Oh, how sensitive they all were. How considerate, how kind, how diplomatic. Governor Dannel Malloy, Chief State’s Attorney Kevin Kane, state lawmakers, all sitting secretly clucking their tongues in a sickly sweet chorus of concern. "We shall keep secret things too painful to be spoken of," they decided. Why, their very decision is so sensitive it cannot even be debated in an open forum.

I suppose we all ought to be thankful this unctuous gaggle of civil servants is protecting us from knowing the truth. But just who elected them to serve as existential censors?