They don't just make crimes a crime for no reason. But imagine you're on the jury and you didn't like the police. Would you care that the police did extra work? No, no. Not if you didn't like the police, you wouldn't care at all.

And you would say, you know, all he did was a joke. It was a hoax. So what? So he gets away with a hoax. It ruined his career, ruined his reputation. He's already paid. He's already paid the price. Do you see how easy it would be to rationalize voting not guilty? You could get there so fast. So I think Jonathan Turley is kind of onto something, that the Smollett defense might be a lot stronger than you think even though it has nothing to do with whether he's guilty.

So the mind-boggling thing is that he's not even going to deal with the question of whether he's guilty. I mean, he says he's not guilty and it's not a hoax, but he can't prove it and he can't even hurt the evidence against his case.

Anyway, in more interesting news, over in Saudi Arabia there's a camel beauty pageant and 40 camels were disqualified for receiving Botox injections and other cosmetic enhancements. Now I didn't mention what the other cosmetic enhancements were, but I'm assuming hump enhancement surgery because there are some camels that have really, no fault of their own, but just naturally small humps and they do get teased by the other camels. The other camels will be like, hey flatback, hey flatback. And a lot of camels will say, you know, I'm just going to get the hump enhancement surgery. But apparently that will disqualify you from the beauty pageant in Saudi Arabia.

Must control myself. Do not make culturally insensitive joke. You must move on to the next topic. Okay, got it. That was close. I almost didn't get out of that without getting canceled. Make your own jokes at home. That has nothing to do with me. You are culturally insensitive. I am not.

Let me give you an argument that sounds like I'm disagreeing with you but I'm not. Can you handle that? I'm going to give you some nuance. All of you binaries, please leave. Anybody who can't handle the idea that some argument has more than two positions, just go away now. Leave now because I'm going to be confusing you. If anybody doesn't get that things can be complicated.

Here's the thing I've been noodling on, which is that one of the big things that people say against mandates, and you must understand I'm against mandates because the next thing I say could be misjudged as being pro-mandate. Everybody okay with that? I'm completely opposed to mandates, completely. But the next thing I'm going to say is going to sound like I'm on the other side. Can you handle that? Of course you can. You're not only sexy but you're open-minded and beautiful in a lot of ways. So I'm going to trust you with this.

It goes like this. Most of the good things we have in society are because we restricted freedom. I'll just let that sit there for a moment. Most of what's good in society happened because of restrictions on freedom. Yes or no? Do you need an explanation of that? Well, let me give you an example. Did we win World War II because of a volunteer army? I don't know, maybe we could have, but we didn't.

Do you like the fact that criminals can't do anything they want? Do you like a world in which criminals are at least most of the time sent to jail or there's a police force to keep people fr