[Billthedrill]

Intense stuff from Ambrose Bierce, a gentleman whose prose is very definitely an acquired taste. I cannot imagine what Saddam might have wished for before the bottom dropped out but if it were the tenderness of love and home it would have to be tempered by the knowledge that he was being hanged for having denied those to so very many Iraqis. It is hard to imagine a man with so much blood on his hands having much of a human spark left in him.

He's dead now and well so in my opinion. If his hanging makes Kim and Mugabe and Chavez sleep just a little less soundly that's just fine by me.

[Brucifer]

Bitter Bierce. Spent his formative years in the Civil War, and as an old man headed south into the Mexican Revolution. They've lost track of the towns in Mexico that claim to be the place he was killed. "The Old Gringo" with Gregory Peck was based on his time in Mexico. Nobody really knows what happened to him. Well, not the last that I heard. Maybe some freeper knows.