One of the dumbest things journalists/columnists/editors do is pretend that part of their function is to simply air a wide range of voices. This is, of course, horseshit, as there are plenty of people and perspectives which never get any kind of airing in their reported stories or on their opinion pages. But, hey, if my bankrupt local newspaper thinks airing the views of a man who claimed to believe that no treaty or existing law could prevent the president from ordering a child's testicles to be crushed is an important part of their civic responsibility...
