[AnotherUnixGeek]

That would result in people on all four sides raining down insults, boos, laughter and finger pointing.

Aww - a mainstream journalist is forced to go a few minutes worth of the same contempt he shows every day for ordinary Americans in flyover country and he has to write an entire article whining about it. Let find my electron microscope to see if I can't locate a violin small enough to accompany this article.

[taterjay]

It reminded me of reading about the aptly named tramp chair — a 19th-century instrument of humiliation where undesirables were strapped into a metal chair and pushed down the street for people to yell insults and for kids to poke them with sticks.

It reminds me of what the media does every day to Conservative Presidents, Congressmen, Supreme Court Justices, and American Citizens in in flyover country.