During the transition, he warned the incoming President that more "repugnant" actions would be necessary to shore up the financial system and restore economic growth.
It tells a very engaging story; it plays in interesting ways with our sympathies (Malik sheds his victimhood and his morality together and takes control of his destiny through repugnant actions); and it delineates a wide array of characters with well-chosen behavioral traits.
To validate the odious ethnocentrism that follows it, Thomas opens his piece by suggesting the repugnant actions of some Muslim immigrants towards women in Europe will surely spill over to the United States unless something is done.
Sure, he is a convicted rapist who should never be allowed near a professional football team again – but his abhorrent actions and subsequent utter lack of remorse have given some particularly charming men an excuse to come crawling out of the woodwork and broadcast their repugnant views.
In a statement, Campbell called Simon's action "repugnant and totally unacceptable".
But when we find the killer's motive as repugnant as his action, we put our fingers in our ears.
The militants "strongly condemn this repugnant and inhumane action," a Taliban statement quoted by AFP news agency said.
"Today Der Spiegel published photographs depicting actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States Army," the Army said in a statement released by Col. Thomas Collins.
They can do that, the theory goes, only if they are not held responsible for what society in general, and a judge and jury in particular, find repugnant in the actions of clients the lawyers are representing.
Arguments will always rage over Ruth's decision to stay with her in-laws and apparently service their needs: I know women who, to this day, find her actions repugnant.
In a statement, the army said it apologised for the distress caused by photographs "depicting actions repugnant to us as human beings and contrary to the standards and values of the United States".
