nearly put "UFO" on one of these cards because of him

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By the way, lest you think I'm mocking the debates or the Democrats, I'm not. I'm a college-educated registered Republican (moderate capitalist leaning toward centrist/libertarian) who reads the newspaper regularly, who follows politics, and who seriously thinks that Barack Obama would make a damn fine President, despite occasionally disagreeing with him. Running this country is serious business, and if these bingo cards engage even one more voter to follow the process more closely, they were worth the time it took to put 'em together.

love 1 1

~~joy 0 0~~

~~wow 0 0~~

~~mad 0 0~~

~~sad 0 0~~

~~fear 0 0~~

~~neutral 0 0~~

~Beta-Maxis Jan 7, 2011

I have no idea what your political affiliation in that last paragraph means, AT ALL. (I apologize for using all caps, but I have NO IDEA how to make slanted letters due to being HTML illiterate)

*phantom-inker Jan 8, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

On a fiscal liberalism-to-conservatism scale from -10 (highly conservative) to +10 (highly liberal), I am a -2. On a social liberalism-to-conservatism scale from -10 (highly conservative) to +10 (highly liberal), I am a +1. These are the two primary axes on which the spectra of political leanings can be plotted, with the Democratic party centered around (+8,+8), the Republican party centered around (-8,-8), and a true centrist at (0,0). I approach pure centrism but lean slightly fiscally conservative and slightly socially liberal, a position which is neither Republican nor Democrat.

Does that help at all?

~Beta-Maxis Jan 8, 2011

Well, I always considered politics needlessly complicated and never understood the difference between 'fiscal' and 'social' in political context. I'm mostly a negetarian Protestant who quite frankly doesn't give a d**n about sexuality.

*phantom-inker Jan 9, 2011 Hobbyist Digital Artist

It's not about sex. The fiscal and social spectra exist in the abstract, and are a pair of mathematical axes that can be used to measure every form of government from democracy to monarchy to anarchy.

If you want to get a better feel for how those concepts work and where you really fit relative to them, try taking this excellent politics test: [link]