A Bitter Price Tag

Last night while cooking dinner, we decided to rev up a documentary that's been languishing on our Netflix Instant queue for ages: Witch Hunt. Suffice to say that we weren't anywhere near prepared for the ensuing 90 minutes, in which the filmmakers unwind a completely devastating J'accuse regarding the Kern County child-abuse panic of the 1980s. By the end, we were ready to tote our pitchfork to Bakersfield so that we could exact vengeance upon Ed Jagels, the district attorney who let this...