In a classic post, Matt Welch outlines the rules for what is sure to be the next gaming sensation. My favorites:
In addition to the obligatory Hofstadter reference, tip your glass whenever you read that... 2) Not only are things just like Hofstadter wrote back when interracial marriage was widely outlawed, they're actually worse. (Krugman variation: "But while the paranoid style isn't new, its role within the G.O.P. is.") ... 5) Somehow, despite becoming a regional party of (racist) southern whites, the Republican Party is MORE POWERFUL THAN EVER in thwarting the will of our Enlightenment Democrats. (Krugman: "In California, the G.O.P. has essentially shrunk down to a rump party with no interest in actually governing - but that rump remains big enough to prevent anyone else from dealing with the state's fiscal crisis. If this happens to America as a whole, as it all too easily could, the country could become effectively ungovernable[.]") 6) Previous generations of Republicans, no matter how evil we said they were at the time, were wise intellectuals compared to the rabble today. (Krugman: "At this point Newt Gingrich is what passes for a sober, reasonable elder statesman of the G.O.P. And he has no authority.")
It only gets better from there. Read the whole thing.