Fool Proof Death: Gov. Mitt Romney, in an effort to appear tough for conservative voters, has introduced a bill to restore the death penalty in Massachusetts. He wants to require "conclusive scientfific evidence" for any death penalty. Sounds good, if you like the idea of the state killing people.

What's wrong with killing really bad people? It's still killing people. Some of them no doubt deserve to be killed. Possibly tortured. Maybe raised from the dead and executed again. But I, for one, don't want my government doing this. Maybe you trust your government to do this. I suppose conservatives just have a lot more faith in government than I do. That is, I guess, why conservatives are so strongly in favor of more government involvement in every aspect of their lives. It's that absolute trust they have in their government to always do the fool proof thing.

Massachusetts abolished the death penalty in 1984—1984, a very curious date.

Good News for Division I Colleges: The N.C.A.A. board of directors decided it would be okay for major colleges to expand their schedules from eleven to twelve games per season. That should help these colleges' revenue streams. By the way, who are the stockholders for all of these colleges? They seem to be making tons of money. At one time, American universities were known as the finest in the world, but today they are not producing the engineers, the mathematicians, the scientists that our country needs. It's good to know the football programs are floorishing. By the way, your kid's tuition will go up. Substantially, but he or she will have another football game to see.