News: With no budget, MN government shuts down

News: Woman's body in pool undiscovered for 2 days

...really? Health inspectors (yeah...health inspectors) said the pool was 'cloudy'. It typically takes a few days for bodies to surface, so that's not a big deal. But having a dead body in a pool should get noticed.....fast. WTF.

News: Two idiot 30 y.o.s arrange for teen daughters to fight

Lord.

Report: Half of twenty-somethings have no landline

And I'm one of em.

News: Sheen admits steroid use during 'Major League' filming

....OK.

News: Critics ripping new 'Transformers' to shreds...

Study: Verizon 'officially' fastest 4G network in the country

News: Tanning bed ban for teens, even w/ parental consent?

22 states are moving on it.

Good.

OK, fine. The 'even with parental consent' thing cause me ethical problems. But parents are stupid...and weak. Teen girls don't need to #$%^ing tan. Want boys to like you? Get a personality.

Update: Violent game decision experts experience varies widely

In the SCOTUS decision, the justices referenced that the studies regarding the youth link between violent video games and violence were not conclusive. But looking at the experts' experience, maybe it should have been more conclusive than they thought.

And yes, I hate saying this.

Those experts on the side of the fact that there IS a link between video game violence and real world violence in young kids had MUCH better research cred than those debunking the link.

That's not to say that the pro-link experts were RIGHT. Just more prolific in original research...in the field of violence and media...and everything else. ....Damn....

News: Capcom makes newest game one-play...forever!

Sell it. They have to use YOUR game. No reset. If you finish the game, it's over. No giving it to a younger sibling. Ridiculous. Hopefully the hacker community will find a way to toast the saves. Cuz when was the last time you cared about the warranty on a GAME cartridge.

News: TSA says it did no wrong in 95 year old's adult diaper case

Then they deny it ever happened. How do you go from 'Our agents were professional when they did this' to 'Our agents didn't do that'?

SCOTUS: States can't ban sale, rental of violent games to minorsF

From the opinion by Justice Scalia - �Our cases have been clear that the obscenity exception to the First Amendment does not cover whatever a legislature finds shocking, but only depictions of �sexual conduct,� Scalia wrote. He added that the videogame law �abridges the First Amendment rights of young people whose parents (and aunts and uncles) think violent videogames are a harmless pastime.