The banality of evil...

Christie Blatchford, as usual, had some interesting stuff in her column yesterday on Karla Homolka.

On Easter Sunday, as Ms. Homolka told the court at her husband's trial, she woke up knowing that this was the day Ms. French would die. Why?

Because, as Scott Burnside and Alan Cairns wrote of Ms. Homolka's evidence on this very point in their book about the case, Deadly Innocence, " 'Paul and I had to go to my parents' that evening for Easter dinner,' as though it was the most natural thing in the world to execute a teenage sex toy in order to visit family for a holiday celebration."

She admitted in court that it was she who had effectively determined Ms. French's death day by her insistence upon having the expected dinner with her folks, the same way she went ahead with a Father's day celebration at her house in 1991, even as Leslie Mahaffy's body was lying in the couple's root cellar.

And, of course, she has the chutzpah to claim she was controlled by Bernardo.