As I listened to this bland man as he told of his unspeakable acts I thought of the phrase "The banality of evil".
The writer, Hannah Arendt, wrote the phrase to describe that infamous Nazi Adolph Eichmann, in her book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil".
11 posted on 06/27/2005 9:32:11 AM PDT by Irish Queen