Links: Politics, Games, and Art Edition

[l33tminion]

Lot of good stuff from the past few weeks! Political talk and commentary:

• Olbermann rants about 9/11(TM), as the Republicans spin it.
• O'Reilly defends Obama... what? The Daily Show team talks to Republican convention-goers about small-town values.
• John McCain slams Obama for... protecting children from child molesters? Of course, this is good for

Comments

[l33tminion]

The others are up, and there's a link to download the first episode at the second one. Don't know why someone took objection to the first one in particular.

[l33tminion]

Honestly, treating customers badly doesn't bother me as much as the bad (and probably illegal) way they treat employees. After all, caveat emptor and all. There are worse fates than loosing a little money on overpriced video games.

GameStop definitely does profit off of theft. Their habit of opening new locations right next to big box stores is arguably more for this reason than any other.

[chiaki777]

Oldermann made a very interesting point. I take most campaign promises as empty pathetic appeals to announce ideals, but this puts light to what McCain could be doing. Though, I can say the same to Obama who's talked about Change so much that I wonder where he's kept it all before getting here