Every time New Year's Eve rolls around again, I make a resolution to be more politically active. It's not something that comes naturally to me -- despite my strong convictions, for most of the time it ends up feeling like shouting down a concrete wall -- and most years I don't even last as far as the end of the New Year's Day "Twilight Zone" marathon before I find something to make me sigh wearily and retreat to my world of escapism and pop culture.

This year, however, I consider myself lucky. I don't have to waste another 24 hours wondering what will make me hit my head against my desk, because I already know: tomorrow morning, the Paultards come to World of Warcraft.

Well, I'm glad someone got the troll joke out of the way already.

Perhaps you have heard of Ron Paul? If you haven't yet had the pleasure, I recommend starting with FearTheReaper's beginner tutorial and then maybe doing a search. You will learn many fascinating things. Whether you decide to agree with his tenets is entirely up to you. Just know that, should you accept, I take pity on your soul.

And yet, for some reason -- deft cherry-picking of campaign points and poor reading comprehension, perhaps -- Ron Paul is wildly popular on the intertubes. End result: pixelated gnomes and dwarves flying his banner all over the Eastern Kingdom. (Yes, yes, because Ron Paul represents the underdog giving a voice to the little people. Got it.) It would sound like a joke made at Paul supporters' expense, were it not for the 200+ page organizing thread on a Ron Paul grassroots forum.

Ah, and me with my poor little baby elf all the way over on Deathwing.

One thing I will say to the Paultards' credit -- they learned from others' mistakes. The rally will be carried out on Whisperwind, a PvE server, meaning that our rallying pals will be fully shielded from ambushes and combat. What a drag. Not that, as Wired so delicately implies, one is limited to heckling the rally with swords and bows alone.

What a splendid idea! Perhaps it's not too late for some political involvement after all. Azeroth is a magical world, ol' buddies -- snowball, anyone?




_DictionaryGirl_ regrets to inform you that, with this article and the dawning of the new year, her time on the SG Newswire team draws to a quiet close. As such, she could find no higher note to end things on than Ron Paul, extreme geekery, and a Calvin and Hobbes paraphrase. Thank you all so, so much for reading.