Day: March 29, 2005

Well it looks like Senator, and prospective 2008 Presidential candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton has jumped on the anti-violent video games bandwagon. She’s slamming Grand Theft Auto for its violence against women and minorities and wants to spend $90M to study the threat that these games pose to children. So this makes it official, as I’ve mused before, there is no political downside to slamming violent and so called mature video games even if it means proposing laws that are clearly unconstitutional. You score points with the political right and conservatives without the danger that the bans and restrictions will stand the test of the courts. Then score more points complaining about the judges who strike the laws down. Since the democrats are on the out right now, watch for more dems to jump on the bandwagon. This is a no brainer!

Here is a bit of humor that I just got from a friend. I don’t know the original source, but you will say "Ouch!" at the end. Thanks John!

1. The Wall Street Journal is read by the people who run the country.

2. The Washington Post is read by people who think they run the country.

3. The New York Times is read by people who think they should run the country and who are very good at crossword puzzles.

4. USA Today is read by people who think they ought to run the country but don’t really understand The New York Times.

They do, however, like their statistics shown in pie charts.

5. The Los Angeles Times is read by people who wouldn’t mind running the country — if they could find the time –and if they didn’t have to leave Southern California.

6. The Boston Globe is read by people whose parents used to run the country and did a far superior job of it, thank you very much.

7. The New York Daily News is read by people who aren’t too sure who’s running the country and don’t really care as long as they can get a seat on the train.

8. The New York Post is read by people who don’t care who’s running the country as long as they do something really scandalous, preferably while intoxicated.

9. The Miami Herald is read by people who are running another country but need the baseball scores.

10. The San Francisco Chronicle is read by people who aren’t sure there is a country … or that anyone is running it; but if so, they oppose all that they stand for. There are occasional exceptions if the leaders are handicapped minority feminist atheist dwarfs who also happen to be illegal aliens from any other country or galaxy provided, of course, that they are not Republicans.

11. The National Enquirer is read by people trapped in line at the grocery store.

12. None of these is read by the guy who is running the country into the ground.