I agree about making sure that only guilty people are put to death. It’s a tough call. This one didn’t give me any pause at all. I just hate the argument that they are using. So freakin’ petty.

From a purely legal standpoint, the death penalty cannot ever be administered in a way that I can be assured we’re always putting a guilty person to death. There are cases every year where people are found to have been wrongly convicted and that makes me uncomfortable with the process. If the state is going to put people to death, it shouldn’t be putting innocent people to death.

So while I find the whole idea of needle pricks hurting and sterilizing the place where the needle gets inserted to be absurd, the very real issue of how the system is administered and the fact that we’ve got innocent people on death row, makes me not support it.

Not that I don’t find some people absolutely deserving of death. I do. But from the standpoint of a lawyer and someone who believes the state should administer justice, I can’t support it in its current form.

Are you referring to the little rant I put up on Let’s Gab? Grrrrr…. that makes me so mad!! I’d be interested in hearing your legal opinion over there, only if you’re comfortable posting about it.

And Lori, sweetie, I totally agree with you so don’t worry about being political, LOL.

I’m a Suz fan too. I haven’t read her most recent but I’ve been a wee bit busy, LOL.

And is there anybody out there who doesn’t love Suz? And what a nice lady to boot!

Lori, I love your blog! I’m was justing checking it out and I have to say I agree about Suz Brockmann. I love her and no one can do what she does. Didn’t you just love Izzy? I so want his book now lol.

And I couldn’t agree more about Steinbeck. Although perhaps high school students can’t truly appreciate The Grapes of Wrath, which is when we are all required to read it LOL, it is definitely one that brings the depression to life, especially as we lose more and more people who were alive during that time. And Of Mice and Men is just such an amazing book,… I don’t know what else to say about it… and Catch-22 and Heart of Darkness… Sheesh…

You know, all of a sudden I find it very interesting that we are off fighting a war in another country, forcing democracy down the throats of people who, frankly, don’t seem to want it all that much and seem to do better without it, but we can’t or don’t even enforce it in our own country. Here we are, 225 years after our own hard-earned democracy and we are still trying to tell people what they should and shouldn’t read. Hmmm… food for thought… (I do NOT intend for this to be a political debate, just something to chew on)

also, in the case of say, Grapes of Wrath - it’s a pretty sound indictment of class relations in America. Instead of learning, some people just shut down when threatened and they want to shut others up.

Most of the books on the list have very serious themes, like Heart of Darkness and Catch 22 - both books with very strong points of view. There may be curse words in some of them, racial themes, sexual themes - every single DH Lawrence novel on the list was challenged.

Loribelle, yeah no kidding! I’ll be sure to check out Novelty Girls on Thursday!