Gaming news: GenCon SoCal report by Peter Adkison. Also, remember that contest to create a D&D setting? Here's the winner, Eberron. (Both courtesy Magistrate.)
Onion AV Club rages on with its cheap toy roundup, the best albums of 2003 and the ever popular least essential albums of 2003.
NEWS:
* Why Hussein shouldn't get the death penalty.
* Iraqi supporters and opponents of Hussein both felt he should have fought to the death.
* US quietly suggesting its citizens get out of Saudi Arabia.
* Egyptians have big political questions coming up.
* White House engages in more website revisionist history.
* Canada's tolerant culture tested. Meanwhile, France just takes a couple steps back.
* We can only face extremists if we try to understand them.
* The casulty of campaign finance.