Comments on: A good old fashioned book burning, updated for the modern age. https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/ ... Because I don't watch enough hockey, drink enough beer, or eat enough bacon. Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:37:46 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.1.6 By: NRA’s scapegoating tactics: an attempt to clear the deck for THEIR video game? » Lousy Canuck https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22430 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 18:37:46 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22430 […] relaying of the NRA’s last attempt to blame video games for the Sandy Hook shooting, and the game-burning fires are barely quenched, and there they are, releasing a video game of their very […]

]]> By: Alex Jones rants about a NWO trying to take away his guns » Lousy Canuck https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22429 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 18:26:41 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22429 […] out of the three he managed to ask, tells me why I got a comment the other day demanding the rounding up and burning of antidepressants. There is now apparently a parallel narrative forming where antidepressants are responsible for […]

]]> By: Jason Thibeault https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22428 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 22:22:23 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22428 In reply to Chris Cooling.

And by “garbage meds” you mean antidepressants that are peer-reviewed to be useful for certain classes of people?

]]> By: nakarti https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22427 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 20:03:08 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22427 (I’ll get ignored because its a few days old, but…)
Wait, now that I read the origin of scapegoat, aren’t violent media the blood sacrifice and gun control is the scapegoat that is set loose into the wilderness?

]]> By: Chris Cooling https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22426 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 19:57:11 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22426 Will they also round up and publicly burn all the Paxil, Zoloft, Celexa, Chantix, and all related garbage meds as well?

]]> By: Tony the Queer Shoop (proud supporter of Radical Feminism) https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22425 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 05:33:43 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22425 “…and while violent video games will shoulder the burden of influencing our youth, we shall continue to ignore violence of American football.”

]]> By: eucliwood https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22424 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 02:42:18 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22424 Ugh, feel sorry for any people who have had their games taken out of their bedrooms for stupid parents who decided to go “ohh look! well thats the last straw hun, and there’s a game burning service right there. Im taking this!”

]]> By: Scr... Archivist https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22423 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:16:36 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22423 I wonder if there’s some way to spring any of these games from their doom. There might be some bargains to be had.

Besides that, I’m as worried about this as I am about the Disco Demolition Night in 1979. That didn’t kill its scapegoat either.

]]> By: popeonarope https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22422 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:08:33 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22422 I don’t like it, but as long as they’re burning *their own* violent video games, I’ll call it wasteful stupidity & move on to the next topic of interest. Southington is no Selma, AL

]]> By: left0ver1under https://the-orbit.net/lousycanuck/2013/01/05/a-good-old-fashioned-book-burning-updated-for-the-modern-age/comment-page-1/#comment-22421 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 21:13:35 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/?p=11728#comment-22421 This wallpaper sums it up.

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