What the Instant Replay and Executing "Actually Innocent" People Have to Do With Each Other
It's a big week in instant replay controversies, in politics and in sports, which is a weird thing. The Rams v. Saints game, and the calls to "watch the whole tape," made me think of George Will's long-standing grudge against the instant replay in baseball. It always struck me as bizarre, if not entirely unsurprising, considering his careful cultivation of the image of a curmudgeonly railer against "innovation" and "novelty," those Burkean bugaboos. Introducing the instant replay is fine, says