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I had a thought while watching O Brother Where Art Thou?. It was about executions. I don't usually daydream about such horrific things, but sometimes I do. Anyways, O Brother takes place in a time when many executions were public. Not only were official executions public much of the time, there were often lynch mobs and other sorts of groups who would execute people in public. I wonder, if there was a public execution these days, on the 5Cs for example, if anyone would watch it. Would it matter who the person was? If the execution was perceived by most people as justified. I started thinking about all this because of Saddam Hussein. He is supposed to be executed in January or February or something like that next year. I wonder what kind of media coverage the event is going to get in Iraq. For that matter, I wonder what kind of media they have in Iraq. Does the average man, fresh home from work, turn on the news? What other media outlets are going to be covering this execution? And who is going to watch it? I wonder to myself, would I watch it if I could? Death is horrible but it's also very natural, and even though it sounds really awful to say you want to see death happen, if it was someone who (for lack of a better expression) had it coming, like Saddam Hussein, would that make it easier to watch? I guess the question I'm posing to the non-existent readership of this blog is, if you could witness Saddam Hussein's hanging, would you?