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I agree. I'm the "Michael from Tigard" who called in to say that they ought to burn down the web site and start over.

Now that you clued me in, I'm going to try the RSS feed approach. But it's pathetic that their web site is so awful when there are numerous of examples of good web sites that they could look at and clone. And besides, the city is full of talented and currently underemployed web site designers.

I keep wondering what the deal is with the Oregonian and that OregonLive outfit. The Oregonian must've signed over their souls in blood to them.

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I think that retribution can also help keep the rest of victims' lives from being poisoned. I've seen the destructive effects on family members when punishment for a heinous crime is insufficient.

The perpetrator has forfeited any right to something better than his victims' fate. I think that helping the surviving family should take precedence over the welfare of the perpetrator.

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I agree with Ms. Rakha that it's important not to be trapped in anger for the rest of your life. But I don't think the point is forgiveness, I think the point is acceptance. To escape the trap, you have to accept that this bad event has happened in your life. This acceptance hopefully will allow you to move on and be involved with other things.

But to forgive and befriend someone who murdered a loved one? That seems to me both a step too far, and a way to get caught in the mirror image of the trap of anger. I think that the woman Ms. Rakha mentioned, who befriended the murderer of her child, is still trapped in her reaction to that sad event. She's just painting the walls of the trap a different color.

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