The Dying Men

Russian propagandists try to sue their way out of their shame

“When a man becomes weak enough to accept a bribe, he’s already a dying man.”—Gilda, 1946

I was watching a Glenn Ford-Rita Hayworth film noir last night, and a mobster explained that when a man becomes weak enough to commit his first criminal act, he’s already dead inside.

What shame they bear from the first time they said ‘yes’, rather than ‘no’, to easy…