For the past couple of years, my husband and I have been trying to strike the right balance in our approach to video games. Prohibition, in this day and age, seems impossible. Mindless adherence to a rating system designed by the very same techno-mad geeks who create the games themselves seems, well, mindless. And leaving it up to the kids themselves seems like child neglect, putting it mildly.

Just yesterday I was whining about how Tuesday night's State of the Union speech lacked substance. Turns out the substance, in this case, was the sideshow.

I'm talking, of course, about the T-shirts. Talk about your teachable moments!