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Sunday evening: A good weekend . . .
May. 18th, 2008 08:31 pm1. Welcome to ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jafinnola, who appears to be a kindred soul, as well as fuzzface00, who has already checked in with a snarky remark, and art_in_theory, who will be moving to the East Kingdom and appears to be pretty cool.
2. Covered a Women's Premier Soccer League yesterday. This is the highest level of competition (other than the national teams), until Women's Professional Soccer starts up again next year.
Good match, but no crowd. It was at a fairly new lacrosse/soccer complex in a gorgeous setting on the edge of the Adirondacks in Fort Ann, N.Y.
The story is here.
3. I just cannot believe people can be this evil:
From the Albany Times Union
ALBANY -- An unremorseful Cohoes man who battered his girlfriend repeatedly with a pipe -- then ordered a pizza and drank beer as she lay near death last summer -- was blasted as an "animal" today as a judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
"(Bleep) her. She had it coming," Peter Capone, 41, told Judge Stephen Herrick, as his victim sat in the courtroom gallery crying, her hands pulling the sides of her hair.
Capone broke both his girlfriend's arms during the July 25 beating, which caused his girlfriend to be hospitalized in intensive care for eight days.
"It is by the grace of God that I am alive today able to sit here and write this and function as well as I am," the victim wrote in a letter read in Albany County Court by Assistant District Attorney David Rossi.
Asked if he wished to speak, the rotund Capone said, "No. I'm good."
Herrick immediately interjected, "No, you're not good Mr. Capone. In all the years involved with criminal justice, I have never seen anything like this."
Before sending Capone off, he added, "You are a dangerous animal and you need to be confined."
Capone pleaded guilty in March to first-degree assault.
When previously told his victim suffered life-threatening injuries, Capone replied, "Good."
4. If you, like me, are really interested in the 2008 Olympics, the New York Times' Rings blog and its Olympics 2008 are well-worth the time.
jafinnola, who appears to be a kindred soul, as well as fuzzface00, who has already checked in with a snarky remark, and art_in_theory, who will be moving to the East Kingdom and appears to be pretty cool.2. Covered a Women's Premier Soccer League yesterday. This is the highest level of competition (other than the national teams), until Women's Professional Soccer starts up again next year.
Good match, but no crowd. It was at a fairly new lacrosse/soccer complex in a gorgeous setting on the edge of the Adirondacks in Fort Ann, N.Y.
The story is here.
3. I just cannot believe people can be this evil:
From the Albany Times Union
ALBANY -- An unremorseful Cohoes man who battered his girlfriend repeatedly with a pipe -- then ordered a pizza and drank beer as she lay near death last summer -- was blasted as an "animal" today as a judge sentenced him to 20 years in prison.
"(Bleep) her. She had it coming," Peter Capone, 41, told Judge Stephen Herrick, as his victim sat in the courtroom gallery crying, her hands pulling the sides of her hair.
Capone broke both his girlfriend's arms during the July 25 beating, which caused his girlfriend to be hospitalized in intensive care for eight days.
"It is by the grace of God that I am alive today able to sit here and write this and function as well as I am," the victim wrote in a letter read in Albany County Court by Assistant District Attorney David Rossi.
Asked if he wished to speak, the rotund Capone said, "No. I'm good."
Herrick immediately interjected, "No, you're not good Mr. Capone. In all the years involved with criminal justice, I have never seen anything like this."
Before sending Capone off, he added, "You are a dangerous animal and you need to be confined."
Capone pleaded guilty in March to first-degree assault.
When previously told his victim suffered life-threatening injuries, Capone replied, "Good."
4. If you, like me, are really interested in the 2008 Olympics, the New York Times' Rings blog and its Olympics 2008 are well-worth the time.
