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holzman_tweedFirst a quick political note.
New Paltz Mayor Jason West is being criminally prosecuted for the misdemeanor offense of solemnizing a marriage without a license. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but he said this morning that it's not he, but the license issuing authority that is breaking the laws of New York, and that he will continue to marry people without discrimination.
EDIT: This is not disuading the Mayor of Nyack from taking up marriage equality, but from seeking a license to marry his own same-sex partner. Meanwhile, pressure is starting to mount on Bloomberg to do the right thing. Shame on you, Mayor Bloomberg, for not taking a leadership role!
Governor Pataki directed Attorney General Spitzer to get a court to order West to stop marrying same-sex couples. Spitzer refused, saying he doesn't think he'd be able to get a court to issue that order based on the luck they're having in California. He's also made it plain that he supports marriage equity, and people are thinking he may issue an opinion in his legasl capacity that New York State law does not forbid it.
EDIT: It didn't happen. Spitzer says he'd like to see the law changed, but the law is what it is.
I'm shortly off to put my Governor on notice that he needs to do the right thing on marriage equity.
I picked up Ascension last night, which is White Wolf's concluding episode for Mage: The Ascension. Those who follow gaming are probably aware that White Wolf is taking the (as far as I know) unprecedented step of actually concluding the campaign world that has been it's flagship for 12 years, rather than letting it slip into a limbo of supplements that no one buys. They're also concluding Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse with Gehenna and Apocalypse.
As luck had it, I was at Gen Con when V:tA was first released in 1991. I got it that weekend and may have been one of the first people in Chicago running it. Mage was definately the game that most captured my attention, though, even though I stopped paying attention once 3rd edition came out.
Ascension seems quite good so far, though. I like the fact that they're structuring the book such that the GM can pick from any of a set of provided conclusions to the game, or use it to build a custom tailored conclusion.
I've been inspired to finally put together a Mage play list for each of the major factions and for the conclusion itself. If I obsesses on it enough, I may get very granular indeed in splitting things down, but we'll see how that plays out.
New Paltz Mayor Jason West is being criminally prosecuted for the misdemeanor offense of solemnizing a marriage without a license. It will be interesting to see how this plays out, but he said this morning that it's not he, but the license issuing authority that is breaking the laws of New York, and that he will continue to marry people without discrimination.
EDIT: This is not disuading the Mayor of Nyack from taking up marriage equality, but from seeking a license to marry his own same-sex partner. Meanwhile, pressure is starting to mount on Bloomberg to do the right thing. Shame on you, Mayor Bloomberg, for not taking a leadership role!
Governor Pataki directed Attorney General Spitzer to get a court to order West to stop marrying same-sex couples. Spitzer refused, saying he doesn't think he'd be able to get a court to issue that order based on the luck they're having in California. He's also made it plain that he supports marriage equity, and people are thinking he may issue an opinion in his legasl capacity that New York State law does not forbid it.
EDIT: It didn't happen. Spitzer says he'd like to see the law changed, but the law is what it is.
I'm shortly off to put my Governor on notice that he needs to do the right thing on marriage equity.
I picked up Ascension last night, which is White Wolf's concluding episode for Mage: The Ascension. Those who follow gaming are probably aware that White Wolf is taking the (as far as I know) unprecedented step of actually concluding the campaign world that has been it's flagship for 12 years, rather than letting it slip into a limbo of supplements that no one buys. They're also concluding Vampire: The Masquerade and Werewolf: The Apocalypse with Gehenna and Apocalypse.
As luck had it, I was at Gen Con when V:tA was first released in 1991. I got it that weekend and may have been one of the first people in Chicago running it. Mage was definately the game that most captured my attention, though, even though I stopped paying attention once 3rd edition came out.
Ascension seems quite good so far, though. I like the fact that they're structuring the book such that the GM can pick from any of a set of provided conclusions to the game, or use it to build a custom tailored conclusion.
I've been inspired to finally put together a Mage play list for each of the major factions and for the conclusion itself. If I obsesses on it enough, I may get very granular indeed in splitting things down, but we'll see how that plays out.
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Date: 2004-03-04 08:37 am (UTC)(I've sworn off White Wolf but I can't help but be nosy about this.)
Eric
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Date: 2004-03-04 08:47 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2004-03-04 10:45 am (UTC)