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Sunday, October 19, 2008

Jack Thompson isn't anti video game insane, he's just insane.

The Top Ten moments in Jack Thompson's career with one of my personal favorite ones from this list.

2. Batman of Rap

In 1990 Jacky, as we will now refer to him as “Jack” is entirely too manly a name for one who fears the Kung Fu of a woman over half a century old, decided that Rap was his new enemy. In his campaign against 2Live Crew’s “As Nasty As They Wanna Be” he claimed that he was Bruce Wayne, a Batman to fight the evils of Rap Music. Not just in words: he wore a Bat-watch and mailed people copies of his driver’s license with pictures of Batman edited in. Hands up if that sounds like the act of a well-adjusted legal professional (there will be no hands up, as anybody who tries to raise one will find it inconveniently “restrained” by some kind of “jacket”).


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Saturday, April 14, 2007

My Mommy Is a Democrat: a book in one part


Being a Canadian, I honestly don't see the appeal of politicizing someone's childhood, but who am I to doubt the American Way? Still, if I were an American parent, I'm sure that the review by Kyleigh Grulke (age 5), would sell me the picture book faster than a positive review by the New York Times

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