Wolf Whistle

It's kind of amazing to me that, after all the harm he has caused the world, the indiscriminate slaughter of hundreds of thousands, the loss of America's moral credibility, the one thing that may take down Paul Wolfowitz as the head of the World Bank is that he got his girlfriend a plum job. This is busting Al Capone for tax evasion all over again.

We live in a strange world. What offends people's sensibilities, and what does not, constantly baffles me. A man can help push a country into an immoral war that is the greatest foreign policy disaster in generations, but when he pays off the girlfriend, noses are upturned. America has become a culture of scandal, but the filtering mechanism is broken so that each scandal is treated with equal relevance, whether it's Imus saying something racist or torturing prisoners in Iraq.

Strange.