03/25/02
The Husband Did It
Almost every talk-radio caller and letter-to-the-editor writer whom I have heard call for Russell Yates to bear some legal responsibility for the deaths of his children has really been implying that it was mostly his fault. One even went so far, after a long list of horrible — Satanesque — things that he had done, as to state that “Andrea struck back at him the only way that she knew how: by killing his kids.”
This essay has been published in Just Thinking: Volume I, 10/29/01–10/21/02 and is available in Confidence Place: The Timshel Arts Store.
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03/11/02 A Ramble (Life)
03/04/02 Confidence in the Arts (Art)
02/25/02 Balance and Capitalists’ Sporsmanship (Society)
02/18/02 Better than Varsity: Will Adversity Ensure Diversity at the University? (Society)
02/11/02 Choice Means Considering Benefits and Costs (Abortion)
02/04/02 Parenthood: Making the World a Better Place (Family)
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