Marine Sergeant Rob Richards. via

For just a moment I allowed myself to think that it could be the first sign of a turnaround in the media culture of the past forty years, or that by one of those mysterious shifts in the température d’âme that happen from time to time, there might now be a new tolerance, honor, and reason, and at least a partial abandonment of the scandal craze which has held our public life in thrall for nearly half a century. Of course that was too much to hope,...

 
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