In Charge and At Large!

Over this past weekend I had a couple of conversations with some people about the whole prom night controversy and one of the things that got said, which I've heard many times before in other contexts, was that, "don't you think the people in authority know what they're doing?"

As if that is any answer when they demonstrate that, clearly, whatever they're doing it has nothing to do with common sense, ethics, or any kind of honesty.

I've  been hearing that rejoinder for decades, ever since...