You remember, I’m sure, beloved reader, the punk-rock initialisms of the 1980s—back when the kids could name their bands with impunity, in decent obscurity, without being pilloried on cable news, devoured by the Internet, or investigated under the Patriot Act. MDC stood for Millions of Dead Cops, JFA was Jodie Foster’s Army (Jodie Foster being the celestial object to whom John Hinckley Jr.