The Sin Curve

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The next note refers to Miers' withdrawl. This would seem to indicate that the presidential experiment in independence from right wing nuttery is at an end, and that his next choice will be more reflective of the political tastes of 'his base.' If so a fight looms. But there are those who are fond of reminding us that the president is president of all the people, not just the nuts. So we shall see: what course will this stumbling duck choose? All the world waits to know.

Frontline had a great piece on corruption in Peru. As I watched it on tivo it dawned on me that everybody has a price and that a person's price was personal. That is to say that everybody has a personal price. Everybody is a whore, but some of us demand an exhorbitant price, while others of us are relatively cheap. We can all be bought (thump). It is only a matter of price.

But is it that simple? Not exactly.

I imagined a graph on which the price could be plotted against the crime. It seemed to me that if somebody were to plot such a graph the result would resemble a Bell Curve.

There is no question that at one end of such a Bell Curve would reside those folks whose price for an extremely small crime was huge, whereas at the other end of that same curve would reside folks whose price for a truly horrendous crime was small. We could label such a plot the 'sin curve' (or something like that). I use the word 'sin' because such a graph would plot offenses which were not only criminal but also moral.