La máscara de la muerte roja llega a Wall Street

January 4, 2007 (LPAC)-Stephen Moore, the lunatic free trade founder of Wall Street's Club for Growth, and now a member of the Wall Street Journal's editorial board, has been forced to face the reality of killer videogames. In a column in today's journal, Moore recounts how killer videogames, such as World of Warcraft and Counterstrike, have turned his own two sons, ages 14 and 16, into zombies. "Unless I pried them (forcibly) from the computer, Moore writes, "they would spend five or six hours at a time absorbed in these online fantasy worlds." When he and his wife imposed strict time limits in front of the computers, the two boys exhibited classic withdrawal symptoms, ranting, raving and even throwing things. "I'm persuaded that computer games are the new crack cocaine," Moore writes.

But true to his free trade ideology, Moore not only refuses to advocate banning the games (claiming he fears a multibillion dollar black market), but blames the whole "cult of Nintendo" on a Japanese plot "to turn our kids' brains into silly putty as payback for dropping the big one on Hiroshima." So, even though Moore has an Xbox in his home, he covers for Bill Gates, as well as Rupert Murdoch and the whole Revolution in Military Affairs crowd.

Edgar Allan Poe's Red Death truly has come home to the oligarchs.