Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

No one could have predicted…

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

The words do not have to be perfect.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

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  2. 2.

    asiangrrlMN

    Kittehs! Kittehs! Tunchie!

    By the way, may I say, I kicked ass on NaNoWriMo this year, despite being brutally sick (which I still am).

    Also, anybody have anything good happen lately? I need a pick-me-up.

  5. 5.

    Sentient Puddle

    I scored two six-packs of Divine Reserve #9 today. That makes today a good day.

    That said, a pumpkin imperial stout…well, it may end up being a little too weird for me.

  6. 6.

    JK

    @asiangrrlMN:

    By the way, may I say, I kicked ass on NaNoWriMo this year, despite being brutally sick (which I still am).

    Sorry to hear that you’re still feeling under the weather. Get well soon.

  8. 8.

    Robertdsc-iphone

    For MW2 people, what’s your weapons loadout & perks setup?

    I use an M4A1 with ACOG scope & FMJ penetrators. My secondary is the AT-4 rocket. My perks are Bling (formerly Sleight-Of-Hand; I’m aiming for M4A1 mastery, hence FMJ), Lightweight, & Steady Aim Pro.

  10. 10.

    getsmartin

    @asiangrrlMN:
    Anything good? We witnessed the Saints thrash the Pats last night. Belichick’s expression of painful constipation was amusing, to say the least.

  12. 12.

    ellaesther

    @asiangrrlMN: Uhhh, lessee….

    Ok, hasn’t happened yet but will happen in two days: We’re going to see The Swell Season! (The folks from Once, for those who are ill-informed).

    We’ve seen them before and honestly, in a lifetime of concert-going, they were one of the best shows I’ve ever seen. Excellent, excellent musicians, terrific performers (as most former buskers are, I find), and just so thrilled to be doing what they do.

    But their songs do lean toward the melancholy! So I’ll leave you with this, the silly one: Broken Hearted Hoover Fixer Sucker Guy

    Congrats on the writing (I could never, in a million years, do that), and I’m sorry you’re still so ill!

  13. 13.

    asiangrrlMN

    @JK: Thanks. It really blows chunks, but my doc says it’s viral, so no new drugs.

    @getsmartin: Excellent! I don’t have cable, so I didn’t get to watch. I would have loved to have seen that game.

    ellaesther, I love love love Once, and I am totally jealous you’re getting to see The Swell Season. By the time I found out they were here, the tickets were sold out. Have fun for me!

  14. 14.

    jeffreyw

    Called Tracfone to ask where the replacement for the new phone was, the one they promised to send me after talking to them for 2 hours last week trying to get the phone to work. They said they have no record of sending me a new phone, but would be happy to help me get it working. 2 hours later they discovered that my new cell phone would not work, and they would need to send me a new one. I explained that we knew a week ago that the phone was bad, and that they had just spent another 2 hours getting to where we were a week ago. I further explained why I found that troublesome. They thanked me for being a valuable customer and for choosing Tracfone to be my cellular provider and how very sorry they were.

  16. 16.

    licensed to kill time

    @asiangrrlMN:

    My house is on a small cliff over the ocean, and flinging food to the gulls is a morning ritual. Old tortillas fly just like frisbees and have excellent aerobatic properties. Old hamburger buns look just like little UFO’s as they spin through the air. Old bread is disappointing, however – it tends to skew about wildly and fall short of the beach. I’m telling you this in case you ever have to chose between tortillas, hamburger buns or old bread in feeding gulls.

    Also, I saw a seal surfing in the waves today who dove and came up with a fish in his mouth – that was pretty cool.

    Tell that sickness brute to leave you alooooooone!

  18. 18.

    Mako

    I’m still confused about the zombie thing. They can’t die from malnutrition because they are already dead, but if i shoot off their heads they die because they can’t eat?

    Okay sure, you all will say, “Why is he obsessed with this?” but i was reading Nouriel Roubini years before the housing bubble meltdown…

  20. 20.

    ellaesther

    @licensed to kill time: Ok, that made me happy, too!

