Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

This fight is for everything.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

White supremacy is terrorism.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

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  4. 4.

    lamh35

    Ugh, I have got to get my mother out of Cincinnatti! Like Ced the Entertainer says “I wish a muthafuckah would…”

    Exclusive: ‘White Only’ Pool Sign Owner Explains

    A female landlord, Jamie Hein, had a sign that read, “Public Swimming Pool, White Only” hanging on a gate at her house and her private pool. (Photo credit: Ohio Civil Rights Commission) An Ohio landlord accused of discriminating against an African-American girl with a “white only” sign at her swimmi…

  7. 7.

    scav

    @cathyx: My thought too (either that or he’s put up a long-anticipated pile of rocks to the southwest), and I furthermore think JC is begging for, or at least asking for, a worser worser and worstest earworm thread.

  9. 9.

    GrandWazoo

    SWTOR is Star Wars: The Old Republic MMORPG, I do believe. Not my flavor but I do see the appeal.

  11. 11.

    splittee

    well thanks for bringing it up again, asshole. this is like that maniacal game where the only rule is that you’re not allowed to think about the game or else you lose.

  12. 12.

    Judas Escargot

    Andrew Sullivan actually typed the words “automatic liberal media bias” while writing about Fox’s Ron Paul coverage (or lack of it). And I don’t think it was meant ironically.

    (That said, I do agree that Chris Wallace should recuse himself from the GOP debate tonight. But he won’t, of course).

  13. 13.

    WereBear

    I very seriously thought about banning DougJ for life today, because I have had that hideous Paul McCartney song stuck in my head for days.

    Yes. DougJ is owed DAYS OF KARMA.

  14. 14.

    lamh35

    ok, IDK what the hell I’m watching, but…

    1. someone tell me WTF is up with the Japanese fascination with women dressed as school girls? I think I no, but there has to be some cultural explanation too right???

    2. Has anyone ever seen “Blood: The Last Vampire”? The CGI are so “frugal”, but ya gotta love CGI blood splatter right.

    3. How the hell does this chick keep her skirt socks from rolling down her ankle during and after all these damn martial arts moves, jumps, kicks, splits…etc? I needs to know.

    Just random thoughts.

  15. 15.

    Lyrebird

    @GrandWazoo: Thanks… I hope they’ll come up with an Ankh-Morpork MMORPG, too, just bc it would be cute!

    And on the general topic, I like my “War Is Over” former-Beatle earworm much better, thanks.

  16. 16.

    gaz

    @lamh35: Pretty sure it’s that lucasfilm star wars franchise game…

    One of the online variety that regularly saps a monthly fee…

    Personally, I’m still playing skyrim.

    And by the time I’m done, bethesda will have hopefully worked out either a major add on to Fallout New Vegas, or they’ll have a huge pack for skyrim.

    I figure I’ll start playing SWTOR sometime in 2024

  20. 20.

    lamh35

    ok, since there are a lot of gamers here.

    I have a question. I”m sure I”ve asked it before, but whatevs.

    I have a Nintendo Wii. I used to have a Gamefly account, but I cancelled it because it was a waste of time since the games I like to play don’t seem to be in large supply.

    So my question to ya’ll is: what games would ya’ll recommend for someone who liked CSI, first person, mysterys and adventure games? Would I like “uncharted”???

    I do like to play combat games, but since I play alone, combat games like Mortal Kombat are not as fun to me as beating someone else.

    Any suggestions?

  24. 24.

    gaz

    @lamh35: Regarding that “whites only” mess.

    I’m not sure what was worse. The actual incident, or the site where I found the story being trolled by some asshole who argued that the “white’s only” sign was not racist, and blamed all of teh libruls for playing the race card.

    It wasn’t a drive by either. He not only doubled down, but he kept coming back with that again and again. Greg-something, IIRC

    made me want to vomit.

  25. 25.

    lamh35

    @piratedan: I figure as much, but the Japanese just seem to love em more particularly ones who look “cute and girlish” in uniforms, but can kick some major ass!

    It can’t all be sexual though right?

  26. 26.

    MosesZD

    Missed the early invite by a few days. So I won’t get in until tomorrow AM.

    So, die you dog! ;)

    Seriously, though, it’s not that big of a deal. I was going to wait until 2012 to start playing. Let it all calm down.

    But the last two beta-test weekends pushed me to consider starting early… Then they started the early-access period earlier and I figured ‘what the heck.’

    So, what server, btw?

