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Not like the Rush comments should be that shocking. I give you Top 10 Racist Limbaugh Quotes.

Watched the Inauguration (what's the standard on that, do we capitalize it? Just realized I really don't know) on CNN and MSNBC. Recorded it as well. Before, during, and after it, I have found myself in debate with a friend of mine over it. This friend considers himself "numb" about the entire affair, such that he has no positive or negative feelings about it. He didn't seem to understand the significance of this day, not from a political standpoint, but from a human one.

As I was trying to figure out how best to explain the significance, I realized that I really couldn't do the explanation justice. There simply have been too many before who have so eloquently laid down the foundation as to why this was important. I will admit that amid the political grandstanding that inadvertently takes place in any governmental sea change the meaning may become lost if you don't look for it, but that does not mean we shouldn't look for it.

I realize video-spam is the last desperate attempt at producing content by a man hopelessly busy, but this really warranted a post.

By the way, I'm sure I don't need to even mention this because the news is all over the place, but various homophobic and discriminatory anti-gay propositions passed around the country last night. So before we get too celebratory that we finally elected an intelligent president, we need to begin taking a hard look at why so many people think still think it's acceptable to have legal, government-based discrimination against an entire group of citizens.

It's almost like electing a black man marked the end of a very long civil rights struggle for one group of people in this country, but these discriminatory propositions highlighted another civil rights struggle that is, unfortunately, likely just beginning...

Okay... turns out you don't suck... While it was a squeaker here, you seem to have wound up tipping for Obama. Color me impressed.

Generally speaking though, I'm absolutely thrilled by the results of last night's election. For Obama to win with such an overwhelming majority is something else. I wish I had more to say about it, but I don't. I'm simply too busy and too stressed.

Why am I stressed? Well, as I mentioned previously I am working at trying to make a company work. I may as well spill the beans and say this company will be a video game company and we are currently working on our first game that targets Xbox Live Arcade. We hope to have the game done by early 2009 (and really hope that we can get it for sale by Spring/Summer 2009). Unfortunately, we don't have the money to hire on enough people to make this more expedient, so I've been largely going at it myself (with another friend helping out occasionally with some code).

That being said, we are very much interested in any funding we could find. If you (or someone you know) would be interested in investing in a start-up video game company with some great prospects (our founders include software industry veterans, we have a list of 50 titles in various stages of planning, and former game projects we've been a part in have had a user base of over 132 million) please feel free to contact me at the following address:

We have a business plan we'd be happy to share with serious investors as well as a company overview explaining who we are what we plan to do.

As for other reasons I'm stressed, I haven't mentioned this yet but my father has taken a turn for the worse. They recently took him off of his pills (that have kept him alive this long) and are "easing his suffering" while we wait for him to pass. As you may or may not know, he is a fighter and could last some time. But, without the pills he's been on for the last few years that time is now very limited.

Anyway... I've just been busy as hell and in dire needs of things to calm down again. Hopefully this election being over will at least contribute to that need in some way.

Welp, according to recent polls just in, Florida just tipped towards Obama. Yes, that's right, one of the more conservative sections of the nation and Bush's trump card just polled higher for Obama than McCain.

This is wonderful news and everything, but my only response is that Indiana (the state I live in) really does suck. I mean, let's take a look at Indiana's chart, shall we?

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At the time of this writing, that's 48% McCain to 45% Obama.

Seriously... What the fuck, Indiana? You're letting retirees and redneck gator trappers out think you. Then again, I did see four SUVs out on the road today with "NOBAMA" hand painted on their windows. And I still do find examples of overt racism every day I leave my house. So, maybe I really am surrounded by more idiotic racist fucks here than I would be down south.

Fuck you, Indiana.... Seriously.

Wow... just... wow...

For what it's worth, I'll be tweeting (fuck, I hate that word) my thoughts during the debate tonight. Head over if you really have nothing better to do.

Okay, so you probably have already heard that Obama won North Carolina heartily and Clinton squeaked out a win in Indiana. The results (with 99% reporting) were [IN] [NC]:

Indiana Clinton 638,274 Obama 615,862 Difference 22,412

North Carolina Obama 890,695 Clinton 657,920 Difference 232,775

If you recall my post from yesterday, I said that Obama had an uphill battle here in Indiana largely due to the population here. I really hadn't expected him to win here, but I had hoped that he would.

Well, looking at the extremely small win here for Clinton (~2%), I am thoroughly pleased. Indiana performed beyond my expectations... color me impressed. In fact, Clinton's win is so small, I think it warrants a special sound:

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Now, there's more detail about her... ahem... "win" than you might first realize. Let me elaborate...

A little word from the late Hunter S. Thompson on the "End of America", which is very timely on this day of the Indiana Democratic Primary. Hunter S. was talking about the news media immediately after 9/11, but his words ring very true today.

I sincerely hope that everyone here in the state that I live (Indiana) goes out today and makes the right vote for our country. Personally, I think the right vote is Obama. He is one of only two very intelligent and thoughtful presidential candidates we've had in my life (the other was Carter), and I, for one, think we are in dire need of intelligence in the White House.