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Here’s one from the Big Shock Department–news is that one country is looking at a total ban on all things video game, from the lowliest Mario port to the biggest splashiest Grand Theft Auto game.

Now, you may have some names in mind already for the culprit, so it probably won’t surprise you too much when I tell you just which country it is. It’s AFGHANISTAN.

At this point the video game industry is quaking (with laughter) in its very boots as it contemplates the sheer horror of losing the entire Afghani video game market, which must amount to thousand and thousands of cents each year.

But it’s not just video games, either–the law, proposed as part of a Taliban-esque “Let’s Bring Afghanistan Boldly Into the Fifteenth Century!” package of moral hand-holding at gunpoint, also seeks to ban “dog and bird-fighting, pigeon-flying, (and) billiards” as well as video games. Billiards. Yes, because as we all know there’s trouble, right there in Sadr City, with a capital T, and that rhymes with P and that stands for POOL!

It was ludicrous enough when it was in The Music Man, and it’s even more ludicrous now that someone’s actually taking it seriously.

That and I don’t even know what “pigeon-flying” is, and they want to ban it? What, they’re going to kill every pigeon in Afghanistan to keep it from flying? And while I’m on the subject, aren’t we on like year fifty billion of hunting for Osama Bin Laden over there? We blew up a whole government over there and now they’re pulling this stunt?

Well, folks…if that weren’t a reason to make you glad to live in America, where you can still kind of get your hands on the video games you want to play, I don’t know what could be.

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