Sick Transit

…when the riot police wear shorts.

From Nobel-winner Thomas Schelling, paraphrased by Mark Kleiman:

When you see an organization acting recklessly, don’t leap to the conclusion that the people running the organization are themselves reckless. Perhaps they’re all such cowards that none of them dares to say to the others, “We can’t get away with this.”

This week’s South Park episode already has an entry in Wikipedia, which not only contains a synposis of the plot, but also a lengthy list of violations of WoW rules in the episode.