So Cheney gets up there and basically says, “If you elect John Kerry we’re going to be attacked by terrorists.” (What he actually said was more vague, closer to “If this country makes the wrong decision in November, we’re more likely to be attacked by terrorists”, but what he meant was pretty clear.) And today the Republican party is having a field day with our dead, capitalizing off the 9/11 tragedy and waving it around like a banner for their election campaign. This is just flat-out nauseating in and of itself, but what I really don’t understand is why some Democrats don’t get up there and simply say, “This happened on your watch. This administration failed to defend America from Al-Qaeda, and continues to do so. Osama bin Laden is still at large, the 9/11 tragedy occurred while on the Republican watch, and if Bush hadn’t been asleep at the wheel over 3,000 Americans would still be alive today.”
I don’t get it. I just don’t get it.
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I'm the Director of the Games and Simulation program at Miami University in Ohio, where I am also an Assistant Professor in the College of Creative Arts' Emerging Technology in Business and Design department. I'm also the director of Miami's Worldbuilding and Narrative Design Research Laboratory (WNDRLab). I have a Master's in Comparative Media Studies from MIT and a PhD in Media Arts and Practices from the University of Southern California.
In past lives I've been the lead Narrative Producer for Microsoft Studios and cofounder of its Narrative Design team, working on projects like Hololens, Quantum Break and new IP incubation; in a "future of media" think tank for Microsoft's CXO/CTO and its Chief Software Architect; the Creative Director for the University of Southern California's World Building Media Lab and the Technical Director, Creative Director and a Research Fellow for USC's Annenberg Innovation Lab; a Visiting Assistant Professor at Whittier College and director of its Whittier Other Worlds Laboratory (WOWLab); the Communications Director and a researcher for the Singapore-MIT GAMBIT Game Lab; a founding member of the Convergence Culture Consortium at MIT (now The Futures of Entertainment); a magazine editor; and a award-winning short film producer. more »
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