    Not to mention it was very servicey of you.

    @asiangrrlMN: Once is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen, really and truly. It slays me that it has an R rating — all that sweet, gentle longing, not a moment of violence or sexuality in sight, but holy moly, we can’t have children hearing adults say the F word!

  22. 22.

    asiangrrlMN

    @ellaesther: Ok, now I’m more pissed off than ever. Once being rated R is the biggest crock of shit I have ever heard! If I needed any more evidence that the rating system is fucking insanely batshitcrazy, this would put me right the fuck over the edge! I thought it was PG at the most! I cannot fucking stand the idiocy of the assholes on the rating board.

  23. 23.

    geg6

    I am feeling more than a little depressed. Don’t know if this seasonal affective disorder, the usual holiday suckage, our political and media cesspool, or how down on myself I am lately (due to financial stupidity which overtook me when I lived with the ex and paid for everything but never got my name put on the house or anything else). I’d like to discuss it with my John, but he’s going through some major stuff with his daughter and I hate to pile on.

    I won’t be around much until later this evening, but if you could all be as entertaining as possible until I get done with my financial aid night presentation later tonight, I would appreciate it. I could use a few of those famous BJ comedians to provide me with the laughs I need to snap out of it a little bit.

    Ok? Thanxbai.

  24. 24.

    asiangrrlMN

    @geg6: Aw, geg6, maybe it’s something in the air. There seems to be a lot of that going around. Hugs to you. I can’t guarantee I’ll bring the funny today, but I will send you positive vibes and lots of support.

  25. 25.

    licensed to kill time

    @asiangrrlMN: It is pretty neat. “The chillun”, as we call them, gather expectantly every morning and wait for the manna from heaven. They get into some nifty aerial maneuvers trying to snatch the food from each other. I always hear the gulls from Finding Nemo screaming “Mine! Mine! Mine!” in my head as I watch them.

    @ellaesther: Glad to give you a happy, too!

  26. 26.

    Sentient Puddle

    Oh, and I’m probably risking exponential levels of geektitude with this, but…

    New Lord of the Rings Online expansion today! Woot!

  28. 28.

    Dreggas

    @cleek:

    It’s eating mine too. I finally have a character I think I will finish with (this time through). Have tried nearly every combo of race/class/background. Now I am playing with an City elf Rogue specialized as a duellist and fully feated to wield two long swords.

    He currently is kicking some serious ass and the backstab dmg he does is extremely nice.

    Oh and Sten is the shit for dialog.

    Next I may go dwarven warrior, tried it out a bit and love the dwarven background.

  31. 31.

    Dreggas

    @Sentient Puddle:

    does it raise level cap? I may go back to LOTRO once I am finished with dragon age (if i ever am). Age of Conan rocked but got stale.

    For those with Dragonage i highly recommend doing Soldiers peak before anything else in the main plot. I won’t spoil it but doing that then pays dividends.

  32. 32.

    ellaesther

    @asiangrrlMN: In fact what you write is so sensible that I actually just double-checked: Yup, it’s an “R.”

    Though I have used Once as an object lesson in explaining to my 10 year old son that the American public is kind of weird about language. That he needs to be polite, sure, but that that he needs to understand that our culture is just kind of weird.

    (All the fucking swearing that I do all the god damn time here? My kids never hear it! I began to worry a bit when I realized that my first grade daughter’s teacher reads my blog, though…. Fucking hell!)

  33. 33.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Dreggas: Raises it to 65. And then the downsides…only one new skill at 62 for each class, it’s an “improved” skill, no new traits, no extra slots, and the cap on virtues is still 10.

    The whole Mirkwood zone is rather nice, though.

  35. 35.

    RedKitten

    I could use a few of those famous BJ comedians to provide me with the laughs I need to snap out of it a little bit.

    Thank goodness I’m not funny. I don’t think I could handle the pressure.

    Go look at the cute baby. You’ll feel better.

