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What a thoroughly depressing week. For those of you who are old enough to remember a time when being able to say “superior logic” didn’t mean you are political savvy, here’s a question: remember those days when we said we will never be as corrupt as the Sani Abachas of Nigeria, or the Mobutu Sese Sekos of Zaire?