As Libyan Abdelbaset Ali Mohmed Al Megrahi is released from jail for his part in the Pan Am 103 bombing over Lockerbie I wonder whether his impending death from prostate cancer will be the final part of the tragedy?
The justice system tells us that Al Megrahi was responsible for the deaths of 243 passengers and 16 crew on the ill-fated flight.
"America was never innocent. We popped our cherry on the boat over and looked back with no regrets. You can't ascribe our fall from grace to any single event or set of circumstances. You can't lose what you lacked at conception.
"Mass-market nostalgia gets you hopped up for a past that never existed. Hagiography sanctifies shuck-and-jive politicians and reinvents their expedient gestures as moments of great moral weight. Our continuing narrative line is blurred past truth and hindsight. Only a reckless verisimilitude can set that line straight."
--James Ellroy, American Tabloid
Ensure a Free and Fair Election (Ban Paperless Voting Machines
"The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words."