Children, please turn away. I'm here to remind a nation about the specifics of Michael Vick's crimes. This is a man whose Bad Newz Kennels killed dogs by slamming them to the ground, shooting them with a .22-caliber pistol or electrocuting them. Or drowned dogs by shoving their heads into five-gallon buckets of water. Or hanged dogs via a nylon cord attached to two trees. Or approved of "a rape stand,'' used to strap down aggressive female dogs so male dogs could mount them.This was sick and twisted activity, the sort of disturbia that doesn't vanish from the American consciousness simply because Vick served 18 months in prison and the past two months in home confinement. Admittedly, I was very weirded out by the images Monday when Vick's federal dogfighting sentence ended and he became a free man, shedding the electronic monitor worn on his ankle. Not nearly enough time has passed for anyone with a heart, let alone an intense love of dogs, to forgive him for his warped behavior.




