Tookie Dookie

Wonder how that molten lead bath's treating ol' Tookie right now?

Probably not quite as bad as the constant harangues from Nancy Astor and Madeleine Murray O'Hair, surely, amiably chatting about Hitler while bored zombies devour their brains.

Lanz at Fulcrum Ruminations distills the Tookie Talk of the past few weeks down quite nicely:

There are those who argue that the death penalty is not a deterrent to crime. Those people are wrong. The death penalty is an absolute deterrent to the person upon whom it is inflicted. Removing Tookie from the world, for example, is one hundred percent effective in preventing him from murdering anyone else.

One might say the same about shooting Saddam Hussein while he sat befouling himself in his spider hole.