I've been following with great interest and much scrutiny all of the wheelings, dealings, and proceedings of J*** T****son's attempt and failure at preventing Rockstar's PlayStation 2 game Bully from shipping to stores. I know that many a game player get a real kick out of JT's antics, and most hate him out of spite mixed with a little ignorance. I share much of these same feelings, excluding the bit about being ignorant. Still, among all of the unbelievable legal stunts and antics that comprise JT's career as a lawyer, no one seems to have brought up what I find to be a very odd patern. JT seems to be stuck on attacking games made by Rockstar Games, and/or games that either have an M rating, or a game JT thinks should have an M rating; this befuddles me. I recently bought the Family Guy video game. I am a huge fan of Family Guy. I have played through a few hours of the game and can say that if you like the show at all, you'll love the game. It's a little difficult, but all the humor from the show is in the game, and then some. It's the "and then some" part that I wonder, really, why JT hasn't gone after. There are a lot of jokes in the game that would not make it onto an aired episode; even the box says "Too racy for TV" on the back of it (or something to that effect). Also, JT hasn't attacked such games as Call of Duty 2. Which even I have the belief that the content matter is a little too mature for the game's Teen rating, but of course that's just my opinion. And that's just the thing: people, JT included, have to realize that the ESRB rating system is just a guide, much the same as the MPAA ratings for motion pictures is just a guide. In the end, the consumer has to make the decision. The Florida judge who presided over the hearing concerning Bully, a Judge Friedman, said "There's nothing in the game that you wouldn't see on TV every night" Bully received a Teen rating because the content was deemed by ESRB raters as having content suitable to receive a Teen rating. This is, however, no license that you have to agree to let your teenager play Bully. Judge Friedman even said he wouldn't want his kids to play Bully, but that "that shouldn't mean that the game won't ship." Judge Friedman nailed the issue on the head. The responsibility of making sure that content too mature for some teenagers stays out of those teenager's hands is the parents of those very teenagers; not the game development studios', not the courts', not a lawyer from Florida (or from anywhere else for that matter), it's the parents' responsibility. That is where the responsibility has always lie, and that's where it always should lie.