Screaming Penguin - Source Does Matter

With all the gibberish in the news lately about psychopathic gun-toting kids who kill kids because they can't tell the difference between reality and some video game where you blow aliens up into heaping puddles of blood and throbbing mounds of monster flesh, it's good to see some of the press sticking up for the other side. Wired.com has a followup story about the all-female Quake II tourney with a spotlight on the victor, Anne "Lilith" Chang. What's great about the article is that it focuses on Anne's other hobbies, which surprisingly don't include avoiding contact with nature or joining the NRA. Instead Chang's resume includes being high school valedictorian, a National Merit Scholar and a Fulbright Scholarship winner in a five-year, double-major program in chemical engineering and computer science. And she maintains all this while sharpening her skills with a rail gun, climbing big rocks and dancing like those freaks in the Gap commercials.I hope the theory linking video games to violence doesn't prove to have any merit. I would hate my next story to be about some estranged Asian girl terrorizing the Appalatians with a chainsaw and a chemistry set.