sympathy for the devil

We haven't said anything about the Tom Coleman trial. It was an ugly, sordid mess, the kind of thing we always knew was lurking under the dark underbelly of this part of the world. Somehow we'd always known it would eventually come to something like this, felt it in the dark, forgotten depths of our souls every time we grimaced at some comment some psychotic hillbilly prefaced with "Now, I ain't a racist but--"

Still, when the filth finally burbled to the smoky surface, we really didn't have anything to add. And Grits for Breakfast seemed to have the whole thing covered.

But this morning, the Disembodied Voice of the Amarillo Globe-News opinion page penned a very strange editorial titled "Perjury is best justice can do". The newsroom ghost seems to argue that Tom Coleman shouldn't serve any jail time. Using the time-honored tools of Redundancy, Opaqueness and Circular Logic, the Disembodied Voice says that "justice had been denied already to so many" that "doing the same thing to Tom Coleman" would be a "miscarriage of justice."

Come again? What in the holy living hell does that mean?

We're hoping that the Disembodied Voice has simply belched forth a really, really poorly-written string of gibberish. Because the alternative is that our local newspaper is defending one of the most savage racists seen in this region in decades.

Either way this particular rant wouldn't have been published with a byline.

SPACEDARK