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Poor John Edwards. First he has to deal with the bullshit Catholic League faux-controversy, and now we see his campaign headquarters in the alternate-reality game Second Life (basically, The Sims meets the Lawnmower Man) was vandalized by virtual Republican toughs. Let’s see, there’s some commie posters, him in blackface, a giant rainbow-penis thingy, and that huge doo-doo starfish hovering above it all.

Can you imagine Lincoln or Washington planning for this type of thing?

This article appears in March 2 • 2007.

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