I decided to ask Morris if he’s been following the case of Cameron Todd Willingham (he has) and what it says about our justice system. He said:

My view is that the death penalty encourages mistakes. It’s not just ‘mistakes can happen.’ It engenders them. And Texas, as we all know, has been enthusiastic about the death penalty. Not just in passing new legislation, but in the number of capital murder cases and convictions and death warrants and just in the number of executions.

And he raised an interesting line of argument. To crudely paraphrase it, these capital cases involve horrific tragedies for which the community demands some justice (e.g., a dead cop, or three dead little girls). And because of that, investigators go to extraordinary lengths to find someone that they can punish. Morris’ words again:

If there’s a choice between no case and a case, unfortunately it becomes very easy for the human mind to find justifications for making one decision, one preferred decision, rather than another.

I thought the movie was great. What I’ve found really funny about it is everybody who says, “Oh, it’s funny, not serious like the book.” Apparently, people don’t need to read the book to comment.

Every scene in the movie was in the book. Probably 80 percent of the dialogue is in the book. Everything that makes the movie funny makes the book funny. Sure, the book had a lot of other things going on, but the choice of style was dictated by the story.

So, that said…great movie. I was shocked at how much it was like the book.

Drew showed up 1 hour late, spent 1 hour with press, a few minutes with
contest winners and then the rest of us, who had wristbands and [had] been
standing for 5 hours in the rain, were told they’re running behind and we
can leave now. She didn’t sign any autographs for us! So, thank you Moroch
Entertainment and Fox Searchlight and thanks Drew, for having my wife, me
and my 3 year old stand in the rain for 5 hours. We now know what you think
of your fans.

str8edgeracer T shirts online! Cougarmerch.com

Wilson has been tweeting for some time now about his intentions to publicly distribute “Wolfpack” t-shirts he designed — based on his nickname for the Ranger’s bullpen that was inspired by a hilarious speech from the movie The Hangover. (If you’re confused watch the movie clip and read the Star-T post)

Wilson confirmed, also via Twitter, that all proceeds from the t-shirt sales will go to a C.J. Wilson’s Children’s Charities project:

str8edgeracer@J_Hix we’re donating the current $ to the charity event, a new youth sports medicine center in plano, past events have been hospitals, etc

So, if you’re a Rangers fan, you got that going for ya. Which is nice.

Lesson: as always, I am clueless.