Great line from Eugene Robinson:
The story line was a classic: Beauty and the Beast. Remember the Atlanta courthouse shootings a few months ago? Brian Nichols was the ogre whose homicidal rampage led him to the apartment of an attractive young woman named Ashley Smith, who soothed his savage breast by speaking gently of God and redemption. That he was black and she was white seemed to deepen the narrative and give it the status of myth.
Oh, did I say myth? I meant meth.
The rest of the op-ed's great, too. I'll have more on it a bit later, likely over at Tapped, but you should read it in full anyway.
Speaking of Tapped, I've been getting a lot of e-mails upset at the lack of comments over there. Nothing I can do about that, but I could, at the end of each day, link my posts over there, summarize each one, and put up a thread for comments on them. Would you guys want that?
