Folklore?? (was Re: Blankets(M&D spoiler)

[Ted Samsel]

> 
> >Matthew P. Wiener writes:
> 
> Blood is blood, murder is murder, dead is dead.  I do engage in a moral
> calculus, yes, but I try to make it somewhat realistic in terms of actual
> suffering and body counts.  Why, say, no song about the Paxton Boys?

Well, I do believe there are some broadsides about the Paxton Boys
from the 18th c. Which, in my opinion, is a quite "different" critter
from the "folk music scare" of the 1960s.

Ted Samsel....tejas at infi.net