You know we're in trouble when Congresscritters try to make Lord of the Rings analogies

"As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It's being drawn to Iraq and it's not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don't want the Eye to come back here to the United States."
-- Sen. Rick Santorum

Good article on WoW addiction and life destruction

It's true for any MMORPG or addictive habit, but particularly true for games like WoW. I can't see this as being a problem for me because I just don't have that many hours to play, let's hope those don't turn out to be famous last words.

http://soulkerfuffle.blogspot.com/2006/10/view-from-top.html