Yeah, I know I’m posting like a bastard today and Ben will likely revoke my privileges, but there are just too many interesting things going on in the world. The current issue of Rolling Stone contains an article by Richard Rhodes entitled “The Media-Violence Myth.” Rhodes points out flaws in the studies that politicans and pundits routinely use to tout a link between violence in the media and violence in society.

Rhodes writes with anger from his gut and cold logic from his brain; the most damning evidence is the admission by a study’s author that only three boys out of 145 were convicted of violent crimes and showed a tendency for watching violent television. Three boys.

The article isn’t yet on-line, but you can read a little bit about it here.

Rolling Stone 854 is on the stands now.