Thoughts On Learning About the Regulator-Moderator War

…which is this thing, discovered during a brief foray into Wikipedia’s list of feuds in the United States.

1. Probably not going to be adapted for television?

2. What if the Crips and the Bloods were named the Regulators and the Moderators?

3. Would that be scarier, or less scary?

4. Scarier, right?

5. What if the Regulators worked for the SEC, and the Moderators ran high school debates?

6. They probably didn’t have gang colors, but if they did, which of them would get to be sepia?

7. Have you ever read this book? It’s great!

8. Who was the first person ever to say “use your words” in an attempt to dissuade people from acting out physically?

9. Is there any possibility, however slim, that prior to killing an opponent, one of these men might have said: “Regulate this”?

10. Or, alternatively, “Moderate this”?