  28. 28.

    gaz

    @lamh35: Sadly, on the WII, most of the good stuff is largely the old school emulated NES games and such.

    However, I do know of one very interesting, very well done game, it’s an adventure game. Quite fun. Very novel graphics (entire game looks like watercolors).

    It’s called Okami. I can’t recommend it enough.

  31. 31.

    piratedan

    @lamh35: all I can speak to that just about all school/slice of life manga has the school uniform (for boys and girls) running thru it, it’s that societal conformity thing I suppose)

    @cathyx: true, just stating that this is a common theme in japanese manga and anime and from my limited understanding of their societal mores, much less of a hangup in their culture than ours.

  34. 34.

    BO_Bill

    Truth is most effectively ascertained by Geometry, and is proven to be absolute in the 47th Proposition of Euclid. Namely, the sum of the squares of two sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse. From there, everything becomes slightly more foggy, one specific example being those persistent rumors that I am some manifestation of DougJ’s desire, in one of those deep, dark places within his (my) fallible human heart, to be a straight white male.

    Now, HEREBY and Hereon, FOREVER Forth know the following: Should this rumor be True, it is only because I like to touch goats.

  36. 36.

    WereBear

    Okay, just checking, was I supposed to be hysterical about something President Obama did or didn’t do about the defense appropriations bill and indefinite detention, because I am confounded by the chaff thrown in the air on the google at this point in time, thanks?:
    Didn’t someone cite their congressman? I am unable to google it out.

  41. 41.

    Raven

    @gbear:
    You’re comin’ to me with that soulful look on your face.
    Coming lookin’ like you’ve never ever done one wrong thing.

  42. 42.

    gaz

    @lamh35: The only reason I don’t like uncharted is because for that sort of game, I really prefer to have at least some form of remedial auto-targeting, or the game gets tedious.

    I’ve never played it on the WII though. I used to own it for the PS3 but I gave it away. I just don’t tend to like the results of mixing Action/Adventure with FPS, which is kind of what uncharted was to me.

    If *you* are big FPS fan – AND if it bears a passing resemblance to the PS3 version, you may enjoy it, though.

    Okami is still the shit though. Hands down =)

  45. 45.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    @WereBear:

    Don’t know if you are on Twitter but ABL has been fighting the lunatics about this all day, her constant screams of “read the fucking bill and not what GG says about it” have fallen on deaf ears. I do not know how she keeps her sanity.

  47. 47.

    Roger Moore

    @lamh35:

    Has anyone ever seen “Blood: The Last Vampire”? The CGI are so “frugal”, but ya gotta love CGI blood splatter right.

    Yeah. The animation is nice but a real story would have helped a lot. If you’re going to do a vampire Anime, give me Vampire Hunter D any day.

  49. 49.

    Cris (without an H)

    @gaz: Okami was born to be ported to Wii. Since its feature of distinction is a magic paintbrush, I just can’t imagine playing it with analog stick in it’s original form (Playstation I think?)

    Anyway, I agree with your recommendation. I just wish they’d left off Issun’s puerile sexist remarks.

  50. 50.

    The Other Chuck

    @piratedan:

    true, just stating that this is a common theme in japanese manga and anime and from my limited understanding of their societal mores, much less of a hangup in their culture than ours.

    To me, a constant and pervasive fixation on infantalizing depictions of women speaks of some really major hangups to me. The Japanese are just as fucked up as we are, just in different ways. When it comes to pop culture, they make us look like highbrow sophisticates.

  53. 53.

    Chuck Butcher

    @Raven:

    I still haven’t found the time to really play Skyrim.

    It will eat time like it’s … free? The thing is huge, I started it over at Lvl 54 with 329 locations discovered because at “Adept” game difficulty I was essentially invulnerable and had bugged several quests (and I’d finished the main line). Bethesda just sent me a download last night which I hope fixes some of the cockups. One complaint I have is that the Random characters don’t level up as you do and become no more than gnats, even in the high double digit numbers.

  54. 54.

    lamh35

    Does Hellboy count as a Christmas movie? It’s Christmastime and I’m watching Hellboy, so……

  55. 55.

    Roger Moore

    @lamh35:

    someone tell me WTF is up with the Japanese fascination with women dressed as school girls?

    I’m not sure how much you can read about Japanese culture in general by watching Anime. Although some of it is aimed at older people, it skews almost as heavily toward young people as American animation does. If they have a lot of shows that focus on sexy teenagers, that’s probably because the target audience largely consists of teenagers with typical teen interest in sex.

