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Am I surprised that Paris Hilton spent more time in jail than will Scooter Libby?
Pardon me?
Pardon me?
posted by greg rappleye at 7:10 AM
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
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- Name: greg rappleye
- Location: Grand Haven, Michigan, United States
I am a writer who lives and works in West Michigan. I am a graduate of Albion College, the University of Michigan Law School, and the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. I have published three full-length collections of poetry: Holding Down the Earth (Sky Books, 1995), A Path Between Houses (University of Wisconsin Press, 2000) which won the Brittingham Prize, and Figured Dark (University of Arkansas Press, 2007), which won the University of Arkansas Press Poetry Series. I have also published three chapbooks: Eros, Psyche and the Death of Narrative (Candle Creek Press, 2006), The Afterlight (WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2006), and The Divisible Field ( WVU-Legal Studies Forum, 2008), and have completed a fourth manuscript, Tropical Landscape with Ten Hummingbirds. I am working on a novel. My work has received a Pushcart Prize, the Mississippi Review Prize, the Paumanok Poetry Prize, the Greensboro Review Literary Award in Poetry, and the Arts & Letters Prize. I was a Bread Loaf Fellow in 2002. When not writing, I work full-time as corporation counsel for a local government and also teach part-time in the English Department at Hope College in Holland, Michigan.
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4 Comments:
You shouldn't be. I can actually tell you what Paris Hilton did...but Libby: I have no idea. I suspect very few others do either.
My friend John Coyne at peacecorpswriters.org suggests we all call the White House to leave a comment. It's 202-456-1111 between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. But when have any of these scoundrels ever cared what we think?
Answers:
1. No, I am not surprised.
2. Scooter Libby was convicted of felony perjury in a case with national security implications.
3. I wasn't closely following Paris Hilton's legal situation, but understand that she had been convicted of driving while her license was suspended and/or of driving in violation of some license restrictions.
4. No, I suspect they don't much care what we think.
I'd be doing time if I did either crime.
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