Comments on: Bush Suffers Poisoner To Live — And Pardons Him, To Boot http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/12/01/bush-suffers-poisoner-to-live-and-pardons-him-to-boot/ Wesley R. Elsberry's personal weblog, talking about falconry, science, antievolution, computation, and the broken body he lives in. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 05:13:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Austringer http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/12/01/bush-suffers-poisoner-to-live-and-pardons-him-to-boot/comment-page-1/#comment-279203 Austringer Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:36:17 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/?p=1048#comment-279203 The guy strikes me as a real-life instantiation of Tom Lehrer's hunter in "The Hunting Song". Nope, sorry, the wells of sympathy are not yet opening for me. I keep thinking of the deaths Mr. Collier caused and exactly how each of those animals died, many of them needlessly. Maybe that's getting in the way. The guy strikes me as a real-life instantiation of Tom Lehrer’s hunter in “The Hunting Song”.

Nope, sorry, the wells of sympathy are not yet opening for me. I keep thinking of the deaths Mr. Collier caused and exactly how each of those animals died, many of them needlessly. Maybe that’s getting in the way.

]]> By: Bob O'H http://austringer.net/wp/index.php/2008/12/01/bush-suffers-poisoner-to-live-and-pardons-him-to-boot/comment-page-1/#comment-279113 Bob O'H Mon, 01 Dec 2008 14:18:54 +0000 http://austringer.net/wp/?p=1048#comment-279113 Having read that, I'm a bit more sympathetic towards the guy. His underlying motives were good, even if his execution was bone-headed. I wouldn't have pardoned him, though. I assume the courts took all that into account anyway. Having read that, I’m a bit more sympathetic towards the guy. His underlying motives were good, even if his execution was bone-headed.

I wouldn’t have pardoned him, though. I assume the courts took all that into account anyway.

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