A hearing in front of three federal judges at a court house in san francisco. At issue was whether conditions under which the children were being held violated a previous legal commitment made by the government to provide safe and sanitary conditions. The discussion moved on to tooth paste, tooth brushes and soap. There are a thousand answers, obviously, but maybe one of them is that over the years, our moral vocabulary has become impoverished,. Which is a problem, because you cannot make sense of things that you cannot describe. And lumping together audacity and shamelessness creates a loophole large enough to drive a tank through.