While Scott Johnson is the undisputed manliness leader among the Power Line trio, I don't think that his colleague John Hinderaker is going to be needing testosterone supplements any time soon. Here's his view on how the matter of protests at funerals, which the Minnesota Legislature just voted to ban, should be handled:
This strikes me as one of many examples of our culture's obsession with legal remedies. As a lawyer, I suppose I shouldn't complain; but as a citizen, I think it's ridiculous. If a bunch of crazies show up waving signs at a funeral, the appropriate course is for an able-bodied man--there should be at least one at any funeral--to take a sign and break it over the ringleader's head. One of the basic problems in our society is that nearly all informal sanctions have been forfeited, so that there is hardly any middle ground between passive acceptance of antisocial behavior and a felony prosecution. Legislation and criminal prosecution are blunt instruments that cannot be brought to bear against every deviancy that may arise.
Meanwhile, Paul Mirengoff continues to write about soccer, widening the "cojones gap" gap between himself and his muy macho compadres.
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