I didn't update this for the past two days because I went sailing on Sunday and played poker on Monday and didn't get back until around dinner time. I also spent most of the time responding to some posts on a forum I found called www.perspectives.com. Apparently they're running an online version of the Senate and presidency to go through the motions and get more people interested in politics. Sadly as I've been reading and responding to threads, I find that the "heavy weights" there are a bit paranoid and not all that informative of politics. They're pretty much your typical Americans with an average understanding of politics, the economy, and history. In other words, the type of people they're seeking to educate, ironic as that is. One woman even proved one of my points for me and actually thought she was disproving me, all the while saying I need to go back to school. Sorry hon, I learned how to read statistics in 6th grade, obviously, you didn't.

A pain in the ass about this whole thing though is that my uncle, known as Conceptual Guerilla in the online world of politics who wrote the "Defeat the Right in Three Minutes" essay, joined to be part of their senate as well. The paranoid conservative "President" yanked his name from the game because he believes we're trying to pull "The oldest trick in the book." To which my response was "To do what exactly?" The reason he pulled CG off? Because we share IPs, apparently they think so highly of their senate that a n00b would WANT to cheat and register twice to have more "power" in their senate. It never crosses their mind that, hey, just maybe these two guys live in the same house! Despite pointing this out and providing a number of different ways to prove it I'm still out to pull the oldest trick in the book to gain more power in their forum senate. See, this is why the country is fucked up, conservatives are way too damn paranoid and illogical to be trusted with any amount of power.