Saddam Hussein… dead… dictator… rape rooms… blah, blah, there’s nothing I’m going to say that isn’t going to be all over 10,000 political blogs in the next 24 hours.

One interesting side note, however — while listening to a conservative talk-radio show last night opining about the possibility of Hussein’s hanging being videotaped and distributed, one caller said he would love to take his kids to a public execution, so they could learn first hand the consequences of crime. The host said something akin to, “Good for you, sir,” and proceeded to belittle the next caller who dared to say that it might be “inappropriate” for children to witness someone being killed.

Now, I do disagree with some of my Libertarian brethren on the subject of capital punishment — and if someone deserved to be put in the ground it was certainly Saddam Hussein — but this viewpoint that pay-per-view hangings would be good for children is bat shit crazy. I don’t even need to tell any of you that kids raised in even a semi-stable family would intuitively know that murder is wrong. Do they really need to be “scared straight”?

Unless, however, Saddam had been put to death by V-Chip/Satan, then perhaps I would plunk down the $19.95 and have everyone gather ’round with a big bowl of popcorn (naughty language alert):

And, by the way, those of you bloggers reporting that “Saddam was hung”? You may wish to read that back aloud and consider a possible edit….

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