  56. 56.

    gaz

    @Litlebritdifrnt: I loves me some ABL. She’s one of the main reasons I visit BJ, and I look forward to her posts with the glee of kid on christmas.

    But on matters of Obama, I don’t put much stock in her opinion. If she says something regarding something Obama did or didn’t do, I tend to want a second opinion. It’s not that shes outright mendacious, but she’s bent over backward to support some of his actions in the past. She’s not always wrong, but on matters of Obama, it’s how she behaves when she *is* wrong that blows it for me. Funny thing about that last sentence. I say the exact same thing about Glenn Greenwald. Same dynamic, different players.

    And frankly, I don’t think the bill has much to do with Obama in any case.

    Disclaimer: I didn’t read the bill. But I read the whitepaper they released with it. It doesn’t pass the smell test.

    When I see the words Medicare and Reform appear adjacent to each other on some written text, it usually tends to tickle my bullshit detector. I do not support this bill. You don’t need to read the whole bill to see what you are being sold. Read the whitepaper. It’s mendacious garbage.

  57. 57.

    Judas Escargot

    @khead:

    I still haven’t found the time to really play Skyrim.

    I’ve only been able to play 15 hours or so of it. So Skyrim is where I plan to vacation over the xmas break.

    A game where you can waste 45 minutes in a cave harvesting rare mushrooms to sell topside (because, you know, you can) is probably going to take me a year or more to finish…

  60. 60.

    Seanly

    Only 2012? I think the game will keep me occupied until 2013. I’m hoping I don’t lose my wife & new job over it.

    Plus I am still playing Skyrim… praise FSM that it is pretty cold here or I wouldn’t have an excuse to stay in.

  61. 61.

    Cacti

    Since it’s an open thread…

    This Federal employee is getting awfully tired of the possibility of being furloughed every 3-4 months.

    Fucking Republicans.

  62. 62.

    Hill Dweller

    HuffPo and Reuters are reporting congress has reached a tentative deal to fund the government through Sept. 2012.

    The devil will be in the details, but I hope the Dems didn’t give away the store.

  63. 63.

    gaz

    @Chuck Butcher: Wow.

    Too many instances of butthurt, rat-fuckery and weird legislative shenanigans for me to keep track of in one news cycle.

    Shit. I can’t keep up.

    Last I heard on the this front, it seemed that indefinite detention of US citizens either wasn’t the outcome of the bill, or that it was already allowed for under existing statute. I’ve been meaning to catch up, but on this, so far as I can tell, it seems ABL is correct.

    Or is this yet another bill?

    Too much BS for one day. She can’t take much more of this, captain!

  64. 64.

    amk

    @WereBear: The DA bill passed with veto proof 86 to 13 and yet Obama is the pinata. Some times, I wonder whether the left hates him more than the wingnutz.

  67. 67.

    Cacti

    @lamh35:

    Romney’s Experience Of Poverty: Living In A Parisian Mansion. Egads I hate that prick Romney. Ugh smug smiling lying ass

    And of course, when Mittens was “slumming” it in Provence, his peers were getting shot at in the rice paddies of Vietnam.

    But he really wishes he could have gone.

    *puke*

  68. 68.

    gaz

    @Cacti: Yeah. My wife works for our state. She’s received some furlough…

    But the worst part was when so many of her coworkers were laid off in the latest round.

    The pisser is, she’s got the least seniority out of nearly the whole office (newish employee), but she’s multilingual, and very good at navigating the bureaucratic cespit effectively.

    So despite her neophyte status, she’s one of the few employees who is nearly impossible to riff, or lay off.

    Her coworkers were resentful enough when she went from temp to perm in under a year.

    After the layoffs, I think some of her coworkers actually hate her now…

    I suppose Job security is a mixed blessing when the people you work with don’t have it.

    Layoffs suck.

  69. 69.

    Hill Dweller

    @amk: I speculated yesterday that Obama dropped his veto threat because he saw the writing on the wall(enough votes to override his veto), and wanted to save face. I still expect him to write a signing statement.

  71. 71.

    Chuck Butcher

    @gaz:
    At some point, maybe in far distant future in a far distant land Congress will just go ahead and look out for the interests of most of its citizenry. Or for cripes sake at least manage some possibly repairable half-steps like ACA. I honestly don’t think nearly half of Congress knows what thin ice this economy is on or fucking care that it is.

  72. 72.

    kwAwk

    This is so inside it’s cryptic.

