tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post5500182580603610037..comments2024-03-28T15:17:43.056-04:00Comments on Stayin' Alive: The Tsarnaev trialCervanteshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11302076828795198187noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-10454926500443135572015-01-09T00:00:29.746-05:002015-01-09T00:00:29.746-05:00Well, there's certainly no GOOD point. But how...Well, there's certainly no GOOD point. But how many of the decisions our government makes have healthy motivations?Don Quixotenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-73365737723723274862015-01-08T14:29:49.234-05:002015-01-08T14:29:49.234-05:00There is no point. This is pointless. Incarcerat...There is no point. This is pointless. Incarcerating him for life without parole not only does the job, but it does it less expensively -- and does not keep everyone affected reliving it again and again as the appeals go on. (As they will, and must. That's the due process that we all believe in.)kathy a.https://www.blogger.com/profile/14479337952651746193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263167.post-69103716041282935662015-01-08T02:23:42.343-05:002015-01-08T02:23:42.343-05:00Yeah. It's really weird. Perhaps--prosecutoria...Yeah. It's really weird. Perhaps--prosecutorial zeal aside--it's just too big an opportunity for the media to turn aside, and there's pressure all around to produce a big show? Maybe prosecutors wanting to be in the limelight? Seems like Marshall McLuhan's statement back in the 60s that politics and show business had melded just becomes truer and truer.Don Quixotenoreply@blogger.com