Bloomberg is launching a new “fast commentary” section that is explicitly dedicated to hot takes. Just what the media needs.

Bestselling author and real life attorney John Grisham recently told an interviewer that the law really needs to start distinguishing between real pedophiles and sixty-year-old white men who get drunk and download child porn, or whatever.

Steve Forbes, the mostly shiftless heir to a crumbling media empire, has opinions about tomorrow's referendum on Scottish independence, and has been allowed, for reasons we find obscure, to air them in the Telegraph.

The super-smart takes on the Adrian Peterson debacle just keep coming. Almost as soon as the Minnesota Vikings running back was indicted for child abuse, people started chiming in with all sorts of opinions they should probably have kept to themselves: Charles Barkley called beating a child just a black, Southern thing. CBS found an expert to argue that the line between discipline and child abuse is just really, really blurry. And now Fort-Worth Star Telegram sports columnist Mac Engel beseeches us not to judge Petersen just because he "overdid it," adding, with what is probably meant to be folksy charm, "there are a lot of good people who administered similar whuppins before."