Halloween Is Over (You Can Take Off The Mask)

"Either one knows what one is doing is evil or one does not. If one knows and does it anyway, one is evil, not some special subcategory of evil. If one doesn't know, one is ignorant, and not evil. But genuine ignorance is rare when evil is going on."

-- Ron Rosenbaum, with another line I'm taking as a sign that common sense is making a comeback - and sooner than expected - in Slate.