What Atrios links us to, here.
In light of what I said below, about Niebuhr, Blake, and Shearer, this shouldn't be a surprise at all.
Not to say we can't all be disappointed. But the truth is, all outrage is personal. A gap that grows wider and wider among us as we pursue our post-Enlightenment, post-Romantic, "individualism."
"The best lack all convictions, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity."--Yeats
An ugly fact of 'public' life. One that will only get uglier, as the Internets helps us magnify it.
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