[Irish Rose]

This is quite a story; I hadn't heard it before. I haven't been following the Brian Nichols story closely, so I don't know how widely it's been reported.

[sailor4321]

A wonderful column. However, it is clear Ms. Noonan either has not read or has forgotten Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find"...

[beckett]

...so I don't know how widely it's been reported.

Very widely. The same transcript Noonan reproduced was posted all around the net, including here on FR, on the day the drama ended.

Ex-Hostage: "I Wanted to Gain His Trust"

[b9]

You will love this.

[Luddite Patent Counsel]

What a pantload. "Something changed. Something happened." Yeah, someone took another photograph from a different angle, in different light, with a different expression on the subject. You can see plenty of examples of this phenomenon in the supermarket checkout aisle. When one of the tabs wants to push a good story, the subject photo looks angelic or attractive, depending on the story angle. If they want to sell a negative story, the cover shot looks like the devil or death warmed over. One of the major weeklies, either Time or Newsweek did the same thing when they "overdarkened" O.J. Simpson's mug shot after his arrest.

No one will ever know what actually happened with Nichols and Smith, but to conjur up such drama queen crap out of a couple of photos is hysterical nonsense. I thought real conservatives eschewed such touchy-feely psychobabble.

[goldstategop]

It calls to mind the song, "Tis Amazing Grace." We live in a country in which some people seek to do good even in the unlikeliest of circumstances. We should seek worth in every one and even persuade the wicked to desist from their ways. The presence of God is everywhere.

(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)

[Malesherbes]

Fulton County is not Flannery O'Connor country.