July 25, 2002
My Fair Trial

I had NPR on this morning, and I wasn't really listening, but somehow a fragment about Sally Struthers and a courthouse got me thinking about the Sacco and Vanzetti trial (okay, so it probably had more to with the courthouse than Sally Struthers). It was six o' clock in the morning - you have to expect a certain amount of free association at that hour.

Maybe it's because they were on the same high school history test, but I can't think about Sacco and Vanzetti without also thinking of Leopold and Loeb. Except that this morning my brain misfired and came up with "Lerner and Loeb". And while I bet a Lerner and Loeb collaboration would be better than the dreck from Andrew Lloyd Webber, I'm still not inspired to buy the soundtrack to The Leopold and Loeb Musical.