Okay, I don’t mean that in a Senator Craig kind of way. Let me start at the beginning. I was visiting Purdue with a couple of Indianapolis friends to see a production of “Marat/Sade” by the Purdue Theatre department. And oh, what a show it was. Set in a bathhouse in the Charenton Asylum in 1808, “Marat/Sade” is a subversive, incisive play about how most revolutions end up serving the ruling class – if not the prior ruling class, then the new one! Ya know: absolute power has its way of corrupting absolutely. Oh, and here's the real title of the play: “The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade.” Continue reading "In West Lafayette, you can make friends in public bathrooms"