We Have Stories, and Our Stories Reflect Moral Complexity. They Have Doctrine.

• Sophie's Choice, The Americanization of Emily, and Bradley Manning:  The process of hard choices (and torture).  Arthur Silber, making purveyors of "morality" look like buzzy-voiced unthinking jackals.  
• Via three different sources, one young woman rescued by food stamps (and kindnesses).  Comments unkind to jackals the politicians causing this quandary.