What's Next? Saintood?

Washington, D.C. is a strange town. As the self-declared capital of the so-called free world, it is as political as you can get. It is also, locally a very violent town, despite having more police per capita than any other city in the world. And then there is the almost rabid fanaticism over the local football team, the Washington Redskins.

From June through the playoffs, every move, every play every event that even tangentially touches the team is "news." So it is not surprising that the death of a player on the team would dominate the news, but things are getting out of hand. I have previously discussed the new trend in the United States for mass mourning, but at the speed things are going in DC, it has been taken to a completely new level. Now, he might have been a good player. He might even have become a great player. He left behind a girlfriend and a daughter. And?

Exactly. And? There have been double digit murders in the District of Columbia. Each one of them has left loved ones behind. Most of them are unsolved. Every single day there is a murder in the United States, yet because these people are not "in the spotlight" they are forgotten, except by those left behind.