Let me put this together to see if I understand. On February 1, 2019, the Virginian Pilot brought to light a yearbook photo from the Eastern Virginia Medical School class of which Virginia's Governor Ralph Northam (D) is an alumnus. The photo, on his yearbook page, showed two young men, one in minstrel show style blackface and the other wearing a KKK hood. Northam's immediate response was to admit that he was one of the two young men pictured. It was not immediately clear which one, but he was clear that he was one of them. "I am deeply sorry for the decision I made to appear as I did in this photo," he said. That wording doesn't leave a lot of room for misconstrual. There were only two persons who appeared in that photo. Thus only two people made the relevant "decision," and Northam was saying he was one of them. He doesn't say which one, but that mattered little given how offensive either of them was. In the hours that followed, a numb...