Catharine C. Mayo.  That woman is almost as absurd as Cindy Sheehan, the wombat from my beloved hometown of Vacaville, CA.

As if it's not bad enough to not be allowed to bring hand cream or chapstick on flights with us.  Shouldn't TSA realize that disconnecting us from our beloved luxuries of bottled water and shiny lips can cause people with "emotional issues" to go insane?  Take away my bottled water and you had better hand me a new one as soon as I set foot on that flying machine.  Take away my chapstick and you had better set up a partnership with Bonne Bell or Burt's Bees to provide small samples for those of us with super dry lips.  These extra security precautions are going to make the already bankrupt airliners go out of business. 

As far as Catharine C. Mayo is concerned...she works for a Pakistani newspaper?

If you aren't subscribed to James Taranto's "Best of the Web Today" (Wall Street Journal), you probably should be.  That's where I get a lot of my "stunning" news.  He does the research...I react.

But seriously, this woman, she's absolutely insane.  The peice of one of her articles that Taranto provided in today's "Best of the Web" is as follows:  

        I think the US people have forgotten that President Bush didn't win the election. He only got 
        the job because they couldn't decide what to do with pregnant chads in Florida. . . . When 
        President Bush announced that God was telling him to bomb Iraq, my stomach turned over. 
        He has no right to include God in his State of the Union address. It is forbidden by law; the 
        church and state are completely separate in the United States. No politically elected person 
        can use religion for his own ends. 

        The government of the US has changed in the last few months, and the citizens of the 
        country haven't noticed yet. It has become an oligarchy. Its leaders rule with a wave of their 
        hands, laughing into their sleeves. They can create any truth they want, and then create 
        proof that it is real. They are accountable to no one. ...

        The people of the US don't have power anymore. That's what the Muslim world needs to 
        understand. When President Bush says that he is God, the ordinary people go out and shovel 
        the snow out of their driveways. There is nothing else they can do.
        (http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/print.asp?page=2003%5C02%5C25%5Cstory_25-2-2003_pg3_7)

It just shows how absurd she is.  She talks about our laws as if she lived here!!  SHE'S FROM PAKISTAN!!  Don't talk about our laws like you know them when any American citizen (righty or lefty or centreville) can read your nonsense and know that you're completely uneducated when it comes to our laws.

Even if you didn't really do it.  Perhaps John Mark Karr really did kill JonBenet.  Or perhaps the MSM is somehow managing to brainwash my ever resistant conscience into thinking he's a big fat liar.  With all the articles Drudge is posting about Karr and all the contradictory information, I can't help but think he's a big fat liar.  (He says he drugged her but the autopsy said there were no drugs?)  Nothing adds up to make me believe this guy is honest.

But why would he lie about something like that?  And what would be his punishment for lying about this whole thing?  And why did he wait so long to announce his guilt?  Or why did he let on that he had a part in her death?  Will his punishment be as severe as it would have been 10 years ago...that is...considering my perceptions are wrong and the fool is guilty (he's a fool whether he's guilty or not).

I'm looking forward to hearing the results of the DNA test to prove my suspicions wrong.  I feel horrible for her family.  The whole situation is, of course, something they'll probably never get over...but the fact that it's being brought up again and stirring old emotions.  What a bittersweet form of relief it will be for the family if Karr really is as guilty he says he is.

I don't understand people these days...or ever in the past really either.