1. Glenn Greenwald excoriates Dems for Assailing free speech

2. In a passage removed by Paine, Twain excoriates "the iniquitous Cuban-Spanish War" and Gen. Leonard Wood's "mephitic record" as governor general in Havana.

3. For the heteronormative Cisgender person investigating trans sexuality, for example, this is often simply a matter of disavowing direct association with the matter under consideration--giving a shrugged mea culpa if you will (cf Smith, 2013)--which at once excoriates and exonerates in that it suggests that there will inevitably be faults due to that personal distance from the subject, but that