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Commentary on state politics by Bill Christofferson, who often uses Xofferson or Xoff to shorten his 14-letter last name.

Christofferson, a recovered journalist and ex-political reporter, has been a Democratic strategist and consultant for 20 years and is now retired. He lives in Milwaukee.
He is the author of a political biography, "The Man From Clear Lake: Earth Day Founder Sen. Gaylord Nelson," published by the University of Wisconsin Press.

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Summerfest stops the virtual killing at its lakefront festival

Posted July 2nd, 2008 by xoff
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Chalk up one small victory for the antiwar movement and common sense. The Journal Sentinel reports:

At the request of Summerfest officials, the U.S. Army on Tuesday removed a virtual urban warfare game that allowed fest-goers as young as 13 to hop into a Humvee simulator and fire machine guns at life-size people on a computer screen.

Peace Action-Wisconsin began a campaign on Tuesday to shut down the "game," asking people to call Summerfest to complain. It didn't even take a whole day to get results.

Congrats to Peace Action, Veterans for Peace, Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice, blogger Michael Mathias and everyone who got involved and made a phone call.

As background, yesterday's post on the subject.

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Virtual killing

Submitted by patrick (not verified) on Wed, 07/02/2008 - 9:53am.

Well, at least they didn't shut down the Grand Theft Auto demo at the playstation booth.

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