    Can I do a Google search on “What Paul McCartney song did dougj refer to a couple days ago.

  77. 77.

    Hill Dweller

    @Chuck Butcher: The Republicans think the economy sucking is great when a Democrat is in the White House. They are nihilists, pure and simple. In a sane world, they(senate Republicans especially) would have been pilloried by the press for what they’ve done since Obama was sworn in. It was gone way beyond the typical political fighting.

    Col. Lawrence Wilkerson(former Colin Powell Chief of Staff and Republican) essentially accused them of sedition last night on Maddow’s show. He came right out and said their only goal was destroying Obama at all costs.

  78. 78.

    gaz

    @Chuck Butcher: Skyrim right?

    Playing on PC here – Level 30 so far.
    68 game days passed, but can’t find an actual realtime hour count (where?)

    Currently getting my ass handed to me by a frost dragon outside riverwood.

    (I beat him before but not before he killed the blacksmith! bastard – I had to reload – heh)

    After level 20, the time between levels was reduced dramatically for me, as now I can train with impunity (as I have effectively unlimited gold)… so I figure I’ll have it ripped up in a couple of months =)

  82. 82.

    gaz

    @Hill Dweller: True.

    Our shameful fourth estate has about as much to blame for the state of things as any political operative.

    Pretty sad that you often have to go outside the country for the scoop on the latest steaming pile of US foreign policy disaster, etc.

  86. 86.

    khead

    @Chuck Butcher:

    If on Xbox Live you can Friend me at cbutcher1 and I can offer a couple tips to ease your life w/o “cheating”.

    May have to take you up on that offer….

  87. 87.

    ItAintEazy

    @lamh35:

    It’s just chuunibyou fare, don’t look too much into it.

    If there’s any fascination with seera fuku amongst Japanese men, it’s because it reminds them of the time they supposedly had the most fun and freedom, back in high school.

  89. 89.

    gaz

    I’ve got teh biggest baddest kitteh on my street. He’s a Maine Coon, and about 20lbs of muscle and fur.

    He makes sure that we have a 30 yard perimeter around our property clear of all non-bipedal life. He thinks he’s a badass.

    He’s also the biggest whiner ever.

    Little monster constantly whines at me about everything. Sometimes I think he does it just to hear himself.

    He’s too funny – my teddy bear kitteh. (of course he refuses to sit on laps – but that doesn’t stop him from demanding constant luvvvs)… I’ll need to start seeing a chiropractor over this shit soon – heh)

  90. 90.

    Chuck Butcher

    @gaz:
    Skyrim
    Get Lovers Stone for 15% skills
    make iron daggers repeatedly for Smithing
    enchant them w/petty stones for enchanting
    always sell multiple items singly not (12/12) – speech (sell daggers)
    if you’re just walking – shoot flames, destruction

    Cheap and fast ways to up skills

  91. 91.

    Shinobi

    Was really hoping to get somewhere in Skyrim before SWTOR came out. My old WoW guild is porting over to SWTOR. (We’ve been playing league of legends for the past year or so.)

    Pretty excited for whenever I actually get my code. Sadly I will probably be gone so long that I wont get to play it until january.

  93. 93.

    Calming Influence

    @Gravenstone: O.K., how the fuck did that get 278,744 views, much less 1,112 likes and 32 dislikes? (Does it have anything to with the “As seen on: The best links to click on when you’re stoned” link?!?) :-)

  95. 95.

    Gravenstone

    @Calming Influence: That (well, not necessarily that specific link to it) was all the rage on the Stratics EQ boards about 10 years ago. I like to dredge it up every so often. Usually when someone reminds me via badgers.

  97. 97.

    gaz

    @Chuck Butcher: That’s pretty much what I’ve been doing.

    I nixed the lovers stone power though, in favor of taking that one that makes magic levelling faster – just because I tend to pop off here and there and level my restoration and destruction, while levelling my smithing, my enchanting, and my alchemy (currently my core focus at the moment)

    I don’t mind so much about the smithing – I have money. I have a ton of iron vendors around. heh.

    The enchanting is slightly more difficult, just because I haven’t found an effective way to mass-farm soul gems (nor as I understand it, can I capture the soul of a summon, so Azura’s star is nearly useless for this task, unlike in Oblivion). Still, those two level quickly enough.

