To James Craven:
Many thanks for your exhaustive answer to my query. I now understand
the legal logic connecting and separating the two Simpson trials,
but I still feel a cloying sense of wrongness about it on a deeper level.
Re your later rant on commodification: Here in Milwaukee it seems that
every week the number of rolling billboards in the city bus fleet
is increasing. The transit authority (or whoever it's in hock to)
has been pushing this particular envelope for about 2 years without
arousing any organized opposition, so a full fleet of totally commercial
trompe l'oeil may be in the cards. Since this treatment darkens the
interiors and makes it harder to maintain one's external bearings,
the contempt being shown toward hapless passengers could hardly be
more blatant.
This is my "favorite" example of ever-plunging commodification;
Chris Whittle's attempted coup with Channel One runs a close second.
valis
Occupied America
-- All lies have the same pedigree --
