One reason nerds are nerds is that parents don’t make them play sports. They wile away the hours at Dungeons and Dragons while other boys are outside playing sports. They park in front of video games, gobble potato chips and Cokes, and pretend to wreak retribution on the world. Yet for all their electronic bravado, they are fat, soft, torpid and complacent. Whose fault is that? (R. Cort Kirkwood, Blame Isn’t Sporting, The Ottawa Sun, 05/9/1999, p. C4.)
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