
Yes, sometimes justice does seem to move in strange ways. Two days after the death of the woman who forty years ago slaughtered his wife and her unborn child, Roman Polanski is arrested in Switzerland on a 31-year-old arrest warrant for raping a thirteen-year-old girl at Jack Nicholson's house. Sure, Polanski's a great artist and he survived the Holocaust and a recent documentary showered him with great sympathy and the victim has given him her forgiveness, but before you start feeling too sorry for the perverted sonofabitch, take a stroll over to the Smoking Gun website and read the grand jury testimony from the victim.

He's lived pretty nicely since he fled to Paris all those years ago.

He's lived pretty nicely since he fled to Paris all those years ago.