Has it gone this far? Are we now numb to O.J?

14th Nov 2006, 07:36 GMT

''O. J. did it/And you know it,'' poet Imiri Baraka writes in a furious haiku. But in the light of newer, more hideous charges, and contemplating the spectre of Saddam Hussein's impending hanging (to say nothing of his Night-Stalker-like howls of exultation), the question we face now, regarding what remains of O. J.'s actions, is, ''We know it, but who cares?''