Live long enough and you will see it all.

I guess I've been hearing it for years now as the country has slid into knee-jerk relativism. Till now though, it's merely been an equivocating grandfather clock in the background, metronomic, at worst nettlesome. It was at the beginning of l'affaire Polanski, though, that I realized how much I've come to detest the word ''but.'' With a simple wave of the conjunctive wand, we now believe that we can explain away absolutely anything!