The Finest China in the Cabinet - The Dish.

Here it is -- Nothing has happened!

McC and I are here in the cramped apartment in JP. I still work and study nights at the large university in the Northeast. I am a little over a year away from my degree. No big scary stories to tell. Lots of little things happening, though.

If I were more of an entertaining, erudite, clever fellow I would write about how the banality and ignorance of humanity made me chuckle with derision. Like stories about the toothless, obese, chain-smoking piece of white trash on TV who swears "in her heart of hearts" (that would be somewhere under all the visceral fat) that she just knows her alcoholic, depressed, chain-smoking mother didn't light herself on fire with a cigarette. Her evil step-father murdered her mother, and he just has to pay (preferably in big bills, 'cause she doesn't have a bank account and she'd have to take a check to one of those check cashing places that charges 7 cents on the dollar).

Or I'd talk about the woman who insists that the man whose conviction in her daughter's murder was recently overturned "just had to have something to do with it." In spite of the fact that the DNA evidence that was examined exonerated the released man who had spent 18 years in jail. And when the suspect whose DNA matched the evidence was apprehended, he confessed to the crime.

Reason, logic, method, procedure; these things mean nothing to most people now. We don't learn about them in school, because everyone is too busy learning how to be culturally sensitive and have good self esteem. Now I am about as liberal and progressive as they come. I am not a neo-conservative, and old-school conservative, or any other kind of conservative. But I think there is some way we could move a little bit back from the complete relativistic model of standards we have now (I'm okay, you're okay, you can spell words however you want, grammar is a tool for white oppression, etc.) to some absolutes.

Like this. People who think that the criminal justice system exists to make them feel better about their lives are wrong. Sorry. Murder trials aren't about "closure" for the victim's family. They're about determining the guilt of the murderer and the appropriate sentence. You can't necessarily sue someone just because they lied to you. You have to take some responsibility for yourself, and if you got screwed because you thought you could just dump the blame on someone else if you didn't take the effort to find things out for yourself, then you pay the price.

Just because you don't agree with it, doesn't mean it's wrong.