I was beginning to worry that my ability to feel outrage had simply been burned out by five long, soul-deadening years of the Bush administration. But then I learn that even those parts of Michael Brown’s resume that weren’t relevant to the business of disaster response are essentially a well-padded lie, and I find that this little breath of fact is all it takes to stir the coal of my anger to new life beneath its dusting of ashes.

To quote distinguished psychopath Klaus, from the film Die Hard, “I… WANT… BLOOD!“