The Nose: Gearing Up For The Rapture & (More) Men Behaving Badly
The world might be ending, but political scandal hasn't slowed a bit.
Published: May 20, 2011
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The Nose: Gearing Up For The Rapture & (More) Men Behaving Badly
One of our cops and robbers traditions -- as static as Kabuki -- is the perp walk.
The idea of marching an arrested suspect across a line of flashing cameras is probably about 100 years old. One theory says it may have started when there was a camera with a fast enough shutter. By the 1920s, J. Edgar Hoover was using perp walks to gin up enthusiasm for his crime wars.
Of course, they don't always go that well. Lee Harvey Oswald was killed during a perp walk, and in 1962, when photographers missed the first photo op, New York City cops re-staged a perp walk and posed the suspect for them.
Most of us kind of like perp walks and look forward to them, but they seem out of communion with our notion of justice. Why should a defendant, still presumed innocent until convicted, have to go through this pageant?
That and more about the DSK story, the Schwarzeneggers and the End of the World on today's show.
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E-mail from Pete (On Arnold & Maria)
How could you have this conversation without anyone mentioning JFK. I think he was both a philanderer and her uncle.
E-mail from Sara
I find it refreshing to remember that yes, while tomorrow begins the Zombies apocalypse as thousands of corpses wake up and pull themselves out of their graves, we still have like 5 months before the actual rapture. My goal is to take those five months to find Jesus who will also be walking around. I'm a little concerned, however, since in my 37 years I haven't found Jesus yet but I'm a terrible procrastinator. I work best under pressure so I'm not too worried. I wrote the thesis for my Master's in one night so I'm not too worried about the end of days.
MOST IMPORTANTLY....MACHO MAN RANDY SAVAGE has died. I just saw that on the MSN homepage as I went to turn on my computer. I'm not sure we can face all those zombies without Macho Man.
E-mail from Elieen
NYT cover story early this week about the commission looking into the clergy sex/pedophilia scandal finding that the "culture of the 60's" is to blame for the child abuse perpetrated by priests. And I haven't heard anyone anywhere talking about it. Is it just so ludicrous and mockable that no one wants to touch it?
E-mail from GW
I think it says in the bible that we will NOT know when IT will come"....not sure of the verse
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