  36. 36.

    Zifnab

    @Dreggas:

    Oh and Sten is the shit for dialog.

    The tall anti-social foreigner? I’m shocked.

    I just went whole hog for the Dwarven Commoner Rogue. It kills me that once I get back to Orgrammar he actually has MORE PLOT specific to his origin. Short of being fired, I don’t have time to play this game another three or four times.

    It’s also annoying as hell that I can’t respec my guys. I think I’d mix up the party more if I didn’t worry about coming back to Morrigan or Wynn and find a total crap build in my wake.

    And I just got the Gay Elf Assassin, too! *sadness*

  37. 37.

    Dreggas

    @Zifnab:

    The tall anti-social foreigner? I’m shocked.

    Your party is standing in front of a closet with someone in it. Sten says:

    “Hmmm sounds like a small human, I say we burn it out.”

    He also has some great downtime lines as you are wandering around.

  38. 38.

    asiangrrlMN

    @ellaesther: Yeah, I double-checked, too. Stupid. I would rather my hypothetical kids hear some swearing than see eleven-billionty bodies get blown to bits. Once is in my top five fave movies. I still can’t believe it’s rated R.

    @arguingwithsignposts: Yeah, maybe I’ll wait on that. I’m glad you had a good turkey break.

    RedKitten, that is the cutest baby evah! And the caption cracked me up.

  40. 40.

    Dreggas

    I think there is a lot of plot stuff for both sides to the dwarves, common and royalty, once you get back to Orzimmar. Like I said I briefly did both when trying out characters.

    My party consists of Sten and Alistair backing up my rogue and Morrigan feated with CC spells. She is surprisingly effective if you don’t mind switching between her and other party members in a fight.

  44. 44.

    gex

    @asiangrrlMN: Have you seen “This Movie is Not Yet Rated?”

    One of my favorite parts is that the industry behind the draconian anti-copy laws quite clearly and brazenly illegally copied his movie.

    Whenever moral scolds band together and act as a superior authority protecting us from ourselves, you can bet you will find nefarious deeds.

  45. 45.

    Zifnab

    @Dreggas:

    My party consists of Sten and Alistair backing up my rogue and Morrigan feated with CC spells. She is surprisingly effective if you don’t mind switching between her and other party members in a fight.

    If you take the time to aim her area effect spells, she’s a beast. Between Sleep, the confusion spell, the lightning cone, the frost cone, and the Mind Blast area stun, I’ve got crowd control more than covered.

  47. 47.

    Svensker

    @RedKitten:

    Go look at the cute baby. You’ll feel better.

    What baby? All I saw were some cheeks wearing a hat and coat. :)

    (Cute baby!)

  51. 51.

    asiangrrlMN

    @gex: Good to see ya. Like I told arguing, I think I will wait on that one. I am just too pissed off in general right now.

    @Dreggas: Kitteh! Yeah, that is a cute kitteh. Need moar kitteh!

    TUUUUNCH!

  53. 53.

    Mako

    @RedKitten:

    Go look at the cute baby. You’ll feel better.

    Winston Churchill walks into a bar. Everyone thinks he looks just like their newborn.

  54. 54.

    bemused

    @Mako:
    Thanksgiving day a relative & his son had a huge argument on the drive to dinner about the best type of gun to use to kill a zombie. Son was pulling his dad’s chain, he loves to get his dad going, but dad fell for it. Families are weird.

  55. 55.

    Dreggas

    @Zifnab:

    The storm AoE spell under the ice section (can’t remember the name) was particularly helpful in places, knocks down and slows enemies while also doing dmg. Use that in combination with everyone wielding bows/crossbows and it’s cake in a few places. The staff from soldiers peak is a beast too, not so good against undead but then again the mage isn’t being relied on for dps with a weapon.

  57. 57.

    Zifnab

    @Dreggas:

    The staff from soldiers peak is a beast too, not so good against undead but then again the mage isn’t being relied on for dps with a weapon.

