Seriously, can I blog for Broadsheet? About half the time you guys link to an article, I've already posted it on my Facebook the day before, or in this case, weeks before.

http://www.americablog.com/2008/11/princeton-proposition-8-to-protect.html

Unfortunately, there's an idiotic flame war going on now (it was only a matter of time), but the earliest comments that run with the joke are pretty hilarious. I liked this one best:

As a former freshman, I know the seduction of being a freshman, the carefree lifestyle, the attraction of youth. But through the strong moral guidance of my professors, I saw that my lifestyle was a choice, one I would come to regret. It took me almost a year to get away from the freshman lifestyle. It wasn't easy -- all my friends were freshmen, I found myself in classes surrounded by freshmen. But I finally moved on. Others can too. It's not been many years since I was a freshman, and I can confidently say I will never be a freshman again. I hope others can learn from my example.

Comparing traditional games to MMOs is not really fair. Blizzard doesn't really have to sell any additional copies of WOW to make money (although the Frozen Throne expansion sold extremely well). They just have to keep collecting the monthly fees, and once you've invested hundreds of hours into a character, it's gonna take a lot to make you stop.

As for EA, people have been complaining for years about the Madden games just retreading the same ground year after year. As far as I can tell, the only worthwhile game they have out besides Rock Band is Dead Space, which has gotten good reviews but I don't know anything about the sales figures.

So if you chose to go without the Internet, does that mean you'd be guaranteed to have sex during those two weeks? With your choice of partner?

Seriously, am I really the only person for whom this question basically amounts to "would you rather go without the Internet for two weeks or continue going about your normal life?"

Futile as it may be, I fail to see how Cohen's legal case is the most provoking thing about this story. Maybe we should reserve our disapproval for the obsessive sociopath behind the site.

Only for those who automatically take the woman-centric view on any issue, no matter how petty or ridiculous. To the rest of us who, you know, actually care about other issues, this is symptomatic of a horrifying trend that seeks to limit free speech on the Internet (see the Myspace mom case, the proposed Australian nation-wide firewall, etc.). If the hurt feelings of one model (who, let's face it, probably fits the description more than she'd like to admit) matter to you, a blogger, more than the fact that people still can't get it through their thick heads that you can and should be able to say ANYTHING YOU WANT on the Internet, NO EXCEPTIONS, then you are incredibly short-sighted.

Good interview, and this quote really leaped out at me:

Mead was probably partly right, but my guess is that the private place of eros within us, no matter the culture we live in, is prone to shame, because eros is a force that cultures all over the world regard with some degree of fear and attempt to constrain.

This is something many (not all) writers and posters on Broadsheet will forever refuse to understand.

Thanks for this, it was a much needed corrective to that article on lolcats you guys ran earlier. Not that I don't love lolcats, but that author seemed to have no idea what they were talking about.

Here's another thing to consider. My girlfriend suggested that, considering the people on 4chan are mostly dudes, the absurdist, vaguely ironic rendering of cats is a way for guys to be "cat people" without seeming gay. I think more generally, it is our generation (the irony generation) reinventing the notion of cat people from the previous stereotype of sickening old cat ladies who call cats their "babies" and coo to them.

...and they don't grow up into teenagers either. Just cats.