20th
From today’s THERE’S THE RUB: “…The direct consequence of constantly lowering the bar of morality or decency is that morality and decency disappear in the end, to be replaced by lack of conscience or compunction. If you can be outraged by outlaws cold-bloodedly executing nine hostages, you have to be outraged by law enforcers dragging Jonas Burgos in the dead of day to a waiting car and making him disappear forever. You have to be outraged by the now hundreds of activists and journalists who have been shot in the head by their captors, many of them wearing uniforms, and buried in shallow graves.
“The people who coined the phrase “culture of impunity” got it completely right. Not just in the word “impunity” but in the word “culture.” Cultures, biological or social, have one definite characteristic:
“They spread.”