I started typing this with a bit about the frozen things falling outside, with a bit of a lament that it’d be over soon, and that what I’m hearing is the only frozen precep in the forecast for the foreseeable future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Coffee retrieved, and th sleet has stopped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The stockings aren’t hung by the chimney with care. We don’t have a fireplace, and such barbarism won’t be allowed long here in the Beltway Swamp. The only acceptable burning odor allowed is the strangely-legalized weed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Keep Virginia Blue. Just like Harry Byrd<\/a> intended.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Could have been his dad, too, who was also loathsome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So, what else is up?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Bad Saints’ loss last night. I missed most of it because I was fitting in the last bits of work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n At least they’re not the Giants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And maybe I should get past the irrational annoyance I had about them with the weird defense and boring offense gone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n But it is difficult to do when it’s the Saints on the receiving end of a drubbing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n So. What else is going on? I looked to see if I had something I wrote probably around the time my dad died (late 2010). I changed my mind about capital punishment. This is a power the state should not have. Yes, I take into account the Church’s teachings<\/a> on it, but, perhaps reflexively, I think it’s just a power the state shouldn’t have.<\/p>\n\n\n\n If someone is truly awful, he can stay incarcerated forever. I don’t care. See Sirhan Sirhan. You know, the guy that the Libertarian coming into Trump’s cabinet thinks didn’t kill his father<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do I care that he’s never going to get out of prison? Nope. Not really. <\/p>\n\n\n\n But news yesterday had two stories that really had me being okay with them being killed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The first was these two from Georgia<\/a>. That one conflicts me even more, as they didn’t kill anyone, which is the standard for all executions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The other was the case of what happened in the NYC Subway<\/a>. I selected that story because it doesn’t have some of the photos that were on Twi^H^H^HX<\/strong>. Yeah, he can die. I understand I shouldn’t feel that way, but I do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n