2008 April 29

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Grandtheft Auto IV: Hillary Disapproves.

What? You don’t approve of the:

Random acts of violence?
Paying for “sexual encounters” on the street corners?
Suggestion that drinking and driving really isn’t so bad?
Drug smuggling / dealing / using?
Car jacking as a sport?
Killing as a sport?
Womanizing of the female characters? Especially on the new – but 100% not real – dating site, Love Meet, available when you visit the new internet cafe?
The illegal immigrant main character?
$450 million that the game is expected to bring the company by the end of the year?

Hillary, you crazy! It’s not like any of this actually happens. Every day. On the 6 o’clock news. So chill, girl. Deal with the problems at hand. Like the wrestling match between yourself and Obama. As for the 12-year-old boys whose minds are being shaped by this game, you’d best hope someone sets the record straight: it’s no worse than the R rated movies your not supposed to be watching. Let’s just be lucky we have an outlet for all those wanna be gangstas from the plains of the Midwest or the suburbs of Connecticut. At least it gives them a taste of how truly difficult the thug life is. Instead of learning that banking isn’t for them thanks to the innocence that is Monopoly, they’ll soon discover that the drugs, sex, and car jacking lifestyle isn’t as easy as they thought. So, thank you Grand Theft Auto IV. I think it’s fair to say we will all learn a lesson from you today; that the fine line between crazy and sane is getting smaller as the trust we put in society gets bigger and bigger every day!

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Designer Gas Masks: Protection from Chemical Warfare, Conveniently in Time for Allergy Season

While I have all the respect in the world for the awareness of bio-chemical attacks that Tim Smit, a Dutch designer, is bringing to the world with his fashion-forward line of gas masks, I can’t help but think, especially now, during the height of one of the worst allergy seasons ever, that this might be just what I need to make it through my sniffles in style. Then again, maybe not. The whole hoodie that zips all the way up style was cool, but not practical. And ski masks just conjure up bank robbery situations. For some reason, I’m thinking this might make the list of cool looking fashions – for your face – that just don’t translate to the street. It’s a shame, too. They’re so multifunctional.