Fresh from publishing a tacit endorsement of vote fraud, Slate has found someone to be annoyingly, mechanically counter-intuitive on the Indiana-Detroit riot:

Sure, it was wrong for Artest to run into the stands, and wrong for Jackson to run in after him throwing haymakers, and wrong for the fans to douse the Indiana players with beer. But when a crazy basketball player charges into the stands and tries to pounce on some drunk jerks, I don’t fly into a rage on behalf of the nation’s children. Nope, I just kick back and enjoy the spectacle.

Everything you thought you knew is wrong! Last time I sarcastically predicted an upcoming defense of drunk driving and grand larceny — guess I wasn’t too far off…