And Just To Show You I’m Really Bi-Partisan In My Views On Idiocy…
(Reuters) Senators fight hidden sex in ‘Grand Theft Auto’
Now, first of all, the game was rated M for “Mature”, i.e., 17 years or older. The 85 year-old grandma bought it for a 14 year-old kid. Second, you need a crack to get at the “explicit” content. And third, I mean, come ON! We’re talking “GRAND THEFT AUTO” here–what’s worse, kids playing at stealing cars, blowing up trucks, murdering indiscriminate digital characters, or seeing some explicit sex with digital mannequins? I mean, it’s about as HAWT as playing Kama Sutra with Barbie and Ken! The only acceptable censorship, in my view, is voluntary self-censorship–once the government gets involved, you have the means and opportunity for repression and set a precedent for censoring more important stuff than pornography. So Cool It, Congress. Control your content, software makers. Grandmas, read the damn labels, and kids, learn to hide these things better 🙂
How Do You CLARIFY A Rumor You Started Yourself?
So, lemme see, Scooter Libby called everyone up and asked them if they’d heard this rumor, then Karl Rove called them up and “clarified” the misinformation in the rumor…
(Salon) Is Rove in hotter water than we think? But how interesting… “Patrick Fitzgerald, the prosecutor in the case, may be looking instead at another law — the Espionage Act of 1917, which makes it a crime to disclose any classified information, even if the disclosure is accidental.”
