The Witch-Hunt

Thanks to GameJournalism.com for this link to this C|Net column on the Video Game Witch Hunt. Much of it is more warning sirens than anything you haven't read here already, although this should raise the fur on anyone who cares about where tax dollars go:

It's no surprise, then, that Clinton and other like-minded senators (Democrat Joe Lieberman, Republican Rick Santorum) are behind a bill to spend $90 million in tax dollars on a study looking at the "impact" of video games and other "electronic media" on minors.

Yay! $90,000,000 spent of researching a problem that nobody can even quantify. $90,000,000 spent re-hashing a sea of contradictory data that will either provide fodder for both sides, or be so tailored to what the sponsors will want to hear that's essentially government propaganda. Boy, we are smart. SMRT.