On Friday I wrote a piece about the Ft. Hood shootings. In it I discussed how we have not in fact lost lives to Islamic terrorists since 9/11 (not on American soil, at least), but we have, sadly, lost large numbers of people to mass killings and shootings carried out by an assortment of psychopaths, sociopaths, and otherwise unbalanced persons since that date, none of whom were motivated by religious extremism.

One of those instances I mentioned was that of the notorious Beltway killers, also called the "D.C. Sniper", a pair who killed 10 people and terrorized many more with their random, stealthy shootings. In a footnote to that post, I see a news report this evening that the mastermind of that duo, John Allen Muhammad, is slated to die by lethal injection tomorrow night, Tuesday November 10. It is unlikely he'll receive any reprieve.

In contrast to so many death row sentences, he is not spending decades awaiting execution, but is being pushed relatively swiftly through our ponderous legal system. (He and his sidekick Lee Boyd Malvo were arrested in 2002).

Wheels grind slowly but exceeding fine, and all that.