January 25, 2006
Who Knew Gamers Were That Political?
By Vince Leibowitz
I guess I never thought about gamers being terribly political, but I found it amusing to note that not only is there a website that tracks politics as it relates to gaming (video, not casino), but they aren't too happy about Star Locke's proposal to tax violent video games.
In addition, neither Games Are Fun News nor GameSpot News are very happy with Star Locke.
Posted by Vince Leibowitz at January 25, 2006 11:12 PM
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I can see it now. A caravan of pastey white adolescents, braces friscalating in the dusklight, on the drive to a Best Buy in the OK. Yee-haw...?!
Behind them is the caravan of lower income women seeking abortions.
My favorite part of the Family Security and Protection Act proposed by Star is the aborted fetus any child with access to a computer can see.
At UT it was bad enough having to look at the fetuses while I was trying to get into Gregory to get a nice mind-clearing and endorphin-releasing work out. Now when I want to check the TEXAS ATHLETIC BOARD's junk in Section 3 I have to see another aborted fetus. If you really want to protect families, tax pictures of aborted fetuses, especially ones near anything having to do with sports. After a long run, I'd much rather smell a cigarette than see a fetus, and I think I can speak for a number of people that would say the same. Yet, mine eyes are tormented, cigarettes remain taxed, and Star is still out there.
I suppose someone has the protected right to nauseate me, but, by God, not if I can't kill them with outdoor-only, 15-feet-away-from-the-door-second-hand smoke first.
Very nice "friscalating" reference.
The crickets and the rust-beetles scuttled among the nettles of the sage thicket. "Vámonos, amigos," he whispered, and threw the busted leather flintcraw over the loose weave of the saddlecock. And they rode on in the friscalating dusklight.
