Midtown Toys has moved to the Oak Court Mall at Poplar and Perkins and has renamed themselves Quest Games. They are opening today, so I thought I would clean myself up and go and visit them, Warhammer 40K stuff in hand. Maybe I’ll get to play a game or two. I know I’ll get some painting done. Wish me luck.

UPDATE: That’s what I get for trying to be first in line. They’re still working on the store and it won’t be open until tomorrow. So I’ll try again later.

Here is an interesting article, Only Money:Campaign finance reform bites supporters in the rear.

It goes into detail about the burden put on the 501(c)3 organizations, but not on the 527′s (both labeled because that’s the section of the tax code they fall under).

In the Internet age, such discussion and activity have translated into scores of thousands of Web sites, magazines, and other widely available packages of information. Maybe when they no longer receive Sierra magazine in their mailboxes, journalists will understand how campaign finance reform abridges free speech.

Read the whole thing.

I thought Michigan was a free state? Detroit contractors must tell slave past.

Of course, slavery ended officially in 1862 with the Emancipation Proclamation. But not for some people. Detroit wants contractors for city contracts to, “search their backgrounds, and then sign an affidavit divulging investments and income from the slave industry.”

The simple answer to the form is LINE 1, “this business was formed after 1863.” That would save a lot of people a lot of paperwork. But bureaucrats never take the simple road, it would put them out of a job.

Then you have the people who have a clear political agenda:

Elder Eykkeo’, 65, of Detroit said this ordinance moves blacks a step closer to receiving reparations.

I am all for giving, say, $100,000 to any person who was born a slave or is the direct first generation offspring of a slave. Anybody else is looking for a free ride. With all of the blacks that have immigrated to the US since 1865, how are you going to tell them apart? Or should we just pay everybody who is at least 1/8th black, no matter what the circumstances?