Friday’s Conversation Topics

This Friday wraps up some great news stories that will help you with entertaining conversations with those you meet this weekend, even if all you do is click around to ChatRoulette.com.

I have to start this week’s news with one that affects us all: free speech in games versus protecting kids from graphic violence and suggestive sexual, often violent, depictions. While I don’t agree that the government has to babysit what we choose to watch I do agree that the standard should be higher to protect youth from violence, even if it is in movies or video/computer games.
- Supreme court will rule on violence in video games accessible to minors. Yes, someone has to define what is acceptable.

- Sandra Bullock files for divorce. So sad for Jesse James. Does this mean he’ll go back to making porn? And who’s going to get the lion’s share of the money, along with custody rights to a baby that isn’t either of theirs?

- Man eats 1,500 lightbulbs. Starting at age 12, Wang Xianjun, 54, of Sichuan Province has been eating lightbulbs. Not whole, of course, but in pieces. Regular doctor checkups show no adverse affects. His secret is being carefully monitored by the “Revolutionary Sex For Women” people… the relation escapes me.

- Man fined €14,000 for ‘ass-bombing pool’ in Germany. Not quite you think an ass-bomb is the equivalent to a cannonball jump into a pool… but this still qualifies for an interesting conversation topic, don’t you think?

Have a great weekend!

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