Burke's Joystick

Something unexpected happened the other day:  I was watching the following stage demo for the yet to be released Saints Row 4 when a tear came unbidden to my eye.  Why?  Because it reminded me of when this great nation actually had a manly president.  Check it out: " You think you could *$@! with my country?!?  This one is for Uncle Sam!"    Now that is a take charge and take names president!  Unfortunately, we are currently saddled with this guy instead: Barak Barry Hussein Soetoro Soebarkah Obama...if that is your real name Thanks a lot, effeminate America. Could you imagine what would happen if aliens attacked during Obama's presidency?

Lately, I've been seeing a bunch of articles complaining about bigotry in gaming.  Articles about racism, gender discrimination and even about homophobia (literally: 'fear of man' - see how incoherent these modernist labels can be?) in games.  Now, for the most part, these complaints all came from the usual suspects: individuals who often come from the left wing of the political spectrum and are obsessed with a vision of a Utopia where radical egalitarianism reigns supreme.  When Mark Levin summarized the Big Government Statist in Ameritopia , I think he also hit upon the essential characteristics of  this personality type - a not surprising coincidence since most radical egalitarians are usually Statists, too: "It is observed that the Statist is  dissatisfied with the condition of his own existence....He is angry, resentful, petulant, and jealous....The Statist searches for significance and even glory in a utopian fiction of his minds making, th...