Re: [OT] Murder in New York

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:43:28 -0800, Paul S Person wrote:

On Thu, 12 Dec 2024 08:58:15 -0000 (UTC), Charles Packer
<mailbox@cpacker.org> wrote:
 

On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 07:56:54 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
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On 12/11/24 00:53, Charles Packer wrote:

On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 14:12:46 -0800, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
 
 
When that story hit the news I looked forward to the naming of the
suspect. Ah, the allegorical aspects. A very English name murdered by
a very Italian one. Hasn't there been some kind of beef for a while
between the two most ancient institutions of Western civilization?
 
 

Now from what I hear Luigi had a beef because of a
painful pre-existing back condition not because of the old opposition
between Northern and Southern Europe.
 
 
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At least some journalists have gone down an allegorical path with this
story, using the lives of the protagonists rather than vicissitudes of
health care. From the front page of the Washington Post: "As Mangione's
once-charmed life seemed to be crumbling, Brian Thompson's fortunes
appeared to be climbing."

 
Unacceptable as it was, at least this appears to be an ordinary crime,
not an ideological one. For now, anyway.

Yeah, sometimes a crime is just a crime...until a journalist gets hold of
it.