Gaming Violence and Sex, Part 2

I found this article related to my previous post on the Supreme Court case on violent video games.  It seems that the court decided to overturn California's law banning the sale of violent video games.  Something else happened here though, that I think is important and potentially momentous for the the gaming community: games were listed along side other forms of idea communication such as books, music, and other communicative forms of entertainment.

Although, I am glad that the court decided to limit the ban on sales, I do hope that state governments continue to uphold severe penalties for not marking these types of games appropriately.  It is the right and responsibility of parents to monitor their children's behavior, and that should never be taken away from them by any government.

America's corroded economic system

There is a curious, and terribly disturbing article about the greed of Wall Street people and the lengths to which they are willing to go to make a buck, even if it means the downfall of capitalism.

America's dodgy financial plumbing

A page out of the NATO book on Libya

I found an article on Yahoo about the NATO's involvement in the Libya conflict, and I thought that a specific quote in here applied to the US conflict in Iraq.

French Defense Minister Gerard Longuet said: "NATO has a military vocation and rebuilding Libya is a civilian issue. So really simply, in order to rebuild Libya, if the Libyan people ask for it, because it is first of all an issue for the Libyan people, it is the job for civilian international institutions — and not military — to bring a response"

Our military needs to take this stance in Iraq.  It is not our job to rebuild Iraq, nor should it require American tax dollars.