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So here I am driving to shop with my mom, minding my own business, listening devotedly to my NPR, when a charming Brittish woman begins her story on Saddam Hussein’s side-job as a romance writer. But when she identified the genre, I almost wrecked the car….
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An op-ed in the Boston Globe on why Dungeons & Dragons, the role playing game celebrating its 30th (!) anniversary this year, is exactly the kind of toy parents like to wish their children would play with. (kind of the opposite of “occult paraphernalia“, yeah? heh.) [via boingboing]