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She did it even if she didn't.

She was for doing it before she was against doing it.

Nice post.

dumb fucks. Mother Mary refers to Paul's mother not 'the' Mary.

The song was inspired by McCartney's mother, Mary McCartney, after he dreamt about her saying the words, "Let It Be".

Good post, Charles. Overall I've really enjoyed your coverage of this case.

I suppose I'm curious as to why you've taken this on so passionately. Is it that she's a university student, and you teach university students at PLU? Is it that she originally--and wrongly--accused a fellow African man of the act? Shed some light on yourself for us, if it's not too personal.

what draws me to this subject is its global nature. all that is global is of great interest to me.

The people who do things are usually the ones you think won't do them.

But ... she could easily be innocent.

I savored your Amanda Knox article at Bauhaus on Saturday morning, just as I'd planned.

That poor Amanda. If only she hadn't got mixed up in the wrong crowd, been shacking up, having sex out of wedlock, and experimenting in perverse sex.

So, a young black man is just as violent in Italy as a young black man is in the US? Is Charles asserting that it is racist to suppose that the culprit is of African descent? Why? They do tend to be.

And no, I am not maligning ALL black people, so call the dogs off, Stranger censors...

You know where else criminals tend to be of African descent? Africa!

It would be funnier if she sang "Run For Your Life" instead.

Or what if she suddenly started "singing" Daft Punk?

Now that would be cool ...

I've worked with her mother for eight years, and her mother's the same damn way - they're bubbly happy morning people, who SING and CHIRP at you first thing in the morning. It's awful and there oughta be a law.

#4 beat me to it.

What #1 said. Plus, she's got that special NW flavor of nutballs, the type that does it, whatever it is.

Does anyone else think Amanda is going to go for an insanity defense?

did anyone see the overly biased 20/20 report that completely (whoops) forgot to mention amanda knox's anti-semetic strak, her journal of incest, rape and murder and made her out to be a saint living abroad?

bitch please, everone knows as soon as people go to another country, they turn into huge partying sluts. except the mormons.

oh, and the lack of respect by knox's parents towards the girl amanda knox murdered.

out-fucking-standing model shitizens.

I'm really beginning to appreciate Mr. Mudede's readings. He scratches at the facts and lets the pus drip on to the page.

Robert Orsi writes about Marianism and Catholic saints worship as "stories that can't be told without blood." He talks of "companionship on a bitter journey" in which "meaning making begins in wounding." Instrumental suffering dissolves the distance between the devoted and god.

Mary is the mother who saw her son nailed to a cross, she's a victim for all sinners and a sacrificed virgin. "By imagining Mary's history with the emotional discernment born of their own experience, her devout understood and affirmed that Mary recognized the anxiety, loss, and PROMISE of what was happening to them." - Robert Orsi.

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"The image on the wall is inevitably viewed through the lens of the image within."

I'm just amazed that they asked Doug Preston for his opinion. Have they even read his books? I wouldn't trust the man to investigate a dirty diaper without help.
He writes pretty good fiction though.

That PI blogger (Candace Dempsey) who interviewed Preston has gone from asking the question "How does this story affect Seattle?" to rabidly proclaiming Knox's innocence as if she were on the Knox family payroll.

She has utterly run the full spectrum of inanity.