Friday, March 05, 2010   Philadelphia couple rob Jewelry store,
leave four-year-old son behind.  The prefix meta means, among
other things, something that comes later and transcends
something that came before. Thus we have things like
metalinguistics, metapsychology, metamathematics, metalanguage,
and so on, developments that have transcended their originals.
It seems to me we might wish to refer to metacrime,
metacriminals, metacorporations, and perhaps even
metainterrogations, for all of these developments seem to have
surely transcended everything that came before. It is true we
sometimes speak of megacorporations, but mega just means they
are big, meta implies that not only are they big, they are
unprecedented in scope and power and international in a scope
far transcending any corporations before. Similarly, metacrime
ought to describe what has now become more or less legal in the
banking and insurance industries. These businesses have been
systematically fleecing a gullible public for years and mostly g