When we play, we’re engaged in a series of rapid, instinctual movements that are much more about pattern recognition and hand-eye coordination than they are about imitating, or fashioning our own values after, the characters on the screen. We embody the game, and the nature of our embodiment has more to do with our thumbs than it does with our minds. In this respect, the experience is much more like playing a contact sport than it is watching TV or listening to music: Video games move too fast for us to think about the meaning of it all; when we play, we’re too busy trying to stay alive.
One of these is a fake aspiring politician from 30 Rock. The other is a real aspiring politician from Arizona.
Qaddafi's mercenaries: How much does it cost to hire a thug?
The mercenaries in Libya are likely former rebels from regions like Darfur, Chad, and Niger, places where Qaddafi has helped support uprisings over the years. Due to the orderly nature of their arrival, Libyan intelligence probably oversaw the hiring and transport. A typical mercenary would be in his 20s, have no high-school education, and little to no formal military training. He might carry an easy-to-maintain assault rifle like the AK-47. If Qaddafi is toppled, whichever mercenaries haven’t been killed will likely truck back to their home countries, where few job prospects are waiting for them.
![Jeff Cox is a conservative deputy Attorney General in Indiana. He publicly supports using “live ammunition” on the “political enemies” and “thugs” that most reasonable people consider tax paying citizens. And this behavior isn’t new. [+]
He should be getting his own Fox News show any minute now.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lh33j35iec1qz9m0ho1_500.png)
Jeff Cox is a conservative deputy Attorney General in Indiana. He publicly supports using “live ammunition” on the “political enemies” and “thugs” that most reasonable people consider tax paying citizens. And this behavior isn’t new. [+]
He should be getting his own Fox News show any minute now.
From The Courier-Journal:
At one point, violence broke out when Lauren Valle of MoveOn.org approached Paul and tried to give him an “employee of the month award” from Republicorp. Republicorp is a fake business MoveOn created to symbolize what it says is the merger of the GOP and business interests controlling political speech.
Television video shows Valle, of Washington, D.C., being pushed to the ground and at least one foot stepping down on her head.
Stepping? No. Stomping.
