Dull Outrage

For a year and a half we like many of our readers wondered about the motive behind the brutal killing of Micaela Costanzo.

Watching Kody Patten Friday address the court and Mickie’s family we finally figured it out.

Kody Patten and Toni Fratto brutally murdered Mickie Costanzo because they could.

It wasn’t jealously or rage or even as one of our bloggers suggested Satan worship, it was simply the two murderers were perfect halves of an evil whole. Their separate selves fed off of and encouraged each other to commit the most terrible crime we have ever reported and that most of us never thought possible here.

They proved it was possible and in the slow stupid way they explained it with a shrug of their shoulders, a few tears and two “ I dun no’s”.

Evil is boring as it is banal and because it is and they are so dull, the sin they committed is so outrageous.

It is right to feel outrage and it is right to demand justice and it is right that Fratto and Patten suffer the rest of their lives.

Maybe they might feel a twinge of guilt now and again.

But frankly we could care less.

It is disheartening to see the dearth of Democrats on the ballot again this time around.

The abandonment of the rural Nevada by the party the used to represent farmers, ranchers, coal miners and railroad workers is sad and also frightening.

While most of the votes are in the cities, we in fly over country are part of this country too.

And how can a party govern when it does not even have a presence in whole swaths of this country?

The last three and a half years have provided an answer.

It can govern but it can’t govern well.