Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:

Every gun control argument you ever heard, explained in one sentence (emphasis added):
“We don’t elect futurists. We elect mostly lawyers, which means people who think the world is not only made of words . . . but that if you change the words the world will change.”
I read Sarah Hoyt, not because she’s such a great writer or even a great thinker, but because she occasionally hits the ball over the stands, out of the park and into the river. This is one of those moments.
Joe Doakes

This is up there with Lileks’ observation – that politics is full of smart people who believe that process actually accomplishes things.