I’m sure most believed it was all behind us now, pinning the violence that rocked the UK last week on video games. Perhaps you’ve heard, but the London press tried pinning it on Grand Theft Auto, which upset enough sensible folks to demand a retraction. One was issued eventually, albeit in a half-assed manner.

Well, here we go again, with the source of this week’s lame brain social commentary hailing from the former lead guitarist for Oasis. He was quoted in a recent New Zealand interview, which the Huffington Post picked up (among several outlets) as saying: “I don’t care what other people say: Brutal TV and brutal video games are a reason for this pointless violence as well. The people are immune to violence, they are used to it.”

In his defense, he goes on to say fairly sensible things, like: “The people who are at these riots aren’t poor. These are kids with fucking mobile phones and all sorts of shit. The police and government have to take drastic measures. These idiots destroy their own communities. In six weeks, when everything is forgotten, they will look stupid and realize that the houses are still destroyed, burned down or whatever. These people aren’t demanding anything, they have no goals. They just destroy their own shit. How stupid can you be?”

True, and completely sensible. Which makes his finger pointing at video games all the more perplexing. Then again, much like the rioters he’s hating on, everyone wants a scape goat and easy answer to everything. Especially rock stars who act like gigantic man-children, as Gallagher has proven to be more than a few times in the past. The funny thing is, the guys’ been complimentary towards video games in the past, somewhat, when he said Guitar Hero was… “better than two goblins trying to fuck a donkey up the arse with a laser beam.” LOL, British people!

In better news, no doubt you’ve all heard about the poor Malaysian student who not only had his jaw broken by rioters, but then had his PSP (among other things stolen) stolen while being helped by good Samaritan. Well, in addition to Sony hooking him up with a new system and a bunch of replacement games, which is certainly nice of them, the dude who did the stealing has been charged. Hey, sometimes there is justice in this world!