This whole past year, we've had uneducated, frothing-at-the-mouth, brainwashed idiots threatening violence and secession against the government. Corporate-backed "Grassroots" Astroturf movements, several Republicans, and just about everyone on Fox News did their damndest to egg them on and encourage their overblown stupidity ( Read more... )

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/21/betsy-mccaugheys-ideas-ca_n_264970.htmlRead more... )

Republicans aren't interested in cooperating. They want to stonewall and sabotage every single effort at getting good health care passed. They've had 8 years to prevent all this from happening, and fucked up royally. Forget trying to appease them. Shame on them and whoever else is funding the "Grassroots" movements. All they're doing is taking ( Read more... )

Wait. Whatever happened to the debate about Healthcare? Half a year ago wasn't it about taxes and tea parties? Methinks there's just some paranoid, racist people in there trying to take advantage of everyone's insecurities and just rile everyone up. Anyway... THAT issue aside ( Read more... )

I turned 23 on the 2nd. Last Week. Belated self-birthday post. That aside, I don't know what to say much about, nowadays.

Article here: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/politics/2009256798_conmem24.html

I'm fine with it. He's honoring the soldiers who fought for the Confederacy. That doesn't necessarily equate to them being Pro-Slavery. Most Confederate soldiers didn't even own slaves; they were too poor to. Only a select few in the richest echelons of Southern ( Read more... )

FUCK YEAH!

http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=23518

3D Realms, independent developer of the Duke Nukem action franchise, is closing its doors and its employees being let go, according to multiple industry sources.

News of the closure was ( Read more... )

I finally got my Epic Flight training in WoW. ZOOM ZOOM ZOOOOOM!

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/johann-hari/the-dark-side-of-dubai-1664368.html

This pretty much cements my doubts about the place. It's a huge trap. Don't ever go there.