Friday Fun Link
Via The Agitator comes the Spending Explosion flash game, in which you slap GOP officials with the Constitution (a Cato Pocket Constitution, to be exact) whack-a-mole style in an attempt to keep runaway spending under control. For extra verisimilitude, it appears to be a Kobayashi Maru. Random D.C. incestuousness aside: The game's designer, Brian Kieffer, now lives in my old apartment.
Editor's Note: As of February 29, 2024, commenting privileges on reason.com posts are limited to Reason Plus subscribers. Past commenters are grandfathered in for a temporary period. Subscribe here to preserve your ability to comment. Your Reason Plus subscription also gives you an ad-free version of reason.com, along with full access to the digital edition and archives of Reason magazine. We request that comments be civil and on-topic. We do not moderate or assume any responsibility for comments, which are owned by the readers who post them. Comments do not represent the views of reason.com or Reason Foundation. We reserve the right to delete any comment and ban commenters for any reason at any time. Comments may only be edited within 5 minutes of posting. Report abuses.
Please
to post comments
Man, I beat those guys senseless, prevented them from spending a single dollar, and I still lost. This calls for violent revolution.
Wonderful! Add a few zingy embellishments and market this game!
It should be marketed to students, starting in grade school, to teach them early the proper relationship between our Constitution and elected officials. Also, it conveys the attitude that the founders of our republic advised that we should have regarding those in power.
But, there should definitely be congressional Democrats to whack as well since the Democrats in congress voted for even way more spending than Bush advocated, and way, way more spending than did their GOP counterparts in congress:
http://www.ntu.org/misc_items/rating/VS_2003.pdf