Libraries and video games go together like Lady Di and Flavor Flav. But to hear librarians tell it, video games are high-church, intellectual endeavors. Today, nearly 2,000 libraries across America will host National Gaming Day, a massive video game tournament and celebration. Tomorrow, The Jersey Shore on a loop in the main reading room and Lady GaGa played on the intercom? Read my article @ City Journal to understand that when the ostensible defenders of culture bow to the vulgar, is later than you think.

What games have you played that helped you form your opinion? What console do you own?

Most of the major console systems are assembled by Chinese political prisoners outside of Shenzen.

I guess it's a generational thing, but I just don't get people playing with themselves electronically.

I know people who play interactively and there seems to be a certain level of skill involved but they are playing every waking hour and I take this as a waste of real life.

Funny though how superior they act sometimes, as if what they're doing requires some level of intelligence not available to the rest of us.

That would mean so much more if they weren't swapping real money for fake game money (gold tokens?) at an exorbitant rate of exchange.

Personally, I can't be too bothered with video games, but I do enjoy a good book.

One aspect of today's librarys that I think is interesting is the rise of on-line downloads to your e-reader. Download the book, read it in the available time (or not) and never have to worry about returning it (it simply disappears after a certain length of time). Now there's a sensible green solution!

ObiJuan: We had an Atari 2600 when I was a kid. I loved to play Demon Attack and Kaboom. I am an adult now, so I don't play video games that often. I do go to the library almost every day, though (I write from there now), and the library is what the article is really about.

The library, along with universal k-12 education, is a socialist institution meant to destroy the Constitution and Our Freedom™. Up with for-profit video games, down with Marxist ivory towers.

The Drudge is saying that white kids are now outnumbered by the Mexicans in California. If we stop this socialist universal k-12 education business, and put those Mexican children in for-profit 16hr/day factories like God intended, we can stop the foreign horde from taking a diarrhea dump on our Christian values and capitalism and keep the West white just like our Founders who believed that flogging was Constitutional and women should not vote would've wanted it.

Yep, the polyglot thrives and California is a perfect example of a place where liberal leftism has spread like the disease and has corrupted the population with the ultimate experiment turned reality of multiculturalism and diversity. The Reconquista is nearly complete in the West and Southwest. And it's working out just famously for that part of the country, ain't it?

You know, the left is always accusing the Right of being fascists, then they strong arm people at airports who won't go through invasive body scanners, want to build a "medical" database with every bit of information available on a person and now want to monitor all electronic correspondence.

Bush came up with the Patriot act to listen in on potential terrorist plots and the lefties freaked out about Fourth Amendment rights. But not a peep about their Messiah seriously and deliberately taking away freedoms from Americans.

We must not forget that Adolph Schicklgruber was a leftist too.

Shoot, that was supposed to go to 'Open Thread'. My apologies.

Referring to a few posts back...flogging et all. I see political satire is still in vogue. Daniel Defoe would be proud!

Love it!