The funny thing is that this sense of expediency, the lack of accountability, and one set of rules for the powerful and another set for everyone else, is now coming to permeate American society. It's really not that important in the scheme of things, but tonight we see such a case in the world of sports -- the NCAA largely looking the other way from a major infraction because it would screw up the big bucks for the BCS title game. Remember the hit-and-run driver in Colorado whose job with a hedge fund made him too important to be charged with a felony? And there's not the time or the space (and note: this is cyberspace, which is infinite) to recount all the low-life scum on Wall Street who got away with it.