Politics

I’m always on the lookout for some scratch, a little something to get my crate further along the New Eden power curve. That’s how I wound up in the awful backwater system of Eitu III.

While on the way to drop off some hitchhikers looking for a free ride to Oiniken, I get this vidmail from some yap in Eitu by the name of Okita…Okito…Okaydokey, whatever. Anyway, he said he got my name from a contractor I did business with a few years back - I can’t recall the guy, but that’s not surprising since I tend to remember ISK better than names

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I was originally going to write about something entirely different, but the events of the day have served to hijack this post. Instead, I want to make one of my rare political blog postings and address something that has been getting on my nerves today as coverage of the shooting blossoms.

Here goes:

Today’s tragedy in Arizona, where a “pot-smoking loner” shot and killed or wounded numerous individuals, including Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and U.S. District Judge John Roll, is a reminder that when one enters into the world of politics, danger is always ...

I was going to write a blog entry on all the shenanigans going on at the DNC Convention. You know, the bald-faced lies; the radicalism; the Marxist rhetoric; the vicious verbal (and almost physical) assaults on some FOX News correspondents and conservative columnists; the consistent portrayal of America in the worst possible light by leftist demagogues; the Obama cult of personality; the Clinton cult of personality… well, you get the idea. But in keeping with the old adage that a picture is worth a thousand words, I decided just to post this pic:

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There has been a lot said about the manifest left-wing lunacy of Hollywood, but it has always struck me as very interesting that another portion of modern entertainment media, indeed, a portion that is beginning to eclipse Hollyweird itself, is largely free of preachy left-wing nonsense. No, I’m not referring to television; I’m speaking about gaming. Why is it that the average game is actually quite conservative in its outlook? Perhaps it’s because liberalism is just incompatible with the highly-competitive world of gaming (after all, how do you make a game where no one is allowed to do better ...

With the recent release of Grand Theft Auto IV, the uber-bad boy of video gaming, a great deal of ink and airtime has been devoted to bemoaning the evils of modern gaming. Now, while I do believe there is more than a little truth to the criticisms that have been hurled at Rock Star Games’ latest effort to push gaming’s envelope of tolerability, I also believe that there is much ado about nothing surrounding this issue. Just because there are those individuals who revel in ever acting the part of the class clown, this does not mean that an entire industry is to be condemned. After all, does the ...