    Is that in Denedrium? Haven’t seen any good wizard gear yet and I have no idea where soldier’s peak is. I’m hoping its at the one place I haven’t visited.

  59. 59.

    demkat620

    Dear Barack Obama,

    The Secret Service allowing two people into the WH who were not on the guest list is an impeachable offense. We will be demanding that Congress begin said procedings against you immediately.

    Love and kisses,

    The MSM and Tweety!

  62. 62.

    bemused

    @geg6:
    I read that many of us lack enough vitamin D, esp this time of year with fewer hours of sunlight. Since I’ve made sure to get more D, I feel much less blah during the winter months.

  65. 65.

    jeffreyw

    @Maude: I have burned right through furious and am at smoldering resentment. After a night’s sleep I may be back to pissed and spitting.

  66. 66.

    Corner Stone

    @Mako: Totally disagree. It’s clearly the Benelli M4 shotgun.
    Or possibly the now outlawed Street Sweeper.
    Hmmm…outlawed..those bastards! They saw the inevitable zombie nation uprising and outlawed the single most effective weapon against zombies we could have!

  67. 67.

    demkat620

    @Corner Stone: I don’t have a problem with somebody looking at this but good god, the way these people are acting like this is the worst thing ever kills me.

    They had no time to do due diligence in the run up to Iraq. No time to investigate who leaked Valerie Plames name but this they have endless hours for this.

    It’s bullshit.

  69. 69.

    The Populist

    I am feeling more than a little depressed. Don’t know if this seasonal affective disorder, the usual holiday suckage, our political and media cesspool, or how down on myself I am lately (due to financial stupidity which overtook me when I lived with the ex and paid for everything but never got my name put on the house or anything else). I’d like to discuss it with my John, but he’s going through some major stuff with his daughter and I hate to pile on.

    I’m with ya’. I have not been posting anything of late, anywhere on the net. Too busy with business, too busy with keeping things going and tiring of the bullcrap I see on forums with the mouthbreathers telling the rest of us how Obama is the reason we are falling apart. Gee, not racism right wingers? I am not particularly a fan of Obama’s leadership but you know? I am willing to give him time to show me what he can do and barely a year is NOT the reason why the mess is what it is.

    If these jacaklopes would stop for a minute and use the brains they claim that GOD gave them maybe they’d realize the mess would be bigger if it wasn’t for some things Obama did at the beginning of his presidency.

    The next retard who tells me that the stimulus failed better show me their crystal ball…stimulus doesn’t show up in the indicators for up to a year or more. If the right would wake up and realize that it’s not foolish to spend on infrastructure and shore up the economy until things level out that would be great. Problem is these idiots do not think. They won’t think. If we did what McCain and the right most certainly would have done in Obama’s place (NOTHING) then we’d all be fucked worse than anything.

    If you have proof of the stimulus failing, show me with concrete proof. Not Glenn Beck or Rush Limbaugh’s histronics…PROOF!

  70. 70.

    Dreggas

    @Zifnab:

    This is probably where I’ll make you cry…did you download the premium content (there’s two pieces for sale) or did you pre-order the game (in which case it came with it)?

    If either one is the case, soldier’s peak is the very top part of the world map (should be a yellow icon). You get the quest to go there from some dude in your camp early on.

    Like I said it’s a great place to visit early in the game but I don’t wanna spoil it.

  71. 71.

    The Populist

    I might also add had the right not gotten us into dumb wars, spent all of Clinton’s surplus and given rich people generous tax breaks maybe there wouldn’t be the big mess we are seeing now.

    Yeppers, it’s all Obama’s fault that 8+ years of Republican rule has done the damage we are seeing now.

    Republicans, you like sports right? You tell me that we don’t need regulation yet why not ditch all rules and refs at any sporting event? I mean, c’mon, we can trust the players to do the right thing and play honestly, RIGHT?

    Idiots each and every one of them.

  73. 73.

    Mark S.

