A penny will hide the biggest star in the Universe if you hold it close enough to your eye. Samuel Grafton, liberal newspaper columnist andauthor of the syndicated column I'd Rather Be Right was a wise man, bless his soul.
He could have written the above sentence about the hullaballoo surrounding the recent attack on a young lady, some days ago, as reported in this newspaper: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120122/local/Thugs-attack-lesbian-16-on-a-bench.403284 .
I gave up reading the comments after the first clutch – and I think I am safe to assume that the rest of them harped on the same issue – that "Amy is a lesbian and she was beaten up because of that".
Alas, we are missing the wood for trees. Before this simplistic Q.E.D., there are several other factors to consider.
The attack happened at 7.30 p.m. – a time when the area is teeming with people. Is it possible that not one of the layabouts always watching the world go by from the square and its peripheral areas, including a couple of bars, or all the people who happened to be passing by, did not deign to run to the Hamrun police ...
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