Just saw a note on my phone that Amanda Knox was acquitted in Italy. Good. Can’t comment extensively now but I thought I’d throw out a quick squib and invite another set of train wreck comments like the last time I visited this subject.
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Not zero comments!
I think the problem here is that you did not enter enough googleable terms. Like the judge’s name and such.
Well, this was just a squib; I’ll write something more elaborate and thoughtful about it later when I have the time.
I don’t remember that trainwreck – link?
All I can say about the case is that the reversal is mindboggling, and if she was truly innocent (and I tend to think so, but I have no idea how much her looks affect my judgment beyond knowing for certain that they do…), horrifying. The idea of going from wide-eyed student-abroad with all of life’s possibilities ahead of you to being arrested for murder, jailed, conviced, sentenced to 26 years in prison, serving four total before being released is just too much for me to even conceive of experiencing. It must be said that worse injustices happen every day, of course (such as going from going about your daily, one-dollar-per-day existence in Afghanistan to being killed by a missile from an unheard overhead robot), but if indeed there was never sufficient evidence for Knox to have gone from suspect to prime suspect under prosecution (and in Italy the fact of an eventual conviction, we have learned, does not imply that there was), this was a miscarriage of justice of a high magnitude. To think of how much less possibility she sees in the world now than she would had she not spent ages 20-24 in prison and on trial – just think of giving those years of your life up. It’s unthinkable.
Of course, if she was involved in planning that satanic orgy and it got out of hand…
It got really bad. You may regret this, wardsmith. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
That’s not a train wreck. That’s… something else. A train that got hit by a plane while passing over a bridge and fell off to land on a freeway.
It’s always weird to see a handful of new names all show up at the same time and all of the new names have history together.
Then, with as much warning as before they arrived, they’re gone…
Social engineering experiment, Burt.
See if you can bring them back.
Likko shudders.
Do it for science!
On Usenet, there were a number of trolls who would constantly search for their names, so that saying more or less innocently “That sounds like something XXX would say” was enough to destroy a thread for good.