Hey everybody, Norm Ornstein is my guest today. And for those of you who are regular listeners to this podcast, Norm is the only one of my guests who is any good at all. So just so you know, unlike all the others, this one is not a complete waste of your time.

Norm and I have a wide-ranging discussion. We recorded it on November 5th in the wake of the Virginia

election. So since then, a few new developments. Some Virginia parents are now calling for book burnings of books like

Tony Morrison's beloved and not just, you know, to add to Virginia's carbon footprint. They say

the book, which won a Pulitzer Prize for the Nobel laureate is pornography because it contains violence

and sex and violent sex. These parents wrote a complaint actually saying, our 16-year-old boys

get quite enough pornography on their iPads, thank you. We send them to school to give them something else to do with their time for God's sake.

Can you just give them a break from the constant porn?

A few other things have happened since Norm and I recorded this.

Arizona Representative Paul Gozar posted a video of him murdering Alexandria Cassio

Cortez.

That seems like it wouldn't wash in a normal workplace.

Paul, did you make a video of you assassinating Alexandria?

Yes, I thought it was pretty funny.

Yeah. Okay, I thought it was pretty funny. Yeah.

Okay, Alexandria didn't.

She didn't.

No, she said it made her feel very uncomfortable and frightened her for her life.

Really?

Well, that certainly wasn't my intention.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Well, that certainly wasn't my intention.

Yeah.

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