"Farewell, morality. When there is more publicThis is a pretty good example of why I think some of the critics of progressive politics are on target. There has been plenty of negative play given to the shooting in the media but it hasn't quite generated the letters (active expression by the people) that the cigarette did. Go figure.
outrage over a soldier photographed smoking a cigarette than there is over a Marine shooting a wounded Iraqi in the head (in a mosque, no
less), you know that morality has left American soil, flying away on the
Orwellian wings of corporate media and their master manipulators. "