Re-Opening an Old Topic...

Anna Gregoline | January 16, 2007
Anyone have any comments on the O.J. Simpson book-not-a-book-now-we-know-anyway thing? I tried to find the old discussion but I'm not having much luck.

Here ya go

Anna Gregoline | January 17, 2007
I guess not. Oh well. This place is really dead, huh?

Aaron Shurtleff | January 18, 2007
Well, what do we really know? While everyone has decided that this is essentially a confession, we don't know anything definate. The account given is remarkably close to what the prosecution in the case thought might have happened (with one exception that I will discuss momentarily), so we know nothing there. In OJ's book, he discusses a "Charlie" who assisted him, but we don't know if that's an admission that there was a helper, or just OJ making stuff up, or even OJ covering his tracks (by adding something in to throw suspicion off himself).

Really, all we know is that OJ is creepy and makes bad decisions. Honestly, I think I knew that before the book-not-book stuff started!

Amy Austin | January 18, 2007
Yeah, I thought it especially funny that he would be concerned about his kids reading the graphically violent details of Nicole's near beheading... but, ehh, a book about the general "hypothetical" way their father might have murdered their mother... that's okay. "Creepy" just seems insufficient on that note.

Anna Gregoline | January 18, 2007
Alright, sorry.

Amy Austin | January 19, 2007
What are you apologizing for, Anna???

Scott Hardie | January 22, 2007
Sorry, Anna. I'm done talking about OJ after a few months ago. (link) My opinion is unpopular and unpleasant to discuss, and I regret opening my big mouth. I'm tempted to comment more if OJ clearly confesses, but at that point I'll regret it even more, so who knows.

Aaron and Amy, good points.

Anna Gregoline | January 23, 2007
Shrug - people aren't interested, I get it. Kind of stupid of me to try and start a topic on here anyway, I'm too rusty.