"We fear the anarchy, the feral fanaticism and, at the heart of it, the primeval bugbear . . . " Yes, and what we fear most of all has come to pass: Linton Weeks, the WaPo's poetaster of Style, breaks down the cultural meaning of looting. But 12 or so graphs into his bugbear-baiting, our Style savant clearly loses track of things and resorts to that last desperate gambit of all lazy elementary school book report authors: He supplies a dictionary etymology. "The word 'loot' comes from Sanskrit and means 'booty' or 'spoil.'" But I dunno, that just isn't
A Tool's Guide to Loot
A Tool's Guide to Loot
A Tool's Guide to Loot
"We fear the anarchy, the feral fanaticism and, at the heart of it, the primeval bugbear . . . " Yes, and what we fear most of all has come to pass: Linton Weeks, the WaPo's poetaster of Style, breaks down the cultural meaning of looting. But 12 or so graphs into his bugbear-baiting, our Style savant clearly loses track of things and resorts to that last desperate gambit of all lazy elementary school book report authors: He supplies a dictionary etymology. "The word 'loot' comes from Sanskrit and means 'booty' or 'spoil.'" But I dunno, that just isn't