Self-Determination
Just because you “don’t believe in labels” doesn’t mean other people aren’t free to identify themselves with communities they have a stake in.
Playing a Bard in an RPG
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Until now, I never really realized that the idea of being a bard was to come up with the worst songs ever, not the best songs (at least if you’re DPSing)
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This passage from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy makes even more sense now:
Vogon poetry is of course, the third worst in the universe. The second worst is that of the Azgoths of Kria. During a recitation by their poet master Grunthos the Flatulent of his poem ‘Ode to a Small Lump of Green Putty I Found in My Armpit One Midsummer Morning’ four of his audience died of internal haemorrhaging and the president of the Mid-Galactic Arts Nobbling Council survived by gnawing one of his own legs off.
Word Salad
Inexplicably, Sarah Palin is still being paid attention to.
You probably missed Sarah Palin’s speech in Wisconsin. It was totally bizarre. • 2016 Apr 5 • Chris Cillizza • Washington Post
Getting off the airplane
Seeing all the green and gold
and the green and gold
until I’m dead and cold
paraphernalia everywhere
This awesome awakening,
the shifting and sifting
and the exposing of this rabid bite
for them to hang on to
any kind of relevancy
and to hang on to their gravy train.
Inducing and seducing them with gift baskets Come on over the border and
here’s a gift basket of teddy bears and soccer balls.
In order to work, to produce,
to strive and to thrive,
and to really be alive
in the greatest country on earth.
Trashin’ our economy, shippin’ out jobs,
lettin’ us foot the bill, palin’ around
with the same old politicos and insiders.
And we won’t retreat, we’ll reload.
We’ll reload.
Sarah Palin “Red State of Mind (Green and Gold)”
Seriously, though, either she’s dropping a track in collaboration with Kanye or she’s having a stroke causing Wernicke’s aphasia.
But I have to admit, “green and gold” is pretty good metonymy for cash and precious commodities.
Also, why do I suddenly have a Boy George/Culture Club song in my head?
Berniebots
I thought “Berniebot” was just a pejorative term for Sanders supporters (akin to “Obamabot” in the 2008 election without the definite racial component.)
But it really looks like there are bots spamming totally random threads with anti-Clinton propaganda and making it look like its coming from a Sanders supporter, and I’m left to wonder whether this (1) was actually deployed by a sincere but horrifically misguided Sanders supporter (2) is a Clinton-camp psyops campaign to make people hate Sanders and his supporters (3) is a Republican psyops campaign to make people hate Democrats.