I don’t usually laugh at most people’s misfortune.  OK, that’s a lie – I do.  But I don’t usually laugh with such glee!

Jack Thompson has been disbarred.  Ok, if you don’t know who Jack Thompson is, then you might find this a little less funny.  Lemmie give you the highlights… 

Jack Thompson decided there was a link between video game violence and real world teen violence.  Except that whole bit where some studies show there isn’t a link.  At all.  I have no problem with his belief though – I have a belief there isn’t a link, and some studies show that I’m probably right.  But who knows – maybe it’s a delayed effect, and when this current generation of gamers turns 60, they’ll all be mass murderers because of Grand Theft Auto XXVI:  Old Age Home.  The long term sociological effects won’t really be know for quite a while.

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