Signs & portents..?
Anne Pressly, the anchor at the Arkansas TV station KATV who had a cameo as a talking head stand-in for provocative conservative commentator Ann Coulter in Oliver Stone's new movie W.? The one who was savagely beaten during a robbery of her rented home in a trendy section of Little Rock on either Sunday night or early Monday morning (19 Oct. or 20 Oct.), on the heels of the national opening of W.?
She died last night (Saturday, 25 Oct.).
The New York Times reports in today's edition that "Detectives have said they have no evidence that Ms. Pressly had been singled out or stalked." But you have to admit, the timing is pretty effin' extraordinary.
Meanwhile, her employers at KATV have "set up a reward fund through Arvest Bank for anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Anne’s death."
This is a horrible, horrible tragedy; but I hope to hell that it is simply a one-off, that it's not a foretaste of politically-oriented violence yet to come as a result of a -- let's say unusually momentous presidential election, and let it go at that, shall we?
There are nutters and wack-jobs on all sides; and, as much as upheaval, turmoil and civil strife can make for riveting history, I've little desire to live through such events first-hand.
Hopefully her killer or killers will be swiftly caught and punished under the law; and hopefully this terrible event will turn out to be a simple robbery, and not an instance of leftist rage -- or a rightist frame-up.
She died last night (Saturday, 25 Oct.).
The New York Times reports in today's edition that "Detectives have said they have no evidence that Ms. Pressly had been singled out or stalked." But you have to admit, the timing is pretty effin' extraordinary.
Meanwhile, her employers at KATV have "set up a reward fund through Arvest Bank for anyone with information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person or persons responsible for Anne’s death."
This is a horrible, horrible tragedy; but I hope to hell that it is simply a one-off, that it's not a foretaste of politically-oriented violence yet to come as a result of a -- let's say unusually momentous presidential election, and let it go at that, shall we?
There are nutters and wack-jobs on all sides; and, as much as upheaval, turmoil and civil strife can make for riveting history, I've little desire to live through such events first-hand.
Hopefully her killer or killers will be swiftly caught and punished under the law; and hopefully this terrible event will turn out to be a simple robbery, and not an instance of leftist rage -- or a rightist frame-up.