Strongly agreed
Atkins lost her humanity when she murdered Sharon Tate and her unborn child nearly 40 years ago. By a judicial twist of fate, her original death sentence was converted to life imprisonment. In her dying days, Atkins will receive the most compassionate hospice care at taxpayer expense with visitation rights - far better treatment than what she afforded her victims.
Unlike Sharon Tate, Susan Atkins will die with dignity and mercy. When she breathes her last breath, her debt to society will be paid in full, and her remains will be solemnly released to relatives for burial. Tate's family wasn't even afforded such levels of closure back in 1969.
May Charles Manson and his cult partners in crime never see the outside of a prison gate for the rest of their days.
I got off to a late start, but I didn't miss a thing here.
While waiting for the next sessions I signed up for to begin, I walked around the exhibit floor and got to match faces with the weblogs. So far, I pressed the flesh with Glenn Reynolds, Roger L. Simon, Ed Driscoll, Dawn Olsen, La Shawn Barber, Jeralyn Merritt, Pam Johnson, and Markos Moulitsas (no, I didn't get into a political argument with him, as he's here for the sports blogging track - and he was very cordial).
Dawn encouraged me to consider contributing to Blogcritics Magazine, headed up by Eric Olsen. I've been following BC since its inception, and I might consider it. I'll keep you, the reader, posted.
I was quite surprised to run into readers of the blog on the exhibit floor, including another local blogger who's been following me for quite a while.
Update (4:00 pm): Right now, I'm sitting in on "Raising The Level Of Discourse In The Political Blogosphere", featuring panelists Michael Medved, Merritt, Simon, Jim Hoff, and Ed Morrissey.
I might stick around for the pajama party tonight - albeit in street clothes though, as it's a long drive back to Suburblin.