Back in 2003, a period when Steven Den Beste was routinely cranking out brilliant 5,000+word essays on a daily clip. (Don't try this at home, kids!), he wrote a terrific piece on the post-9/11 credibility gap that Amnesty International has been suffering--very much a self-inflicted wound.

Which has yet to heal.

Related: Tammy Bruce, in her first op-ed in nearly two years, writes, "Teddy Bear Case Exposes Failure of American Feminist Leaders".

Chalk up both Amnesty and feminism's silence to yet more crippling cases of "Hypocrophobia."