NOTIONS: Collateral killing: It’s good for business!
“But you were always a good man of business, Jacob,” faltered Scrooge … “Business!” cried the Ghost …”Mankind was my business. The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.” Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol” Sunday night, about 10, I was watching the movie “Collateral” in the basement. I was trying, sans success, to get my mind off work and my wife Pam’s bout with cancer for a few hours. Pam was one floor…