[dighton]

. . . the only circuit court judge in South Carolina history to have made love to a condemned murderess as she was being transferred from the women's prison to Death Row.

This was Sue Logue, the only woman in the state ever to be sent to the chair, but not before she'd been sent to the back seat of Strom's car for a lively final ride. (It was a particularly bloody murder case that had begun when Mr. Logue's calf had been kicked to death by some other feller's mule.) I mention this not merely to be salacious and gossipy, but as an example of the extraordinary pageant that is Strom's life. If this were an appreciation of John Kerry, we'd have exhausted all the interesting stuff a couple of paragraphs up and you'd already have flipped to the sports section.

Priceless.

[general_re]

Apparently, someone had alleged that in 1923 Strom had fathered a child by a black woman. It seemed unlikely even Flynt could have video evidence, though perhaps he had an authentic silent movie of the incident with full piano accompaniment and ornately bordered dialogue cards saying things like, ''Why, Mistuh Thurmond suh, what are you doin' here at this hour?''

[Zack Nguyen]

And he's the only circuit court judge in South Carolina history to have made love to a condemned murderess as she was being transferred from the women's prison to Death Row.

Sorry, I know we're supposed to be respectful of an old man, but this is perverted. The very old and the very young get off easy.

I once heard a funny story about ol' Strom from a lady who worked for a Congressman. Thurmond was, of course, on the Armed Services committee, and in a meeting the topic of "nuclear depositories", or disposal sites for nuclear waste, came up. Only Senator Thurmond, a bit confused, kept referring to "nuclear sepositories." LOL.