Eugene Volokh proves that C++ isn’t any better than C. To think I wasted all that time learning the class structure. He later updated with some dispute over whether (C++ < C) actually evaluates to true or false, but I tried it at work today and it was true. My apologies to anyone who doesn’t know anything about programming.

The Greek ban on all videogames was overturned by the courts. Honestly, I don’t know much about Greece – last I heard about them they were conquered by the Romans and I’m sorta surprised to find out they’re still around – but I wonder about how Greece’s democracy works if their parliament could be filled with enough idiots to first pass that ban. According to the article, they had no clue that banning all videogame would be an issue. Now, I don’t think many of our congressman frag each other online, but most seem to be able to use iota of sense before just suddenly banning something. I think we should send some human rights monitors over there to make sure everyone can play chess online uninhibited.

In case you were wondering what is wrong with America, The Guardian was kind of enough to put a number of reasons on their Comment page on Sept. 11th. Simon Schama thinks that our problem, among other things (he suddenly start rambling against big businesses as if possessed by Nader), is our religiousness. He wonders why we didn’t use the horrible attack to doubt God. Something that could be debated, but I question his timing unless one would argue that tact is a purely religious virtue.

Khalil Shikaki blames America for absolutely everything that has ever gone wrong in the Middle East (I guess that’s a change from blaming the Jews). The reason that Muslims there are so pathetic, stupid, and oppressed is because America is so big and mean. I didn’t finish the article, but I assume it ended with Shikaki suggesting Muslims, instead of praying towards Mecca, should pray towards America since we have such absolute control over them. Me, I say we be a wrathful god.

Mark Hertsgaard, a “fellow” American, blames our media for our problems in his ludicrous editorial, saying all we get is government propaganda and asserting against reality we don’t have any debate over here about the issues and that American news tried to hide that Bush told countries “either you are with us or you are with the terrorists.” Where the hell did they get this guy? Did The Guardian just grab the first loon they could find in America who was standing on the street corner raving about our nation? And if one wonders why we don’t listen more to other countries, it’s because we have people Hertsgaard locally if we want to hear the views of a whiny little bitch; why waste money on an international call.

If you ever wondered what sad, pathetic excuses for human beings read The Nation and take it seriously, here is a good indication. They asked for letters from their readers on how Sept. 11th had changed them, and in response they got whines about patriotism, knee-jerk screeds about Bush and Ashcroft, and, of course, the ever lovely “we deserved this”. If I found out all my readers were such hateful, intolerable scum, I’d probably commit suicide… no, wait, make that murder-suicide; I’d at least be courteous enough to first clean up my mess.