Posted 4:52 PM by Gene

In even the best of worlds a story like this would put a rag like the LALATimes in a bind. On the one hand it's about social science, that untenable quackery that tries to prove the figurative. On the other hand it's about SHOW-BIZ, and inevitably any hack not doing the Army Archerd (that army numbers between negligible and nil) must protect his CONNECTIONS, and must not offend anyone in the SHOW-BIZ CAPITOL OF THE TWENTY-SEVEN UNIVERSES, and he must inevitably quote that damned glibertarian slut for the biz. That said this is probably as good and even-handed as we can hope for, though often even-handed can be wishy-washy. No one in his right mind would say video games turn out a legion of violent zombies, but no one in his right mind would call them benign. Isn't it just enough for society to say we have standards? No, not when our SUPERMEDIA rule us with the STAINLESS STEEL FIST IN A TITANIUM GLOVE.