To all the "First Contact" commenters:  so, um, where must the line be drawn?

It's been awhile since I've read "Eichmann in Jerusalem," but I think what Arendt meant by 'banality of evil' was the bureaucratic side of the death camps, the process of the pencil-pushers who consigned millions to their deaths.  I don't think she meant it as a 'evil people can be normal and boring too' kind of…

Whatever Mizzou guy.  Say what you will, but watching Steve Guttenberg die of radiation poisoning in ALLEN FIELDHOUSE is so awesome you don't even know.  Signed, Bill Self.