Err...right

* "[Death row] is the calmest place I've ever been in," said convicted murderer Paul John Fitzpatrick in March to a judge in Largo, Fla., hoping to avoid a mere life sentence, which would place him in the general prison population.  "I probably found the most peace I've ever had in my whole life [in his previous experience] on death row," he said.  "It's just a hell of a lot easier . . . doing time with murderers than it is with fools."  (A decision was still pending at press time.)

[St. Petersburg Times, 3-17-07]
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Sticks and stones

 American researchers in West Africa believe they've found the first instance of an animal (other than humans) building a multi-step weapon, after observing wild chimpanzees grab sticks from one to four feet long, sharpen the ends with their teeth, and murderously jab them into deep tree hollows where delicious bush babies may be nesting.  Writing in the journal Current Biology, the team even reported observing the chimps tasting the tips after the stabs, to ascertain whether they had actually located a prey.  (One of the researchers said the ferocity of the jabbing reminded her of the shower scene in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho.)

[Tampa Tribune- Washington Post, 2-23-07]
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This, for some reason reminds me of a Scott Adams quote: "     There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot."