Videogames, MySpace, Snakes and Kos

Great report on the MySpace problem with predators on yesterday evening’s WNT! Although I realize that parents can’t continuously monitor their children’s activities on a computer, they need to set some limits and provide some supervision for their children. It’s the parents unaware of what can happen to their children in cyberspace who need this information!
Stephen Colbert’s response to the gay marriage comments was witty, funny, and showed a high degree of intelligence that Mr. Henninger will never possess. The “argument” (and I’m being extremely charitable here) cited is, as I commented on one of your previous blogs, nothing more than a feeble, weak-kneed canard used in denying civil rights: “If we don’t stop it here and now, who knows where this execrable practice will lead?” Were this WSJ editor living in the early years of the previous century, I’m sure that he would have used the same ill-conceived rationalization to decry miscegenation, women’s suffrage, desegregation and integration, women’s rights, and who knows what else. By making such unenlightened comments, Mr. Henninger has undeniably shown that he is a man ahead of his time, if his time is the thirteenth century—B.C. How did this dimwit become an editor of what used to be considered an influential newspaper?