As long as we are distracted, entertained, occasionally outraged, always polarized but largely uninvolved and content to remain in the viewer’s seat, we’ll never manage to present a unified front against tyranny (or government corruption and ineptitude) in any form. ...
Officers in the Southern California town last week found the body of Eric Valencia, 37, decomposing in the back seat of a black-and-white police vehicle located directly in front of the station house....