The Heir's been reading the local paper, printed on *actual paper*, so that when he turns the pages, the paper makes a distinctive rustling sound.  He hasn't yet come across an item in the local paper that's caused him to rustle the paper with indignation.  But he did read that Bachelor Borough and surrounding towns in Bachelor Blue State have passed ordinances prohibiting pot stores and related businesses from opening up in those towns.  That's a sex shop law that the Heir for once can support, and it's answer he sees to that whole Let's Pot Everyone impulse that led up to pot getting legalized in the state.  The ordinances are acknowledgably tough laws, but the Heir doesn't see that as going far enough.  He's pretty sure there are towns that are not likely to make the August 21 deadline only because those towns only meet 2-3 times a week to introduce ordinances and vote on them.  So if Town X about 15 miles away passes an ordinance on the 25th, but it's the 21st, somehow that's not supposed to count?  The Heir's hoping there's a provision in the new pot law that allows towns that didn't make it by the deadline to petition for a 60 day extension in court, or to otherwise appeal a post-8/21 hegemony by the state.  To be sure, BBSC and some towns in that area have committed to allowing for pot shops and so forth, but again an 8/21 deadline the Heir sees as not allowing a town enough time to decide for themselves *and* make use of the new covid19 relief money that's come from Washington through BBSC.  They're divided between legislating on pot and legislating on making use of the relief money before it expires about maybe next April or so, on a use-it-or-lose-it-basis.  Also if a pot shop opens up right after 8/21 and yet the town hasn't had a chance to say no until about 8/25, they should at least have the ability the Heir supposes to say, no new shops after the one that just opened up eventually leaves the town in some manner.  All this he sees as gravely disappointing what he calls The Potters in their vision for BBS despite the fact that some 2 million voters voted against legalizing pot in the state, because that's at least one way BBS can reach out to those those voters who voted against it.  It wasn't a landslide by any means.

MeToo has come back in the form of Cuomo, so the Heir hopes that forces the progressives' decision to use the voting rights issue to effectively tell Cosby's survivors to go jump in the lake after Cosby was let out of jail to kind of give them pause about that decision.  What he generally sees the progressives doing is getting all hot and heavy on a given issue at one point in time, often making it existential, and then 6-12 months they're onto something else, making *that* item existential.  It may very well be that as survivors speak out on Cuomo, a fair number of Cosby survivors would do so as well.  The Heir sees it as in the progressives' best interests to *not* snub the Cosby survivors a second time *and* see about placing the decision the PASC made a month ago under official oversight for the public record.  The Heir understands about voting rights, he agrees and hopes for passage for the voting rights acts, and he opposes the voting restrictions that are coming out.  But he acknowledges that at least one limit to this talking point memo of Nothing Else Matters Unless Voting Rights Pass is how he interpreted that a month ago to mean that the Cosby survivors are somehow not supposed to get justice in light of Cosby getting out of jail, just because doing so is not as important as voting rights.  A lot of the hot heaviness I the Mentor noted above involves what the Heir sees as progressives looking for ways to make people write a blank check, so if you could do a geometric proof that says if A is true and B is true then C is outright *absolutely* true, that the Heir sees as the progressives exploiting logic.  You can agree with A and B, and still oppose the C of Nothing Else Matters if your sense of Principle drives you accordingly.  This we in the Bachelor see as the limits of logic and science and rationality that the progressives so claim to uphold.  Once the wrong conclusion rubs up against the need for principle, principle has to win out if we as a society are to combat society's personal corruption.