“I don’t know exactly who engineered it — Howard Rubenstein? Karl Rove? Dick Cheney? — but I know it was someone diabolical. Vick — a convicted pet torturist — has been masterfully eased back into mainstream America, slowly slowly, as if into a scalding hot bath. And this is America we’re talking about. Petland, where we’re better to dogs than we are to the poor.”
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In today’s Plus Ça Change: a rare column about sports, “The Laundering of Michael Vick.”
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