Spiked covers risk and why we’re so risk-averse lately.
Fox News sues a parodist thereby making him famous and keeping him in business. “Faux News” is a great idea– but I prefer “We distort, you deride” to their slogan. Note: ask politely, then ignore unless it’s a real threat. Stupid lawyers.
Michael Kinsley has taken up my idea about deregulating marriage.
BusyBusyBusy has been doing the “very very short summaries” theme recently. For example, the George Will article Lap Dancing on the Constitution is summarized as: “By my logic, private consensual sex is indistinguishable from public sex acts, commercial sex transactions or marriage contracts, so if one is constitutionally protected then all must be outside the purview of the state.”
I should note, in response to Will’s article that commercial sex transactions may be regulated as they are commerce, that public sex acts may be regulated as they affect the view, and that private sex acts cannot be regulated as they are nobody’s business.
On the other hand, that would be feeding the trolls, which of course I do all too much already. And as they say, arguing on the internet is like being in the Special Olympics: even if you win, you’re still retarded.)
Secretly Ironic 