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Wow. Tookie.
Unbelievable. The polar opposite opinions on what Tookie Williams achieved (or what he inflicted) in his lifetime raging on in the media is astounding. Lots of hatred still being spewed for and opposed. I don't support the death penalty, but I certainly don't think he was Nobel Peace Prize material, either.
I AM surprised that Antioch College in Yellow Springs didn't have him as a Commencement speaker, though.
If a person does something really bad, like start a gang that murders/rapes/robs, etc., and then, while in prison for the murder of four people ('course, he didn't DO it!), finds Jesus and writes some children's books about "don't do what I did"--does this redeem him? Does this make it all better?
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In Barrie's play and novel, the roles of fairies are brief: they are allies to the Lost Boys, the source of fairy dust and ...They are portrayed as dangerous, whimsical and extremely clever but quite hedonistic.
"Shall I give you a kiss?" Peter asked and, jerking an acorn button off his coat, solemnly presented it to her.
—James Barrie
Wimminfolk they be tricksy. - ZenGum
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