So, the Supreme Court just negged any chance of themselves ever re-trying the case of (most likely) cop-killing hearthrob (definitely) activist Mumia Abu-Jamal (pictured here modeling American Apparel’s latest line of vintage-inspired eyewear). Which is good news if, like us, you’d just like both sides of MumiaWorld® to just shut the fuck up already, whether they’re on the crunchy “Free Mumia” side, which reminds us of half of what we hate about being white, or the Maureen Faulkner/Michael Smerconish Beef-N-Beer side, which reminds us of the other half of what we hate about being white. But let’s not get too psyched; just because a high court deferred to the case’s original judgment, that doesn’t mean that The Mumia Industry — that ragtag softbatch of publishers, pundits and so on — won’t persist. Because oh, it definitely will. And there’s two main reasons for that: For one, there’s still the fight to get Mumia a new sentencing hearing, with an eye towards either getting him executed or freed with time served — and the Supreme Court has not commented on that matter yet. But eventually, they’ll have to, and that brings us to the second part: The sentencing issue will gear up a whole new round of books, TV specials, pundit slots on cable news and so on, and there’s just too damn much money to be made to get anyone to shut the hell up about Mumia any time soon. Sigh. World = Vampire.

This entry was posted on Monday, April 6th, 2009 at 2:55 pm.