Crime and Punishments

Zuckerberg could be tarred and feathered and then made to run across the Golden Gate Bridge in black Speedos through a line-up consisting of overworked young tech employees, homeless men and women from the Tenderloin, and poets and novelists who still write their stuff on typewriters, all armed with large wooden paddles and instructed to strike Zuckerberg on the bottom as he passes by. If Zuckerberg survives the mile-plus run he's allowed to continue running Facebook.

And so on--Cosby, Weinstein, the Nobel guy who fondled his assistants, Henry Kissinger, Dick Cheney, other liars, plagiarists, dissemblers, real-time villians, the Rev. Jimmy Swaggert, Putin, Paul Ryan--in which the punishment fits the crime, tailor-made for TV.

A new reality TV show: Celebrity Punishment. An entertainment, not unlike "American Idol" or "Dancing with the Stars."

Given the current influence of the Christian right and its longstanding and notorious devotion to both crime and punishment, there might be something here.