Few bits of news have haunted me more than the revelation that Anthony Fauci used his position to lever cash prizes for himself.  Yes, it is government corruption, but when combined with his diaries, it is something worse.  The man’s quest for fame, and now revealed, fortune is almost the stuff of fiction.  Like the bad guy in a fable, it is as if he was concocted to be an object lesson in what not to do.  Something is so wrong in the man’s soul that I pity him as much as I condemn him as a government official.