CULTURE OF CORRUPTION, FUGITIVE-FROM-JUSTICE EDITION: Civil rights leader Walter Fauntroy arrested at Dulles International Airport. “Fauntroy was booked at 12:30 p.m. on Monday and posted no bond. He’d just gotten off a long-haul, nonstop flight on Emirates airlines from Dubai to Dulles, said his attorney, Johnny Barnes. In January 2012, Fauntroy left the United States after a bench warrant was issued for him to appear in Prince George’s County, Md., on a charge that he wrote a bad check for $55,000 to help pay for a 2009 ball he organized for President Obama’s first inauguration.”

Like a lot of people who took high moral stances in the 1960s, his moral stance has become considerably lower of late.