Posted 2:51 PM by Gene

We do seem to have lost our capacity for outrage over Mexico, perhaps because it's just one outrage after another, and it's almost as if we think the country deserves such outrages. How many nations deserve thousands of drug murders a year? And shouldn't we be at least minimally outraged as all that killing could yet afflict us? (This we might add is where those borderline cable-TV nut cases come in -- by commodifying outrage they've made it useless.) Perhaps the scourge will go away -- the very thinking behind excusing such ignorance. Perhaps Mexico could have a civil war over drugs too. Best not to ignore it.