Quote of the Day:
May 18, 2013
“If you’re going to do something wrong, do it big, because the punishment is the same either way.”
-Jayne Mansfield, American actor, as quoted by Paula Munier in “On Being Blonde: Wit and Wisdom from the World’s Most Infamous Blonds,” 2004
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In Boca Di Lobo
The world watches as Hosni Mubarak is wheeled in on a gurney to face trial, and Anders Behring Breivik pleads not guilty to acts he acknowledges he committed.
Is there now a fad to present reviled figures as infirm, insane, or otherwise unable to stand trial? Are the insane responsible for their actions? This is a huge question, and the answer takes wide pendulum swings as societies trade in their paradigms for new ones. This happens once or twice a century, sometimes more.
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