WTF? WTFF?

I'm apparently really out of it, as I have just learned from an ART email that on the 21st of this month a group of "Christianists" (I like that word) decided to stage a protest of Invincible Summer, a monologue currently running at the theater.

As part of this protest, one of the people involved dumped water over performer Mike Daisey's original show outline - apparently he improvs each night from a set of hand-written pages.

Video of the vandalism:
http://amrep.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/video-of-the-disrupted-performance-of-invincible-summer/

Mike Daisey's blog response:
http://amrep.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=C85I0QGhAAEAAAJuAAEo8w

I'm trying to wrap my brain around this. If the blog comments are true, a group of High Schoolers and teachers/advisers traveled from California and paid money to stage this protest. BUH?

WTF? WTFF?

I'm apparently really out of it, as I have just learned from an ART email that on the 21st of this month a group of "Christianists" (I like that word) decided to stage a protest of Invincible Summer, a monologue currently running at the theater.

As part of this protest, one of the people involved dumped water over performer Mike Daisey's original show outline - apparently he improvs each night from a set of hand-written pages.

Video of the vandalism:
http://amrep.wordpress.com/2007/04/21/video-of-the-disrupted-performance-of-invincible-summer/

Mike Daisey's blog response:
http://amrep.pmailus.com/pmailweb/ct?d=C85I0QGhAAEAAAJuAAEo8w

I'm trying to wrap my brain around this. If the blog comments are true, a group of High Schoolers and teachers/advisers traveled from California and paid money to stage this protest. BUH?

Numbers to chew on

The Innocence Project has secured the exoneration of its 200th person wrongfully convicted of a crime, based on DNA testing. The 200 served about 2,475 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. Story on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/dna.exoneration.ap/index.html

I agree that even one wrongful conviction is too many, and I support the project's goals of systemic reform (required DNA testing, mandatory videotaping of all interrogations). But I'm not satisfied.

What's lacking is a background against which to read these numbers. How many peoples' convictions are confirmed by additional DNA or other testing? What is the percentage of questionable convictions that are overturned in this way. That's a lot of people and a lot of life wasted, but what's the true magnitude of the problem?

Numbers to chew on

The Innocence Project has secured the exoneration of its 200th person wrongfully convicted of a crime, based on DNA testing. The 200 served about 2,475 years in prison for crimes they didn't commit. Story on CNN: http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/23/dna.exoneration.ap/index.html

I agree that even one wrongful conviction is too many, and I support the project's goals of systemic reform (required DNA testing, mandatory videotaping of all interrogations). But I'm not satisfied.

What's lacking is a background against which to read these numbers. How many peoples' convictions are confirmed by additional DNA or other testing? What is the percentage of questionable convictions that are overturned in this way. That's a lot of people and a lot of life wasted, but what's the true magnitude of the problem?