Reaction.

• Position: Letter to the editor

"Besides surveillance and information, something politically relevant in [Philip K. Dick's] books is the question of authenticity and indistinguishable fakes. Our obsession with narrative over cold fact means that we are always trying to suss out the authenticity of the candidates' identity and narrative when in the end it doesn't matter because they'll likely vote the same anyway."

--reason.com commenter"Marty Feldman's Eyes" in response to "Philip K. Dick's Visions" (October)

"[Scott] Walker had to make his compromises with reality. Recall that absent reform that the unions would not agree to, the entire edifice of teacher pensions would have collapsed. That's fine by me, they're commies top to bottom, deserving of slow starvation in their dotage, but Walker was more compassionate. He saved the idiots...