So the NEA now recognizes video games as art — take that, Ebert. So now someone can apply for an NEA grant to make a video game, though somehow I doubt any game that gets funded will be … you know… fun, because it’s like a principle of the left that our tax dollars never go towards anything we’d like. An NEA funded video game would probably something like where Bowser kidnaps the princess, and then you can control Mario crawling around and weeping as he slowly dies of despair. Or a game like Tetris, but none of the pieces fit together and all your efforts are futile — you know, it’s like symbolic of life.

Gah! I hate art!

On a more practical note, now that I’ve been a husband and a father a little while, I have some requests for video games. I find myself playing a lot more games on my DS and iPad just because they’re easy to pick up, play a couple minutes, and set down — and that’s the thing, I just don’t have these hours of uninterrupted video game time anymore. One thing that would be helpful — and this is way overdue — you should be able to pause anywhere, including cut scenes. Come on, people, we have the technology; let’s make it happen. Also, every game should allow you to save anywhere. Quicksaves can kill the challenge in some games, but every game should at least allow a temporary save at any point that when you turn the game on again it starts from that point and removes the save. I don’t have these hours of extra time to traipse around waiting for save points.

Oh, and make sure you’re working on large-type video games. As soon as I get old and retire, I plan on playing a lot of video games.

So the GOP is going to ask for trillions in cuts in exchange for raising the debt ceiling. Basically, however much the Dems want to raise the debt ceiling, that’s how much needs to be cut from the budget. I dunno; the GOP tried to squeeze just a few billion in cuts out of the Dems and weren’t really that successful, and now they want trillions? I mean, Dems don’t care about the budget, they just want to spend more. Spending less of our money goes against everything they stand for. How will they ever be convinced to go along with big spending cuts? The GOP could kidnaps the Dems’ families, and Dems would be like, “We don’t want anything to happen to our families, but we like spending even more.”

What is there than Dems like better than spending? Whining, maybe, but I don’t know how we can threaten to take away their ability to whine. They really like feeling a sense of superiority to everyone while never doing anything useful, but even if they lost their cushy legislative jobs, they’d just get hired as professors and continue in their uselessness. So I don’t know if there is any way to force Dems to cut spending. One day we’ll have the technology to shoot all the Dems into the sun, but until it kinda looks like we’re stuck with them spending all our money. They just don’t know how to do anything else.

I have a new Pajamas Media column out on the blight of the idle rich — those who got all their wealth handed to them and take it for granted. Go read and be educated.