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The Curmudgeon on Outrage

Opinion, by Michael Royster

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - It’s been a good week for outrage, in Brazil and abroad. A Brazilian higher court held that two defendants could not be convicted of the rape of two 12-year old girls who were prostitutes. Outrageous! On Maundy Thursday, the Pope issued a roundhouse condemnation of women as priests. Outrageous! Günter Grass decried nuclear Israel as the gravest threat to peace in the Middle East. Outrageous!

In the Curmudgeon’s view, what has deserved more outrage than those is President Dilma’s abject caving into the industrial complex of Brazil . . .

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