Please people, enough.

If all of the media coverage and emotional energy that has been focused on this crime was devoted to improving and expanding the options for women who are victims of domestic abuse we could have made a far greater impact than appeasing a useless and lazy tabloid appetite.

Here’s a brain exercise for you. If OJ wasn’t a celebrity would anyone outside of their families and friends have given a crap about the victims or the crime? Since there was and is such racial aspect to the whole thing, imagine that Nicole Simpson was black and Ron Goldman was Asian or Mexican, would it have been so loud and pervasive a spectacle? Would it have been such a seminal moment in US history? Would white people have been so outraged by OJ’s acquittal? Would black people have felt so vindicated by OJ’s acquittal? Crying outside of the courtroom? Please. Cheering in church? Please.

I know some other things he “Did”. He showed us the disheartening grip celebrity has on the American mind and that the violent actions of a pathetic, psychotic moron can expose a nation’s myopic and simplistic racial perspective.

who was killed and the person who did the murders (or, at least, the person YOU believed did the murders), would 12 years be enough?

You should read what I wrote more carefully. I said...

"...would anyone outside of their families and friends have given a crap about the victims or the crime?"

Who I believe did or didn't do the murders doesn't matter. What anyone other than the people directly involved or effected by the murders thinks about the murders doesn't matter.

Dare I mention the "M" word - Mythology. OJ is and was a mythological figure and the murders were a mythological act. Afterall we are living in the Roman Empire Part II.