Thought and Thesis

Anyone who knows me well will know that I am no war hawk. That being said, the actions of North Korea cannot go unanswered. Now it may not be necessary to take military action against them, but something must be done. For to long we have glad handed North Korea and all we have gotten is more and more belligerent actions. I for one say no more. We need to cut off all aid to North Korea in anyway. We need to freeze all money coming in or out of North Korea. And we must bolster our military to show the North that we will not stand by as the continue to act in such belligerent ways. If there is any war that should be fighting, any war that should have entered into before the mess we are in now in Afghanistan and Iraq, it should be one with North Korea. If we are really worried about freedom of a people. If we are really worried about the welfare of people, we would not have started two endless wars an against religious ideology. We must stay our hand. But we must make it very clear to Nort...

Over four and a half years ago I ended my first D&D campaign as a DM. It ran for about a year and it went really well. The players were kind of bummed out that is was ending, but I was getting burned out from the twice a month four hours sessions. I write all my own stuff and run in my own world, and I also tend to put a lot of detail in to my adventures. So, needless to say, it took up a lot of time to run 6 character from 1st to 15th level. Don't get me wrong, I loved it and still have found memories of that year, it was a blast. But university was calling and was taking up a lot of my time. Over these four and a half years my players have come to me on and off asking when I was going to start up the adventure again. My answer as always been, "I'm not sure", or, "I would love to but I just don't have the time." Both, understandably, not satisfying answers. My reluctance has been that I have felt like I kind of 'blew my load', if you'll ...