From RR

• Vatican to bishops: obey the law and report abuse. Of course!
• LRC pick: we’re neither the left nor the right.
• Turning migrants into status symbols. SWPLs showing off.
• Capitalism is the greatest achievement of human history.
• The endgame is near. Thomas Knapp notes: Why do I find myself doubting that the right will let the left do all the work of eradicating liberty?
• What an activist of 43 years has learnt. Essentially that the political process corrupts. I think I join the cultural right in criticising her call for an end to cultural standards on sexual behaviour. Cultural standards such as the church’s, sì; state standards, no. The church is in the truth business and should be voluntary. It’s none of the state’s business.
• On taking back the country from both parties. During the Bush administration and Republican-majority Congress, the rallying cry of liberal Democrats was that it is time to “take our country back from theocrats, neocons and fascist Republicans.” Riiiiight. ‘Question authority, man, but not mine, because I’m better than you; see how cool I am.’ The theocrats were never a threat, the neocons do suck but they’re only the left’s bastards and fascism isn’t limited to the GOP (Mussolini for example was a man of the left). And the current Republican tone is only a replay of the 1990s when they were mimicking us to get back at Clinton. Glad they boxed him in; he ended up the best conservative president in recent memory.
• Arizona: idiot pols try to write Know-Nothing wet dream into law.
• How to lose viewers and alienate audiences. Rather like TV Tropes without all the references to comic books.
  
  
  Make TV shows where noble district attorneys figure out how to twist laws around to prosecute anyone they find personally offensive. But treat any defense lawyer who cites the Constitution to defend his clients as slime.

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