Video Game Download Stores For PC & Mac

Unlike consoles, even the largest games for PC and Mac can be download from the Internet. The hardest part is finding out where to make the purchase, especially for Mac and Linux games. To change that I have rounded up the most reputable download game stores on the net, so you can load up your machine with all the games you can buy.

Windows only
Steam
Probably the most well known video game download store on the net. This is owned by the developer Valve, creator of games like Half-Life, Portal and Left 4 Dead.
http://store.steampowered.com/

Good Old Games
This is the store you probably wanna check first to download a game. Everything you'll find here is 100% DRM free. Unfortunately most of the games developers and publishers will let them sell like this are a few years old, hence the name.
http://www.gog.com/

Impulse
Software developer Stardock's online game store.
http://www.impulsedriven.com/

Games for Windows
Microsoft's own game store, selling it's own games and others for it's operating system.
http://www.microsoft.com/games/en-US/index.aspx

Mac only
Mac Game Store
A subsidiary of Inside Mac Games, a Mac gaming news website. It claims to be the largest online Macintosh gaming store on the planet. With such a conspicuous name it's easy to believe.
http://www.macgamestore.com/

GameTree Online
TransGaming's store, a company that make tech for porting Windows games to Mac. The tittles it has ported over are sold through this store.
http://www.gametreeonline.com/

Both
Direct2Drive
Run by IGN, in addition to selling Windows and Mac games this also sells episodes of anime shows.
http://www.direct2drive.com/

Greenhouse
Created by the makers of the Penny Arcade webcomic and the developers of the game based on that, this is the only store on the list that not only sell games for Windows and Mac but also Linux.
http://www.playgreenhouse.com/

GamersGate
A service operated by the game developer Paradox Interactive.
http://www.gamersgate.com/

Another option is just go to a developer's or publisher's site where they may sell their own games directly.

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The Racial Realities of President Obama

As you have probably have been hearing all over the news Barack Obama is now the United States first African American President. While it is great that this has happened their are things about Obama that make this accomplishment not as great as it seems. The first is that he is only half black, he also half white. So if he is the first black president he also the forty-forth white president. That means the chain of white presidents has not been broken but it is damaged. One has to wonder if he was fully black would he still have been elected, just like it must be considered if Hilary Clinton would have made it so far in the primaries if she was not married to a former president.
Another race issue for Obama is that his father was an immigrant from Kenya meaning that unlike the large majority of African Americans he has no slave ancestors. Part of the reason that the idea of a black president is looked at so fondly is that a group of people once seen as nothing more than property has one of their kinfolk rise to the highest office in the land. Instead we get a gene line that never had to go through many of the harsh things that have happened to blacks in America.
Obama should not be ashamed of the fact that he only half black or does not have slave lineage but people should stop acting like those facts are not there. Many people like myself believed that it was not a question of if but when their would be black president. While we most of us imagined it would be a fully black person with slave ancestors, Obama's winning is a monumental achievement that proves that people of any ethnicity can become president too.