On Tuesday, Tom linked to a John Tierney column on TimesDelete about the decline of South Park Republicans.

Reason has now reprinted that column on its Web site for free, so that it can escape from the black hole of the Times' bad business decisions.

This, from South Park co-creator Trey Parker, pretty much sums it all up: "The Republicans didn't want the government to run your life, because Jesus should. That was really part of their thing: less government, more Jesus. Now it's like, how about more government and Jesus?"