Getting Away With Murder

Yesterday a young Florida woman named Casey Anthony was found "not guilty" of the murder of her 2-year-old daughter, proving anew that lawyers are scum and assuring her soon-to-be-a-rock-star defense attorney a 20-year waiting list of clients.

Despite the alarming number of murders daily in America, the bottom-feeding purveyors of infotainment picked up on the potential salaciousness of this particular one early on, and thus the life of an ordinary person became above-the-fold news for the last three years.

I personally remained above the fray until closing arguments on both sides dominated the news in the last few days, sucking me in to the web of lies spun by an obviously demented woman and her whole train-wreck family and involving a decomposing carcass found in a swamp, Internet searches for chloroform, an imaginary nanny, a specific brand of duct tape, a sexually abusive grandpa, a bereaved mom partying til dawn, an alleged accidental drowning....oy vay, you couldn't write stuff like this! And through it all, the accused, who refused to take the stand and proclaim her innocence, sat staring into space while her lawyer said she didn't do nuthin' and the other lawyer said she killed her kid.

Now all we can do is wait for the book, the movie, the made-for-TV biopic, the interviews, the articles, the reality show and the Caylee Anthony action figure toy, which should be out just in time for Christmas.