Pat Rock on Jan 19th, 2010We Really Need a New Word for Looting
We Really Need a New Word For Looting (from the Awl)
“Looters,” reported the Wall Street Journal yesterday from Port-au-Prince, “were scaling a crumpled building, apparently a grocery store, and throwing items to the assembled throng below.” That “looting” is traditionally construed to mean illegally obtaining goods for one’s own benefit—not for the benefit of a [...]