Am I the only one that doesn't get the frenzy over the Peterson case? Of course I understand why the media and the American public chomped on it like it was made of chocolate; what I don't get is how everyone seems to think this is a perfectly acceptable hobby. There are some murder cases that do concern society as a whole because the murder itself is a nexus of social pathologies, or the verdict is a test of the area's social mores.

But the murder of Laci Peterson is a strictly private affair. It's horrific for her family, and no less terrible for the parents and siblings of her husband, who is now her convicted murderer. Yet people are cheering in the streets, serving drinks on the house, and generally acting like morbid, nosy, bloodthirsty freaks. Considering how many people are murdered in this country without so much as a regretful murmur to follow them, it's a fucking disgrace