The biggest ovation of the night.

We Americans are a macabre lot. We cheer a politician for executing 234 prisoners while he was governor of Texas. We cheer him because he did it without any qualms of conscience. He claims that there wasn't ever a single innocent man executed in Texas. And if there was, so be it. It's a lesson that one isn't supposed to mess with Texas. Or with Rick Perry, the leading contender for the Republican nomination for president of the USA. Disgusting, isn't it? Maybe if Perry and his Republican cronies and cheering execution backers come to full power, we Americans will have the opportunity to watch executions. On TV. Or in person. So we can learn the lesson for ourselves, don't mess with conservative, blood-thirsty Republicans. They don't wanna see a fetus killed. Under any circumstances. But if you are deemed a bad guy or gal -- well, that's a different story. Many in the Perry crowd also believe in torture. In excruciating death. Some of 'em think that death by lethal injection is too merciful. They want death to be slow and agonizing. Gives them great satisfaction to know that the dearly departed suffered. Let me tell you. This is a sick society. When at a debate of presidential aspirants, the audience cheers the notion of executions. Gleefully. Enthusiastically. It draws the biggest ovation of the night. --Jim Broede