I was coincidentally in Paris for the weekend when news broke that two imbeciles had hurled pumpkin soup over the Mona Lisa at the city’s Louvre museum, to protest against hunger. Because obviously, nothing says “let’s help hungry people” more than deliberately wasting buckets of food that could have fed them! The word “imbeciles” is appropriate because it’s a French derivative of the Latin “imbecillus” which means a criminal of feeble mind. This act of wanton pathetic vandalism against the world’s most famous painting was clearly a crime, and the breath-taking ignorance in thinking the best way to raise awareness...