So yesterday I am “driving” around Southern California.  I put that word in scare quotes because traffic in SoCal is such that for the first time in my life I thought a self-driving car might be a useful thing as I crawled along at 10mph in bumper-to-bumper traffic.  Anyway, I hear a news report about the California Attorney General accusing Paramount of “blackmail” in its threat to leave California as the state attempts to block its merger with Warner Bros.  Let’s see, California business operates under a regulatory load, combined with heavy-handed enforcement, sufficient to invoke words like “hostage-taking” and “extortion” and a business doing what businesses do is accused of “blackmail?”  At some point the irony reached Twilight Zone levels.