The Violent Video Games

It doesn't surprise me that crackpot senators like Joseph "Stalin" Liebermann would try to pin the blame for the Columbine murders on video games, because they're the ones largely responsible for it. Somehow, they think it's quite all right to take our children and cram them by the thousands into underfunded and grossly inadequate public schools, usually helmed by indifferent teachers. Education in this country has become an uncaring machine into which students are fed, given the absolute minimum knowledge necessary to survive on their own, and spit out with a diploma that's barely worth the paper it's printed on. Adding to the futility of the public school system is the fact that the students themselves have mindboggling priorities... they consider their education secondary in comparison to mindless sports, and the funding needed to keep the school's academics at an adequate level instead goes to teach kids how to throw a ball around (a skill which nine times out of ten wouldn't land ...