Our Quote of the Day comes from Ohio Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Timothy J. McGinty, commenting on the suicide in his cell by kidnapper Ariel Castro, who had been sentenced to 1,000 years for kidnapping and raping three women, and for murder:
“These degenerate molesters are cowards,” Timothy J. McGinty said. “… This man couldn’t take, for even a month, a small portion of what he had dished out for more than a decade.”
Joe Gandelman is a former fulltime journalist who freelanced in India, Spain, Bangladesh and Cypress writing for publications such as the Christian Science Monitor and Newsweek. He also did radio reports from Madrid for NPR’s All Things Considered. He has worked on two U.S. newspapers and quit the news biz in 1990 to go into entertainment. He also has written for The Week and several online publications, did a column for Cagle Cartoons Syndicate and has appeared on CNN.