The recently defeated bill to more properly restrict violent video games has left me puzzled at the hypocrisy of our anthropomorphic government, which in my imagination is a befuddled senior citizen harshly debating with a cornered ficus about the violent nature of Primal Rage. When I can turn on the television to find nearly naked women advertising soap, waving synthetic private parts on the The Daily Show, or [insert any MTV show here] with nary a concerned finger being raised I can confidently say that the Supreme Court was correct in their recent ruling. I cannot see another round of unregulated alarmist restrictions ever helping as much as parents doing their jobs properly.

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By Shane Parker, (Zero-lives.blogspot.com)