This morning, I’m finally getting around to posting a couple of links I’ve been meaning to toss your way for a while now. Several people wrote in yesterday to point out this story, which may be of interest to anyone who bought a shirt or who reads PA. Of course, it shouldn’t have needed an appeal to establish that video games can be protected by the first amendment - but we’ll take what we can get. Read, and rejoice.

Although I forgot to mention it at the time, WNY recently had a great story up about Misha and his super-hacker ex-girlfriend. Read, and giggle.

There’s a car-crash-caliber serialzed novel up at the WSJ. Car-crash-caliber in that it’s truly awful - but you still have to look (I was driven to dig it up by this review over at Salon). The author of the novel, Danielle Crittenden, is a “neo-traditionalist”, and her story (excruciatingly entitled Amanda.Bright@home) is a transparently allegorical tale about a woman who realizes that despite what her awful feminist Momma taught her, giving up her career to have kids is the right thing to do - her husband will take care of everything, because he’s a “mighty tree.” Read, and cringe.