Some folks may remember Victor Morton

He was the co-founder of the now-vanished “Coalition for Fog” blog (now completely made to vanish down the memory hole on Google, but the existence of the blog is still recoverable from archeological spelunking on other blogs contemporary with it). The blog, which labored with might and main to justify, excuse, explain away and champion the torture policies of Bush/Cheney (policies which are, I might add, still being excused, justified and held in reserve “just in case” by the Obama Administration) was born after Morton conceived an ice cold hatred of your Dark Lord, who found statements like Morton’s famous declaration that
“The word ‘torture’ is a classic example of what Ayn Rand called an ‘anticoncept’ — meaning a term with no specific referent, except the speaker’s disapproval” to be contemptible rubbish. The purpose of the Coalition for Fog was to expend as much energy as possible pretending to be baffled about what O what torture could be while urging the moral argument in the general direction of “How close can we get to torturing somebody without it being, you know, torture?” Oh, and it was also to provide a forum for being able agree with like-minded people about my pure evilness.

Well, times have changed. Victor’s now suddenly filled with a deepening sense of foreboding about the corruption of our moral culture. He is concerned–terribly concerned–about people who push and push and push and push and push against moral boundaries with a mind to tiptoeing as close to grave sin as possible–in Doris Day movies.

“You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!” – Jesus of Nazareth

Lucy is a good girl and would never torture anybody.