Reaction.

• Position: Letter to the editor

"To be fair, the end is always nigh for someone. Death and taxes. Hell, sometimes death by taxes."

--reason.com commenter "anon" in response to "American Apocalypse" (January)

"The threat of violence from a hyper-sensitive, supposedly religion-based group has led to self-censorship in the West for years now. Might as well make it official."

--reason.com commenter "Fist of Etiquette" in response to "The Rioter's Veto" (January)

"There's a positivist bias here that fails to take into account the fact that most of the data in question [are] irrelevant to my decision-making process. They can study whether bacon is good for me until the end of time, geometrically increasing the amount of hard data on the subject at ever-increasing rates, and it just won't...