I'm satisfied with it and I think it's a fair verdict. Clearly, this was not a first-degree murder case. The state could not prove that Mr. McGee committed premeditated murder against Mr. Graham.

We have a situation ... with the police facing attempted murder and police facing violence which is on a scale that we haven't seen for many years,

He did not recognize himself either. He was a totally new being, bald, covered with grease and blood, pink and blue eyed: he was his own baby...He was a great fat chuckling baby, and he shat and peed in his filthy trousers and kept driving.

Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.

The past is malleable and flexible, changing as our recollection interprets and re-explains what has happened.

Even if one is interested only in one's own society, which is one's prerogative, one can understand that society much better by comparing it with others.