    Alchemy is the real pain in my arse. It’s costing me nearly 2 grand for each level I train at this point, and I don’t plan on making eleventy billion concoctions to get from 65 to 100 – heh)

    FTR – I “cheat” but I don’t – depends on your definition. No cheat codes, but I’m not above using game gliches (neo-turtle tapping, heh). Basically as long as Steam allows it, it’s fair game in my book. So right now I’m using the manequin/armor dupe glitch to make my money fast. There’s another “infinite gold” glitch, but the method I’m using seems easier and is just as fast.

  98. 98.

    Cacti

    @Chuck Butcher:

    Cheap and fast ways to up skills

    Another is play the Dark Brotherhood quest line until you get the horse Shadowmere. Once you have him you can…

    Wail on him till your heart’s content to raise 1-handed and 2-handed weapons.

    Heal him during your wailing to raise your Restoration.

    Shoot him with endless arrows to raise your Archery.

    He’s also good to have in fights w/ random dragons, as it will bring the dragon to the ground when he spots him.

  99. 99.

    gaz

    @Cacti: You can do all this before you leave the first “tutorial mission”

    just hack and blast away at your escort in the first mission.

    I got to level 8 or so before even really starting the game. Destruction of 40, one handed of 30 something.

  101. 101.

    DaddyJ

    @lamh35: I’m only a vicarious game player, but I do like to watch my daughter kick boss in some of the games she has for the Wii. I agree with Gaz that Okami is a stunning game, and I quite liked Zelda: Twilight Princess for the same reason. She’s just started Zelda, Skyward Sword, and likes the new range of motion you can achieve with the controller — but the graphics have been rolled back to a more cotton-candyish palette, so I don’t find them quite as compelling. She also enjoyed Prince of Persia: Forgotten Sands on the Wii; there are some amazing wall-walking puzzles you have to solve in that and, again, beautiful graphics.

  102. 102.

    gaz

    Also, the spike pit at the end of the Halted Stream Camp near whiterun is a good place to level restoration. Actually, any place where there’s a spike pit, but I like halted stream because it also has the Transmute spell tome and a bunch of iron ore.

    Also too, you can level conjuration by repeatedly casting soul trap on a dead body.

  104. 104.

    Cacti

    Skyrim Speechcraft glitch…

    Talk to Ungrien the bartender at the Black-Briar Meadery in Riften. Ask him what he thinks of his boss, then persuade him to tell you what he really thinks.

    Repeat this dialogue option as many times you like to raise your Speechcraft. And you can leave and come back to it later if you don’t want to max it out in your first go.

  107. 107.

    DaddyJ

    @kwAwk: I’m assuming it is that horrific Christmas song of his, which sounds like the music bed for a second-rate department store’s late-night TV ad in 1985. That song is one of the data points that has led me to realize that past a certain plateau of fame, one’s talent, or lack thereof, ceases to matter.

  108. 108.

    gaz

    http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7142/6519044441_990e849363_m.jpg

    Contents:
    1) Groucho Mugabe (Adorable)

    Kitteh!!!

    This one has an eye that doesn’t quite track – I’d say it’s lazy, but he can open it all the way – it makes him look slightly cross eyed – super precious. when he gets excited he looks crazy. michelle bachmann crazy. it’s the eyes.

    Also too, he plays fetch, and will continually retrieve a thrown toy, bring it back all excited – drops it in front of me.

    It’s cuteness unbound – I wish I could get my camera to focus on this properly, but it doesn’t like to turn out.

    We named him Groucho because he looks silly, slightly crazy. And Mugabe is because when we brought him home he ate like 3 times his weight in catfood at each sitting, causing an adorable little food crises in our home.

    Heh.

  109. 109.

    gaz

    @Cacti: Yeah, muffle. I forgot about that one because I haven’t been focusing on my illusion magic lately.

    BTW, using Detect Life in the riften marketplace during the day when there are a ton of people around levels you VERY quickly

  110. 110.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @Kristine:, @Calming Influence:, @gaz:

    Thanks! He’s adorable and adapting very well to his new home. Our Manx has met him and was purring and seemed very relaxed during the ritual face sniffing but warned him off with a small growl when he went to smell the other end. They have sniffed each other a few times now and both seem to be getting along well so far. I was worried about that because our Manx can be a little bitch with other animals who invade ‘her turf’. I think the tiny size makes a difference.

    She may know that she can train him. ;)

    @gaz:

    Wow, he looks like me after a few good bong hits! ;) That is one handsome, if a bit screwy looking, kitteh.

    I’d take him because (other than loving cats!) if someone came to the door first thing in the AM, answering it with that bad boy in my arms would be an image that would send any door to door knocker running…lol!

