'Scuse me while I get a little political for a moment and talk about current events... 1. Best line I've heard recently: "Having a smoking section in a restaurant is like having a peeing section in a swimming pool." 2. So now California is debating a bill that will restrict video games sales to minors. I'm sorry... I need a moment. Thanks. What the hell is going on here? Why are my tax dollars being spent to pay these lunatics in the state senate? Hel-lo, I thought there were already ratings on these games? And wasn't the point of having those ratings in the first place to restrict the sale of violent video games to minors? Christ on a monorail, I thought we'd been through this already with the music and the movies. CDs have those "explicit lyrics" labels on the front. Movies have that whole MPAA rating system that is supposed to make people card you at the box office if you look like you shouldn't be buying tickets to that R-rated film. And wasn't this whole rating systems for games modeled after the MPAA system? Riiiiiiiight. So instead of going after the video-game makers, why not go after the store clerks who are selling the kids these games against the rating system? Or, even more intelligently, why not have the parents be parents to their kids? This basically all comes down to parenting. I can't say enough times that my parents took me to see Die Hard when I was 10 years old. I saw an extremely violent film when I was a child. And yet I turned out just fine. My parents raised me right, despite outside influences from movies and video games and song lyrics. So how come all the other parents out there are passing the buck and asking the government to parent their kids for them? 3. Courtney Love is a suitable parent for her kid? Yeah. Right. And I'm a purple-spotted gay orangutan that speaks six languages flawlessly. (For the record, I'm none of those.) We're talking about a woman who went into a radio station and spent six hours showing off her track marks and talking about complete nothingness and seguing from topic to topic every three seconds because she couldn't focus on the subject at hand (possibly because due to something those track marks caused?). Watch Kurt & Courtney -- the woman is scary.