Cato Institute by P.J. O’Rourke, author and one-time editor of National
Lampoon. It’s almost worth having this bad law just to get this brief,
a masterpiece that underscores the serious contribution satire brings
to politics.

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the UN to take over America.”

Laws like Ohio’s, it points out, “do not replace truthiness, satire,
and snark with high-minded ideas and ‘just the facts.’ ” Instead, they
chill debate and “turn commonplace jibber-jabber into a protracted