Wanted:Executioner

What a morbid thought! I assume it is a good thing that I have never seen such an ad, but after thinking at the abuse of the English language last week with the Yanks arguing that 11Sept Bomber Moussawi had "qualified" for execution, I wondered what sort of deviant would qualify to be an executioner? Boy Scout training at tying knots? Heroine addict at finding veins for lethal injections? Sadist and bondage expert? Sensitive new age guy telling the condamne to put on a pair of plastic underpants so he didn't make a mess at the end of the rope? As for the sickos who line up to get a seat at the execution, it ought to be compulsory for the judge and jury and the legislators to watch this gruesome barbarity. As if the world is not sick enough with weirdos, why does the State itself have to be weird as well?
10 years on from the Port Arthur massacre and tragedy, the media now talks about it in superlative terms as "the worst massacre by a single gunman." At the time the media was talking about the worst massacre in Australia's history. I rang Channel 10 and told them to get their facts straight because more Aborigines were massacred out at Myall Creek between Inverell and Bingara - by WHITE settlers. Later, the news changed its story to "Worst massacre in recent history". Apparently the sub -eds have to get a superlative in there for news to count as news.