By ZamboniWe all know from high school lit classes that the definition of a Greek tragedy is when the hero of a drama brings ruin upon himself by his own actions, a character flaw or a moral weakness.
Gosh, have we seen a lot of that this week.
Wall Street invites outrage by giving its executives ridiculous bonuses. Go, Claire McCaskill!
Blackwater is banned from Iraq because, oops, its vigilante security forces needlessly killed 17 Iraqi citizens in 2007.
Israel sets itself up for a withering bitch-slapping by the Turkish prime minister at the economic summit in Davos.
Rush Limbaugh (pictured, looking fat) says he wants the President to fail.
We cats sense a pattern. Except, we quibble with the definition of a Greek tragedy in that it refers to a "hero." We see no "heroes" here.
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