The winners and the losers

• Winner: The Division of Child and Family Services has a high turnover rate. That's because its caseworkers deal with some of the most dramatic, gut-wrenching examples of abuse and neglect imaginable, while often searching in vain for real solutions.

All of which makes Richard Anderson's career so admirable. Anderson, the division's director since July 2005, is retiring after 34 years with the agency. He has been described as an idealist who believed the division could make a difference, and his departure will leave a huge void — one that will take a special sort of mettle to fill.

• Loser: The folks complaining about the Slamdance Film Festival pulling a Columbine-based game from its annual gamemaker competition in Utah need a reality check. In a story in this newspaper on Friday, they complained about the decision hurting free expression and keeping the industry from becoming an artistic medium.

Free expression cannot be divorced from consequences. Create a game that puts a player in the role of the disturbed young men who massacred students at Colorado's Columbine High School and the consequences are that people find it offensive, unseemly and incredibly insulting to the families and friends of the victims. Sure, you have the freedom to produce the "art." The public, including folks in charge of competitions, are free to reject it.