The most egregious bit of Martha-bashing to date was Christopher Byron’s

disgraceful piece in Sunday’s New York Post. If you can’t be

bothered to read the whole thing, let me give you the gist of it: “Martha

is a really, really horrid person, so — let’s have a necktie party!”

I do concur with Kathryn, though, that perhaps I should not have compared

her to Gerald Amirault, who didn’t do anything, and wasn’t even rich or

obnoxious. My point was that the essential elements in the two cases –

unscrupulous, ambitious prosecutors, moronic juries, public opinion inflamed

by lies and prejudice — were the same in both cases.