As a follow up to this moment of grandstanding,
The Trib notes:
A public relations onslaught for Gov. Rod Blagojevich backfired Friday when state school officials mistakenly promoted the wrong Internet site for his new crusade against violent and sexually explicit video games, directing Web users to one that ridiculed the governor ((http://www.safegamesillinois.com/)).The erroneous site, which appeared to have been activated Thursday as Blagojevich announced his initiative to great media fanfare, also included links to pages on Amazon.com where games that the governor found offensive could be easily bought.
As part of a follow-up to Blagojevich's announcement, the Illinois State Board of Education issued a statement urging local educators to point parents to a Web site set up by the governor to promote his initiative and give information about the content of many games.
The wrongly listed address (http://www.safegamesillinois.com/) transports computer users to a site that made fun of Blagojevich for misplaced crime-fighting priorities. Records on the Internet indicate the site was set up Thursday but do not identify who did it.
Can we please have some better priorities? This is such a waste of energy. Can anyone prove to my satisfaction that playing GTA San Andreas causes one to be an anti-social violent criminal? No? How about reading comic books? Or watching movies? or rolling up the cuffs of ones jeans? Is there a need for legislative intrusion in every facet of our lives? Really?
Parenthetical and juvenile note: when Blagojevich was a lonely U.S. Congressman, my friends & I called him blowjobavich, because it was Monica Lewinsky time, and because Blagojevich is a bit of a prig. Now, I have trouble recalling his real name.
