Hey I like video games, please don't pick on the gamers of this great nation. No videogamer ever killed anyone other than fellow students and mean teachers.

Also I think Anne is channeling Christopher Hitchens here - anti-intellectual, but in an elitist-hates-self kind of way. I think Applebaum, like Hitchens, must have had a very interesting family life.

As for your list of what is wrong with America, let's not forget the one million dead Iraqis. History will label this a genocide, especially as it was in every sense of the word avoidable. Bush/Cheney will be called a mass murderer.

You and I? We failed to raise our voices in protest, and so as citizens of a democracy we are directly responsible for the deaths of those people. We will each have 1/300th of a dead Iraqi to our credit.

- MW