Insulated from the firestorm, perhaps

I don't hear much about the whole Roman Polanski thing from here in Athens. Maybe it's because there's this snap election coming up, and local idiocy has swamped whatever's coming from France and Switzerland, and the local news from Stateside doesn't penetrate here, anyway.

So what I hear is third- and fourth-hand. And somehow, I can't summon the outrage. Does that make me evil in my own right?

Granted, what Roman Polanski did thirty years ago was sick and wrong and pretty much evil, and if I'd been in the DA's office back then instead of first grade, I probably would have held out for years of hard prison time, instead of offering a plea-bargain that amounted to a slap on the wrist.

( That being said... )