(Quasi) Daily Bloggery 2009-04-16: Of teabaggery and untrasound

1. Health: SGL (109), feeling pretty good at the moment.

2. Family: Called my daughter last night. She had some ultrasound-sourced news: Baby Kanenwisher is a grandson. Her and Sam have picked a name for the little guy, which will be announced when he makes his debut in August.

3. Politics: There has been a big stink on certain cable news channels -- mostly one named for a certain fur-bearing animal -- about "tax protests" over President Obama's budget proposals. To symbolize their protest in a manner unmistakable to any American who is aware of his heritage, they've adopted the Boston Tea Party model, and are calling it "teabagging the President."

Guys, "teabagging" has a whole 'nother meaning in the here-and-now. In gaming, it refers to fragging your opponent and executing the maneuver described in the UD link with your foe's virtual corpse.

Of course, these protests -- basically corporate astroturf in action -- ignore the objective reality that the US has among the lowest taxes in the world, and has over the last, oh, thirty or so years, a lot less progressive while income distribution has skewed upward.

Gwenny referred to it as "insanitea."

4. Gwenny: I'm going to see her this weekend. It's been two weeks and I miss her badly.

5. WoW: Patch 3.1 landed on Tuesday, and it was a mighty thing indeed. Neat new content in Northrend, a big bad new raid instance I'm not anywhere near ready for . . . just grinding cash for Marty's epic flying skill and mount. Gwenny, through the lovely Paharita, donated 1k gold to the cause. I'm bringing over another 3k on another toon, which should be Just About Enough.