By listing some of Wal-Mart's ever-multiplying faults, you have at least performed two valuable services: reminding those of us with a conscience why we never shop there and reminding your non-American readers that America's growing discontent with Wal-Mart indicates that they are not quite the ravenous consumer zombies of popular belief.

ECONOMIST: Under new management

"We have a clear conscience because we have never made our players take risks, " Domenech said.

BBC: Domenech rejects Wenger criticism

Maybe the only way Newtown never leaves our conscience and fades away like Aurora or Columbine is if we have to look at the results of the tragedy to ensure that this moment leads to a transformational movement.

CNN: America should see the Newtown carnage

For Europe and the U.S., realpolitik means understanding they can never outbid China, Russia or any other conscience-free competitor in supplying investment-as-aid to Southern Africa.

FORBES: Self-Interest Might Save Zimbabwe

You can't but feel completely isolated and frustrated for Al Pacino's Will Dormer, as the never-ending daylight plays with his mind and his conscience.

BBC: Insomnia: Your views

He knows what it means to hang up your life in the closet and pack your heart and health and conscience into a carry-on bag, and then set out for the airport and never look back.

CNN: Who chose George?

Its reputation as the conscience of the nation, nurtured over six decades among the Loden-coated intellectual classes, never recovered.

ECONOMIST: The French press is in bad shape