The American Medical Association got together and decided that video games are now officially addictive.

This announcement eclipsed some other headlines that came out of that same AMA meeting. In case you missed them, here they are.

• Car accidents can lead to injuries.
• Getting hit with a hockey puck hurts.
• If you stop breathing, you will die.

If people doing something in excess equals addiction, then why haven’t I heard anything about rock climbing addictions? Or swimming addictions? Personally, I think I suffer from a baseball addiction.

Most of you are going to laugh this off, but I contend that this is some bad news. It paves the way for morons like Elliot Spitzer, who already mopped the floor with the radio industry in New York, to legislate and enforce some insane crap. Laugh at that headline now, but beware. This is going to get a lot less funny before it gets better.

Look, I know there are people that do literally nothing except play video games. They’re too lazy to get up and get a job or mow the grass. But addicts? Are they going go into muscle-clenching mouth-foaming withdrawal if they can’t log in to WoW? If so, I stand corrected, and I can’t wait for THAT video to come to YouTube. Until then, I’ll be over here in the corner, looking concerned.

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