"We tell ourselves stories…." * — Joan Didion
in "The Fifth Element"
Priest Vito Cornelius: I… have… a different theory to offer you, sir.
President Lindberg: You have twenty seconds.
* See also Friday morning's post.
** Today's New York Times—
"A version of this op-ed appeared in print
on July 23, 2011, on page A19 of the New York
edition with the headline: The Great Evil." —
