Joe Soucheray: Minnesota dentist's real mistake was killing a lion with a name

The essential problem faced by Walter Palmer, a Bloomington dentist, is the fact that he killed a lion that had a name, Cecil. Never mind that it was a lion and that lions eat their young if they get hungry enough; the very name of the beast inspired a great Greek chorus of the unwashed, who probably thought Cecil was the star of "The Lion King.''