In those halcyon days of capital punishment, we'd used to layout a picnic blanket in the town square and kindle someone alight. Roast some pork in the tangy smoke. Bring fire pokers so that the children might examine (mind your-selves!) what would happen to the worst of sinners. At the close of the day, we'd watch a convict make their last stride for heaven in the ascending ashes.
Or maybe it wasn't as romantic as a touchdown in the eleventh hour. The Apollo capsule rounding the moon, and mooning the forces of nature. As a hall of Republicans would have you think in the wild blaze they erupted, some time ago in the era of journalistic irrelevancy. It is unfortunate that 2011 will go down as a another year in a series of millenia where people still get hard and wet, contemplating execution on a herded, emotional basis, although it must be noted it was Allen in 1977 who first made the connection explicit when he suggested to Annie she should take sodium pentothal to slumber through relational duality.
Or maybe it wasn't as romantic as a touchdown in the eleventh hour. The Apollo capsule rounding the moon, and mooning the forces of nature. As a hall of Republicans would have you think in the wild blaze they erupted, some time ago in the era of journalistic irrelevancy. It is unfortunate that 2011 will go down as a another year in a series of millenia where people still get hard and wet, contemplating execution on a herded, emotional basis, although it must be noted it was Allen in 1977 who first made the connection explicit when he suggested to Annie she should take sodium pentothal to slumber through relational duality.
