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From Rep. Barney Frank (D.-MA), the Congressman leading the Democrats in negotiating the bailout deal in the House Financial Services Committee, yesterday, commenting to a group of reporters about John McCain’s “campaign suspension”/debate pull-out stunt:

“It’s the longest Hail Mary pass in the history of either football or Marys.”

LOVE.

Ignore for a second that McCain “suspending” his campaign is a blatant political stunt.

Ignore for a second that neither he nor Obama are on the Financial Services Committee, and hence would not able to be involved at all in coming up with a plan for a bail-out.

Yes, let’s pretend that we’re one of those voters who has zero understanding of how the Senate actually operates, and therefore might be buying this whole “hero rides in to save the day” bullshit.

What about the bailout itself? McCain, in an interview on Tuesday, admitted that he wasn’t familiar with Secretary Paulson’s plan, because he “hadn’t seen it in writing.”

Dude — Paulson’s plan was released to the web on Friday the 19th. The New York Times published it in full on Sunday the 21st. It’s like THREE PAGES LONG.

McCain hadn’t seen it by Tuesday?

I saw it on Friday. I guess that means I’m more qualified to solve this problem….

Please — if you know anybody who might be falling for this stunt — point this stuff out to them.

Now that the cat is out of the bag, I can confirm it publicly:

I’m now officially working for Cubicle 7 Entertainment, publishers of Starblazer Adventures, Victoriana and the forthcoming Doctor Who RPG.

The site lists me as “Development & New Media” — which covers the various gigs I’ll be doing for them: editing, graphic design & layout, PDF management, North American convention rep, general development, etc.

Fans of Adamant shouldn’t fret — I’ll be continuing that as well (and Adamant will be partnering with C7 on distribution of several of our products into the print market — Tales of New Crobuzon for example).

It’s great to be able to work with and Co., and I’m absolutely thrilled to be a part of their plans.