Madame Defarge, Call Your Wine Shop

E. J. Dionne, Jr. hopes populist outrage over the AIG bonuses and other corporate welfare schemes will lead to better public policy -- and not, one hopes, bonus recipients having to continue to worry about their and their families' safety. The fiercely eloquent anonymous poster at "Body Parts" wonders if Congress's probably unconstitutional confiscation of the bonuses could be seen as affirming vigilantism.