I Give Up

Best – and scariest – story I've read all week. According to this fascinating BBC report, the Austrian rapist/abuser/crazyperson Josef Fritzl was not, as the world believes, a master criminal. Turns out he was a bumbling, incompetent fool who left tons of clues... but the Austrian police (fresh, one assumes, from their consultancy work on The Keystone Kops) were just too rubbish to realise anything was wrong.

I'm at place in the Venn diagram where outraged and dumbstruck overlap.