| Jeff Wattrick at MLive covered the short, tear-stained imprisonment of Monty Burns pretty authoritatively. Here, for instance, a wrap-up of the punditry. And, this one, breaking down the case and Burns' professed love of country after departing the stony lonesome. The thing that's been missing in this sad tale of woe is that Burns not only failed to live up to court-ordered obligations, but this last year managed to stall the construction of a competing span by purchasing himself a chamber of the state Legislature ... specifically the state Senate ... and by convincing the state's teabagger set that in all this he's the real victim of oppressive government. The two go together like hand and fitted glove, and someone somewhere ought devote some energy to pointing out that the Senate Republicans have as a chief patron a man who had to be jailed because he was found guilty of holding a legally binding order of a court in good standing in contempt. |
