People have shopping addictions, too. Why don't we make a law requiring malls to hire more guards to follow women around and then forcefully expel them from the premises after 3 hours? In fact, lets have them all sign in and out every time they enter a retail facility, so we can keep track of their weekly and monthly shopping habits, too. Maybe then we can move on to libraries. We wouldn't want kids spending too much time reading books instead of getting exercise, now would we?

By the way, in case you haven't noticed, this country's GDP is solidly grounded in services provided over the internet and fueled by efficiencies gained through online communication and e-commerce. If not for the internet, this country wouldn't have the GDP you cry we're suddenly going to lose. It's the internet, it's not the plague.

-- KateVershov - 15 Jan 2009