Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Most people with the faculties of reason, or at least a primative central nervous system, would have to agree, at least occasionally, that the world is a messed up place.

Take the Death Penalty for instance: it's an amazingly depressing topic of conversation, no matter how you cut it, or what your opinions are concerning it. Yet EVEN HERE, there is opportunity to wonder at the apparently maniacal joy the Universe takes in creating situations where several parts coexist in the same Space-Time Continuum, even though everyone from Issac Newton to the speaking brain Steven Hawkens tells us they shouldn't.

I took some time out of remarkably unbusy day yesterday to watch the CNN coverage of Stanley Williams' execution. It was average for the most part, complete with the prerequisite set of characters: the red-faced, rage engourged death penalty advocate who takes a little too much pleasure in death to be taken seriously, the well-meaning and righteous mother of another murder victim radiating equal parts rage and forgiveness like an emotional quasar, and the nun, there to make you feel like a spiritual amoeba.

The Nun and Death Penalty Advocate invariably fight, which is to say, the Death Penalty Advocate spits furiously as the Nun proclaims that she loves both the victim and killer. There are commerical breaks in between, of course, so they can mop of the studio and cut a few eye brows before the next round, and it is here that I realized how wonderful the world is:

Before cutting to commerical, CNN broadcasted a still photo of policemen standing in front of San Quentin's gates, across which hung the banner: "This is a non-smoking area." Well thank God!

That second handsmoke will kill you. And that's just wrong.

I love this world.

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