I dunno, I just get all turned inside out, I really get my panties in a twist when people I think of as oh you know kinda librul and kinda well-informed and kinda on the side of you know um like compassion or something, admittedly under unbearable pressure from the continual suffering of samsara (look it up; not the perfume), say stuff that just makes no f***ing sense.
I expect stuff that makes no f***ing sense from Bork and Cheney and Ryan and Bachmann, et al., I don't expect it from Ted Rall. I expect progressiveness, not faux-gressiveness, and I certainly neither expect nor want faux-gressive fascism masquerading as Uber Moral High Ground. Silly me.
Actually, I tell a lie. I do expect it from sha-touched cartoonist Ted Rall. I didn't used to, but now I do.
Alas.
"We Don't Have the Right to Care"? Excuse me?
Okay, right, drones trump twats, Rall's made that very clear. Yeah, it's a boy thing, missiles? Yeah, right, boy toys! Phallic stuff!
Phallic stuff counts, don't you get it? He knows which way the moral compass is pointed, and it's his guy way or the highway, because, you know, Rall.
Guess what? Drones trump massacres! Even kiddy massacres! Why?
Because Rall said so!
So, if you're out there looking to toe the line on permissible compassion, be sure to follow Rall. He'll be happy to bully you in the name of his sacred sexist nihilist dogma, because, why should he not?
In the immortal words of George III: "I desire the good, therefore all those who disagree with me are traitors."
Ed Lachowicz
Campaign Manager, Colleen Lachowicz for State Senate
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Waterville, ME—State Senate candidate Colleen Lachowicz released the following statement in response to an attack piece sent out by the Maine Republican Party.
Colleen Lachowicz says, “I think it’s weird that I’m being targeted for playing online games. Apparently I’m in good company since there are 183 million other Americans who also enjoy online games. What’s next? Will I be ostracized for playing Angry Birds or Words with Friends? If so, guilty as charged!”
Lachowicz added, “What’s really weird is that the Republicans are going after my hobbies instead of talking about their record while they’ve been running Augusta for the last two years. Instead of talking about what they’re doing for Maine people, they’re making fun of me for playing video games. Did you know that more people over the age of 50 play video games than under the age of 18? As a gamer, I’m in good company with folks like Jodie Foster, Vin Diesel, Mike Myers, and Robin Williams. Maybe it’s the Republican Party that is out of touch.”
According to the Entertainment Software Rating Board, here’s a break down and profile of a gamer in the United States:
- 65% of U.S. households
- 49% of 18 – 49 year olds
- 26% over the age of 50
- 25% under the age of 18
- 2 out of 5 people are female
- average age of a gamer is 34
- $24.8 billion industry
According to the Christian Science Monitor, 183 million Americans play video games.