Today, the terrorist who killed Dr. George Tiller was convicted of murder and assault. It took the jury 37 minutes to come to a verdict. The soonest he could possibly see parole is in 25 years — and given his age, it’s entirely possible he won’t be alive then. Thankfully, the judge did not allow this trial to become a circus, did not allow abortion to become a central issue, and did not allow the defense to argue voluntary manslaughter, because Dr. Tiller never posed any sort of threat whatsoever — not even an imaginary threat — to the defendant. It’s hard to argue that the someone you admit you’ve been stalking for 10 years posed a danger to you.
I will not glorify the terrorist by naming him. Let him die forgotten.
Now if we can only do something about the thousands of other people so mentally ill that they think murder for God is acceptable.
In Closing: we had positive GDP growth last quarter, but you’d never know it to look at reality (more evidence that the way it is currently measured is flawed); David Sirota on Disaster Porn; must read item on jobs and economic justice; now Ezra Klein says Rahm Emanuel makes him very pessimistic about health care reform! Gee, really Ezra? Rahm made me pessimistic a good solid year ago. Sometimes wonks can be insightful, but sometimes they can be nearsighted.
“An outsourcing tsunami…”
Let us go further than the stagnation of wages in the seventies… let us look to an outdated elementary-high school school system which still churns out workers with twentieth century skills, no sense of civic duty or understanding of civic involvement and little or no critical thinking skills. (ooh but we know how bad the white man was two hundred years ago, and that it is ok to bump uglies with folks of the same sex…)