But their outrages made news and, oddly, they brought Branson credibility that allowed him to sign people like Steve Winwood, Boy George, and Peter Gabriel.
That an American ally — and the recipient of $1.3 billion in U.S. military aid — perpetrates such outrages makes the circumstances even more appalling.
But Obama's outrage makes him seem a little jejune.
Cox was outraged, making a formal complaint to the PCC and taking legal steps to ensure that the pictures could not be sold elsewhere.
"The election of Syria to the U.N. Security Council would be an outrage, making a mockery of the council's recent counterterrorism resolutions," Representative Tom Lantos of California, the senior Democrat on the House International Relations Committee, said in a statement.
A good point: we should leave it to our enemies to announce and define themselves by such laws, and the fact that Paul is the only Presidential candidate to call attention to the outrage makes it an even greater cause for despair.
Olga was a social and strategic asset for the paradoxical public persona Picasso constructed in these years, when shock tactics and guerrilla outrage made him the nearest equivalent to a Parisian George Bernard Shaw: part mage, part monkey, fawned on and feared by the society whose most basic assumptions he mocked or overturned.
The orgy of media coverage following his death -- for days, there was little else on television or in the newspapers -- introduced me to an icon with no American or English equivalent: a singer-songwriter, filmmaker and poet, a Wilde-worthy aphorist and a provocateur whose talent for outrage made Johnny Rotten seem like Johnny Mathis.
Lynne Truss, Kamm's predecessor at the Times, opines in her book on punctuation that anyone who misplaces an apostrophe should be "struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave": her envenomed outrage makes me feel more kindly about signs advertising "Tomato's" on grocers' stalls.
Somewhere, not far from where she was, people were in the streets, marching, protesting Dorismond's death, their outrage made even greater by the fact that the Dorismond boy was the American-born son of a well-known singer, whose voice they had heard on the radio back in Haiti.
