Octopodial Chrome

Andrew Olmstead puts forth the argument regarding the election. In a nutshell: Badnarik is a loon; Nader is a thief; Bush is a socialist; Kerry is a loon, a thief and a socialist. The least of these evils is Bush (he of the unconstitutional McCain-Feingold Act; he of the unconstitutional No Child Left Behind Act), and thus one is honour-bound to vote for the man.

Beloit College have released their Mindset List for the Class of 2008. Those entering college this year never had to watch an ad for Zamfir and his thrice-accursed panpipes, the lucky bastards. I did find item 43 odd—I don’t remember ærodromes lacking security systems. It must have been wonderful back then.

It seems that Canadian and Swedish studies have demonstrated that the number of wars has decreased recently. And here I was thinking that President Bush is a nasty warmonger. Could it be that his harsh attitude towards disturbing the peace has led folks to stop disturbing it?

Maggie Forest has written a brilliant article on tunics. Based on cemetery finds, she has devised a pattern which uses very little fabric, is comfortable and looks pretty sharp. The key is to recognise that fabric is and always has been rather expensive: wasting it is ridiculous. The only changes I make is that I add gussets (a triangle front and back) underneath the arms, and remove the centre front and rear skirt gussets.