Like a Rolling Stone

Many tactics comprise the compromising onslaught of corruption bedeviling our beloved country. But the sum of these tactics is a tactic in itself, if not a strategy--to overwhelm the opposition with the sheer scope and intensity of the treachery.

Always, those trying to protect the institutions and traditions of democracy are back on their heels. And, for the perpetrators, no stain of accusation sticks as they roll along like a stone, one outrage after another, now on a downhill path of momentum.

There must be a valley there somewhere. There isn't a point or goal to the destruction. It's now its own end and an addiction--compulsive vandalism. We watch, helplessly hoping--hoping it will end and that something will be left when it does.