  112. 112.

    gaz

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: I should get him stoned on ‘nip and see if I can get a picture of his 1000 yard stare.

    Wild eyed doesn’t even begin to describe it.

    You haz a Manx! I luvs them. My wife and I attempted to make a home here for one (before we got groucho) but she was a bit too timid, and had a hard time adjusting. So we gave her back to her former owner after about a week. =/

  114. 114.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @gaz:

    If you get him some ‘nip, you better provide pics! I’ve had four Manx kittehs now, all female and all needy, whiny little bitches (mine is now standing up next to my chair, one paw on my leg, loudly demanding lap time). They are very territorial and pretty much one-owner cats. They will accept other people in the family but seemingly grudgingly at times. Our latest been the toughest one so far as she was formerly a feral and was captured at about six months of age. She was in such bad shape (and she slinked everywhere in fear) that it took me awhile to realize that she is a Manx. I thought she had maybe lost most of her tail in an accident as it’s got a curve in it.

    Turns out that this is one of the mutations of the gene in the Manx. She has the long neck, dual layer coat, belly ruff, round head, round protruding chest, tall rear legs with rounded hindquarters and an attitude like my past three Manx; nasty. The females tend to be the ‘serious cat’ and not really all that playful, very much unlike the males. They tend to be small (she’s just over five pounds) but very mean cats when pushed. None of mine have ever been seen running from a dog, standing their ground and getting plain nasty if the dog decides to make the mistake of getting too close.

    It took me over a year to tame her somewhat. Our bonding included an episode where she sunk a fang through a leather welding glove and into the first joint of my thumb, breaking the tooth off in the process. She’s still a wild kitty but she’s adapted well to living at a house. She could leave if she wanted to but she rarely ever leaves the property, only venturing into the closest adjoining yard once in awhile. She locked on to me and now she’s my “Baby” (as my wife says). She follows me everywhere (she’s about six feet away now, grooming) at home and naps when I’m gone. The only time I lose her is when it’s sunny out and she can hit the yard for a nice warm spot to bask in.

    Cats are fun. A lot of work but definitely worth it for the companionship.

  115. 115.

    gaz

    @Odie Hugh Manatee: Wow, she broke a tooth off in you? Girl was not playin around!

    She locked on to me and now she’s my “Baby”

    This.

    Certainly not the only reason, I prefer cats to many other pets, but one of them. They play favorites. A golden lab will often love anyone and everyone. But there’s nothing like a cat that loves you and hates everyone else to make you feel a little special somehow =P I like large birds for the same reason, too. maybe I’m just insecure. =)

  116. 116.

    FlipYrWhig

    Did anyone else see that John King cited “Progressive Blogger John Cole, balloonjuice.com,” in a segment on his execrable CNN show? Full screen quotation from that disgusted-by-Democrats post. I saw it on the elliptical machine at the gym.

  118. 118.

    Epicurus

    SWTOR is dead to ME ever since I found out it’s Windoze only. Blizzard Entertainment could teach those fools something about cross-platform compatibility. Diablo III can not come out soon enough!

  119. 119.

    Pinwheel

    Go for an RPPvP server for epicness. There’s one east coast and one west coast.

    And I’m on a Mac too. I run it in bootcamp. Works great.

  120. 120.

    gaz

    @Epicurus: Windoze only is why I run a PC. You can’t throw a brick without…

    Also too, the MAC is just an overpriced, outdated intel machine these days. I’d build my own if I needed one. Sure beats paying $1500 for a $600 computer. hackintosh.com

    Windoze – love it or loathe it, it’s what’s for dinner.

    So while the zealots are struggling to find proper software, I’ll be happily doing my thing while the fanbois diddle with half baked undone also-wares, or wait a year for a vendor to get around to a mac or linux release. So while they bitch and moan about cross platform, I’ll be playing some games. There’s a troublesome little thing called marketshare, that will always throw a wrench in your cross platform ideal.

  121. 121.

    gaz

    @Epicurus: I run a PS3, knowing full well that it’s game catalog was inferior to the Xbox360 when I bought it. The DLNA and bluray capabilities are better for a media appliance. That’s what sealed it for me.

    I knew what I was getting – for me the tradeoff was worth it. So you won’t hear me bitch that some game isn’t released on it right away. I knew that going in. What’s your excuse? Did you seriously think that it wouldn’t be a problem? If so, then I’d hope by now you’ve figured that out.

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