Sorry to overdo it with the D&D posts, but this is the sort of comment that makes me fume whenever people talk about the anti-intellectualism of the black community:
"If the shareholders of The New York Times ever wonder why the paper's ad revenue is plummeting and its share price tanking, they need look no further than the hysterical reaction of the paper's editors to any slight, real or imagined, against their preferred candidate," said McCain campaign spokesman Michael Goldfarb.
Goldfarb compared the editors to a blogger "sitting at home in his mother's basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons."
I resemble that remark. Once again John McCain reveals his unfitness for the presidency. Any credible candidate knows that us nerds don't sit at home in our mother's basement "ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons." We rant into the ether between games of World of Warcraft. Just...one...more...crit...
The Beautiful Struggle: A Father, Two Sons, and an Unlikely Road to Manhood 
Oh. My. God. ROFL.
The Republican operatives reading your blog should just come clean.
Wow, the McCain camp is showing itself to be clueless. First they piss off a major contributor - the Hilton family. Now they are dissing the D&D crowd. We are geek, but we are legion.
Nine out of ten of this years top-grossing films have a superhero, sci-fi, or fantasy theme, the one exception is Sex and the City.
Dungeons and Dragons is owned by toy giant Hasbro now. They just went through a major new product launch. I wonder how all their execs feel about making contributions to the otherwise business-friendly McCain campaign?
Moe people play World of Warcraft than farm in the US. More people have computer and mathematical jobs, too. (see http://kfmonkey.blogspot.com/2006/03/farm-fetish.html for an amusing treatment of this)
I say the McCain campaign is losing it. All the basketball playing makes McCain look lethargic, so they are trying to counter it. The huge crowds around the globe make him look unpopular by comparison, so they are trying to dis the notion of popularity. Yikes! When was that a winning strategy?
I refuse to be ashamed about playing a game that requires a high degree of intelligence, cooperation, and imagination.
If they actually understood how this whole online blogging community thing works, they would know that we aren't ranting "into the ether" -- we're having productive debates about our chosen hobby with a wide-reaching and diverse network of like-minded people.
Doctor Jay isn't kidding when he says we are legion, and we don't appreciate being characterized like that.
I do my ranting to a group of peers that respect me, from the comfort of my own apartment that I pay for with my day job, thank you, Mr. Goldfarb.
Name and server? :D