There Are, I Believe, Many More False

Because Crime Stories Reveal An Aspect Of Our Personality That Everybody Has, But Which We Normally Keep Very Deeply Hidden. We Like To Talk About The Good Sides Of Ourselves. We Don't Like To Talk About Our Hatreds, Our Distrusts Of One Another, Our Secrets, But Crime Stories Drag Those Things To The Surface And Consequently They Fascinate People And Always Have Throughout All History.

Famous Crime Stories Almost Always Lead To The Passing Of New Laws. There's A Great Many Intersections Between This Unseemly Tabloid Phenomena And Serious Social Issues And We Never Get To That Intersection Because Serious People Don't Like To Talk About That Unattractive Stuff.

On The Other Hand, If You Suggest To A Person Who Has Been A Victim Of A Serious Crime That We Take The Issue Too Seriously, They'll Look At You Like You're Crazy. So That's A Really Tough Issue, Whether We're Doing More Harm Than Good By Paying So Much Attention To A Few Cases That Honestly Don't Normally Intersect With Our Lives.

When People Disagree With You, What You Ultimately Have To Do Is Persuade People To Agree With You - Period.

Let's Try To Find Ten Good Things To Say About Albert Belle: 10. So Far As We Know, He's Never Killed Anyone. 9. He Is Handsome, And Built Like A God. 8. He Played Every Game. 7. He Has Never Appeared On The Jerry Springer Show. 6. He Was An Underrated Base Runner Who Was Rarely Caught Stealing. 5. He Hasn't Been Arrested In Several Years. 4. He Is Very Bright. 3. He Works Hard. 2. He Has Never Spoken Favorably About Adolf Hitler, Saddam Hussein, Or Any Other Foreign Madman. 1. The Man Could Hit.