    @Dreggas:

    Yeah, I’ve met that dude. I’m not that interested in paying more after I shelled out $50 for the game.

    I’m not very far along in the game, but I was wondering what everybody else uses as the makeup of their party. I read someone say you should have two mages, one for healing and one for kicking butt. I’m at a part where I had to leave my rogue at home, and I’m not really missing her. Those locked chests generally don’t have anything too exciting, as far as I can tell.

  74. 74.

    DZ

    @AsiangrrlMN:

    Something good? Well, just more than 2 years after my wife died and after 3 bouts with cancer, I am cancer-free and healthy, and I have a new woman friend. She lives 6000 miles away, but life is better than it has been for some time. Glorioski.

  75. 75.

    smiley

    Open thread so here we go (I haven’t read the thread yet but I doubt anyone has posted this. I’d love to get that kind of attention in the classes I teach (I’d also love to be able to confiscate cell phones upon entering the room but, unfortunately, my university won’t back me up.)

  76. 76.

    cleek

    @dmsilev:

    yes indeed.

    i’m glad i’m unemployed right now. i can spend a nice 10 hours/day on it !

    Dreggas:

    Now I am playing with an City elf Rogue

    ima country elf rogue, m’self. golllee! looky them tall bildins!

  77. 77.

    asiangrrlMN

    @DZ: Aw, that’s heartwarming. Congrats on being cancer-free and the new woman friend. Distance is less problematic these days with all our modes of transportation. Thanks for sharing!

    @smiley: What a sweet pic. Now, let’s see how it really means Obama is indoctrinating our children or something.

  78. 78.

    Rex

    Regarding the advertisements on this site.

    Typically I use adblocking software and for this I apologize. Recently I unblocked advertisements for this site and was surprised to see some pretty racy ads. I can forgive the constant barrage of Sarah Palin ads but today there was a large sidebar ad with a girl in lingerie and the caption “See My Ex-girlfriend Naked!”

    Didn’t you just have a fundraiser? Are times really this lean at BJ World HQ?

  79. 79.

    Dreggas

    @Mark S.:

    If you can spare the gold, I just make a ton of potions with one mage so I can have some extra melee power. As for the premium content, so far it’s been worth it to add on to the game. I pre-ordered so the content came with the game.

    I keep my rogue along since the XP for trap disarming and chest popping is handy and since i have the extra fire power. The two rogues I have met in game so far (the assassin and the bard) tend to be useless when it comes to lockpicking unless you manage them when levelling up.

  81. 81.

    Betsy

    @asiangrrlMN:
    Despite having miserable insomnia last night, I was able to get done some shit that I’ve been behind on for weeks. Maybe the sleepiness killed the perfectionism. Although that *could* be a bad thing…Nah, I’m gonna go with good thing.

  83. 83.

    Gravenstone

    @Mark S.:

    Yeah, I’ve met that dude. I’m not that interested in paying more after I shelled out $50 for the game.

    I’m not very far along in the game, but I was wondering what everybody else uses as the makeup of their party. I read someone say you should have two mages, one for healing and one for kicking butt. I’m at a part where I had to leave my rogue at home, and I’m not really missing her. Those locked chests generally don’t have anything too exciting, as far as I can tell.

    Dead thread, I know. My ultimate party on first play through (70 hours, Dalish rogue) was Wynne, Morrigan and Oghren. CC and Healer made most fights quite manageable. And yes, you get used to micromanaging every damned move to get the best out of them. Combined with my rogue sneaking around trapping the bejesus out of everything before bringing up the rest of the party and opening a Sneak Attack can of whoopass on the biggest baddy.

    Bought the CE, so I got the Stone Prisoner DLC along with it. Splurged on the Soldier’s Peak DLC rather late in that play through, so it was of limited benefit. Now about 6 hours into second play through (Elvish Magi – just leaving Lothering) and plan to hit SP in the morning before any of the other main plot. I expect the benefit will be much greater this early. Let me just say, I heart Fireball. That is all.

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