Edwards' campaign headquarters vandalized! Online!

I guess this counts as news, in the same sense that a headline such as "New study shows Americans are lard-asses" or "Officials: Stonewall Jackson still dead" counts as news. Reported by GamePolitics.com, of which I was previously completely unaware until the story was linked here from the Huffington Post, apparently

Shortly before midnight (CST) on Monday, February 26, a group of republican Second Life users, some sporting “Bush ‘08″ tags, vandalized the John Edwards Second Life HQ. They plastered the area with Marxist/Lenninist posters and slogans, a feces spewing obscenity, and a photoshopped picture of John in blackface, all the while harassing visitors with right-wing nonsense and obscenity-laden abuse of Democrats in general and John in particular.

Second Life is basically, so far as I understand it, a large online multiplayer game that's like World of Warcraft, only (in the nomenclature of our times) more gay because there are no axes. What I find even more inexplicable than the fact that the Edwards camp felt it necessary to make a digital avatar of Edwards' campaign headquarters is that some political operatives thought that by smearing digital feces on a digital building that is only seen by other no-life nerds (I guess in all fairness there are a few million, but a lot of those are Chinese digital-farmer-slaves who turn around and sell imaginary shit for real money), they could make a resounding statement of opinion that would damage Edwards' real-life presidential campaign. Except, of course, no one is casting ballots in Second Life (I hope), and that by demonstrating support for the opposing party by digital vandalism in a VIDEO GAME, that kind of makes the cause seem a little silly.

There is an exception, of course: until recently, you could go to Google, type in 'miserable failure', hit 'I'm Feeling Lucky', and laugh (also, 'waffles' yielded other-side-of-the-aisle results). Yes, I'm stilted, but it's hard to deny that's clever. Poop - especially digital poop - not so much.

Unless it's in "Caddyshack".