From the brilliant minds at Lysol comes this gadget: Not pictured: germs It’s the no-touch automatic soap dispenser! For only $20, you can protect your hands from all those horrible little nasties that lurk around that most contaminated of bacteria-laden filth-spreading home equipment: the soap dispenser. See, germy disease-ridden hands come along, touch the soap…

My country used to condemn this, as any decent human being should. Not anymore. Xenophobia, fear, lack of accountability, and an the-ends-justify-the-means approach have gotten us to this: Medical Ethics Lapses Cited in Interrogations To be sure, I think McCain would have been a far worse choice, but I am increasingly disquieted by the sweeping…