eam calls itself the "Fightin' Whites" - and is widely known by the more in-your-face "Fightin' Whities" - as a jab at nearby Eaton High School." So there's some question about the 'official' spelling of their unofficial name.
Gonzaga thought they got no respect before.. Chortle. Snigger. Guffa.
No one ever pleads permanent insanity, do they?
My first post on the Andrea Yates case was probably as incoherent as anything I’ve written, at least from my point of view. I stand by what I said, I think it’s all probably correct, but it was also entirely off the point of what I meant to say.
My original intent in writing the piece was to point out that we can never really get inside someone else’s mind. We can’t know for a fact what was going through Ms. Yates mind when she killed her children. In my humble opinion we shouldn’t care. While I think her behavior provides an operational definition of insanity, I think driving a jetliner into a crowded building is [almost] equally insane. So what?
I wouldn’t argue for the death penalty in either case, but I will argue that for the safety of all the rest of us, anyone who does something like this should be removed from society forever. For this reason, I really don’t believe in the insanity defense. Especially because it’s always ‘temporary’ insanity and often of the sort that’s already been ‘cured.’
I can see a place for an insanity plea in sentencing, as Ms. Yates would appear to belong in a rubber room. But that rubber room should have no exit to the outside world. Not ever.
From a can of spray solvent: “WARNING: This product contains a chemical known to the State of California to cause cancer.”
And we all know that the State of California is an authority on the subject.
Thursday, March 14, 2002- - -
Who cares who put it up, as long as they come down, that’s not my department ..
Dang! I’ve been so concerned with my computer ‘bombing’ that I almost forgot about the Google bombing!
The pissant pedant in me requires that I point out that although folks are crediting Megan McArdle with the idea, Megan’s post links an earlier post by Ben Sheriff, who appears to have constructed the first google bomb at the instigation of Charles Johnson, and has since been on a one man google bombing mission. None of this is important as long as the bombs keep dropping, so here’s mine.
Marc Herold Afghan casualties
Herold Afghan casualties study
Afghanistan civilian casualties
Herold collateral damage
Marc Herold Afghanistan study
Afghan casualty figures
Marc Herold Afghan casualty figures
Herold Afghan WTC casualties
Herold study Afghan casualties
Herold Afghan casualties study
Afghan civilian casualties
Afghan collateral damage
Herold collateral damage
Marc Herold Afghanistan study
Update: It’s entirely understandable that the history of the event ended with Megan. BlogSpot was being very flaky about the time all this occurred and I got a 404 the first couple times I tried the link to Ben Sheriff.
Sgt. Stryker is starting a spin off blog for all ‘the personal shit.’
I’d taken something of this same tack when I set up A Boy and His Blog for all the serious quasi-professional stuff. I’ll still make use of the little humanitarian when I have photos available and can post some of the interesting stuff I do, but I haven’t been over to the ‘Boy’ myself in quite awhile. I should drop the link in my favorites here until there’s something there worth reading.
I’d given thought to creating more blogs to sort the serious from the zany, but I decided that folks who read only the serious stuff would think me one grim sucker while folks who read only the zany would think .. well, probably what you all think anyway. Ah well, I decided to leave well enough alone for now. I can’t decide myself sometimes if I’m being serious and there’s times when I must laugh to keep from crying.
Just as I suspected. Glenn Reynolds is off to California and there’s just as much activity on his blog as usual. Did anyone attending that speech yesterday take note of which side the good Professor is parted his hair? The peepul have a righ