Remind me why I'm against vigilante justice, please. I know I am, but I just blacked out, when I tried to remember on my own.

I'll be sure to tell you as soon as I can remember why I am.

At the indictment hearing, they were playing (or had played) the 911 recording, and the woman's father just freaked and attacked the man, right in open court. He was, of course, arrested, and so much of me kept thinking, "Why?"

This reaction is understandable and I hope they go easy on the father.

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In other exciting news, EM got another freaky note in her mailbox. This one warning her to "be careful, now."

Fuck. Poor EM.

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In other exciting news, EM got another freaky note in her mailbox. This one warning her to "be careful, now." The police have it and are checking for fingerprints. She's completely losing her shit. She's only 5'1" and she's lost 27 pounds over the last three months. She's barely above 100 lbs now.

This has to be the assex, right? My word, poor EM. The universe needs to totally lay off her, right now.

Yeah. Well, in Northern California we had the woman who shot the guy in court who molested her kid.

Yeah. I felt the same way about her story.

But that storyline always makes me think about the St. Elsewhere episode where a guy goes into the hospital to kill the man who raped and killed his wife. And it feels righteous then. But that same character shows up the next year during a prison riot (one of the doctors was volunteering in the prison) and he was somebody's prison bitch. And he stood idly by while David Morse got raped. And he said, "I must have loved her very much."

I'm sorry, I am not following who is who, here. Who stood by? Who is David Morse, in this?

I still get the point, and I know (in my head) why it's wrong. Where I struggle with it, is in my blood.

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Poor, Em. I hope the police are able to do something that can give Em some peace of mind.

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Much calm-ma (and hopefully some resolution to this crap) for EM.

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David Morse is currently guest-appearing as Inspector JavertDetective Tritter on House, and making Dr House's miserable life even more miserable, if that's possible. (Not that it's undeserved.)

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I understand the urge for revenge, and I don't hold it against anyone. I don't call it justice, though. To me, justice is letting the courts deal with it--and hopefully putting the creep away for a long, long time.

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I'm sorry, I am not following who is who, here. Who stood by? Who is David Morse, in this?

Damn, my poor pronoun command! The who with the what with the how?

Let's see, the actor who used to play Art Donovan on Lou Grant? He was the husband. We'll call him Art. David Morse played a doctor on St. Elsewhere. His nickname was Boomer. Then there was the bad guy who killed Art's wife. They made him extra bad and taunty and the episode was mostly about Boomer having to treat the evil rapist scum because that's what doctors have to do. Treat people - even bad people.

Anyway, Art came in and shot the bad guy. He went to jail for it. The following season Boomer was volunteering at the prison when a riot broke out. He was trapped in the medical clinic with Art and Art's Prison Daddy. Prison Daddy proceeded to rape Boomer while Art refused to stop him.

Wheel of Morality turn and turn. Tell us the lesson that we must learn. That while the appeal of vengeful violence is obvious, it tends to perpetuate and cause other damages down the road.

Which I do think is true. (cf., the Middle East, tribal retribution etc.)

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I really need to get St. Elsewhere on DVD.

In other exciting news, EM got another freaky note in her mailbox. This one warning her to "be careful, now."

Oh, ugh. Also, yikes. And other inarticulate expressions of "How terrible, and I hope that shit gets taken care of."

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Maybe I'm obtuse, but that seems a morally ambiguous lesson, to me. The only guy that did the right thing was the one that got fucked. Was he just collateral damage of the lesson Art was supposed to learn from his righteous vengence?

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