Tête-à-Tête-Tête

Just a few random notes. I don’t read much of John Cole’s web-site any more. Lately, there hasn’t been much there that hasn’t already been said on Daily Kos. But I was glad to see him counter the idea that we should go after McCain for his crony’s big payments to terrorists. [...]

We’re probably going to have to wait on this to hit DVD. I doubt a Chattanooga theatre will run it.  But anyway… the trailer will follow.  Not before a note about a recent study re-confirming the ongoing racism in the death culture. Nothing in the study or in my own experience helps me discern [...]

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He is a former Distict Attorney who cannot remember the exact number of capital cases were prosecuted under his office, and he still says that  ”Retribution is an acceptable goal [...] so it’s really hard for me to identify with, you know, what I refer to is the ‘turn-the-other-cheek’ crowd.”
I have to stop here and [...]

 Hearing today.
And if it weren’t for two documentaries, Web sites and rock band support of the “West Memphis Three,” the case would have faded away, said Jeffrey Walker, a criminology professor at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock.
“If it wasn’t the ‘West Memphis Three,’ if it wasn’t the West Memphis killings and it [...]

… Unlike the quote that inspired part 1 of this series, both the quote I’m interested in now, and the analysis from John Hawkins’ article do seem to represent conservative thought of the past decade or three accurately. I am skipping ahead a bit in the article, but I do intend to deal with all [...]

Olympia Snowe (”RINO”-Corporate America) has introduced an anti-phishing measure in the Senate this week that seeks to bundle the noble purpose of hobbling would-be phishers and the not-so-noble purpose of expanding the rights of corporate trademark owners. It would allow them the use of the federal government to serve as their personal law firm, [...]

You know Elliot Spitzer is kind of a folk hero on the left. There was no reason, prior to yesterday, that he couldn’t have aspired to the White House, rather than the Big House.
Now, I personally think that prositution should be handled differently by our society than it is. It’s an evil, [...]

From a letter to the Jamaica (the island, not the site of JFK Airport) Gleaner News:
Americans love to think the drop is a benefit of the death penalty. We cannot agree, because we are a death-penalty-free country. (In Europe, this punishment is strictly forbidden and the majority of the world is abolitionist.)
Actually, Italy ended capital [...]

Damien Echols of the West Memphis Three has a hearing. Just preliminary stuff, getting together a schedule for future hearings to cover a wide array of evidential challenges.

There is a lot of backstory to this. I still recommend Devil’s Knot strongly, to anyone who will read it. With the recent spate of exonerations of wrongfully convicted prisoners, the story of these young men still stands out. The book gives insight into how easily a wrongful conviction and death sentence [...]