Thursday, March 7

Proof that humans don't evolve and that brutality is alive and well. A woman hit a man with her car, and then......

By Mallard's account, as told to police, she had been drinking and using Ecstasy that October night and was driving home when she struck a man. The impact hurled him headfirst through the windshield, his broken legs protruding onto the hood.


She panicked, she said, and with the man lodged in the windshield, she drove a few miles to her home. There, she parked her 1997 Chevrolet Cavalier in the garage and lowered the door.


Biggs pleaded for help, she told police.


He got none. Not then, or for the next two or three days, as he remained lodged in the windshield, bleeding and slowly going into shock, police said.


Mallard told police she periodically went into the garage to check on the man. She said she apologized profusely to him for what she had done but ignored his cries for help.



Unbelievable.

Good Gary Wills review of that new book on the Jesuits in the NY Review of Books