# Truly Bad People, God's Grist Mill May Grind Slow But...

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [July 29, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-bad-people-gods-grist-mill-may-grind-slow-but/458152 "2008-07-29T21:46:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Spavined\_Gelding](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/958977/32.png) [@Spavined\_Gelding](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spavined_Gelding)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-bad-people-gods-grist-mill-may-grind-slow-but/458152/1 "2008-07-29T21:46:13Z")

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Here is an obituary that may persuade you that there are people in the world who are worse than the usual suspects that show up on windbag radio/TV, if only by a matter of degree.

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**Author:** ![Argent\_Towers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/e8c25b/32.png) [@Argent\_Towers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Argent_Towers)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-bad-people-gods-grist-mill-may-grind-slow-but/458152/2 "2008-07-29T21:47:48Z")

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Eh. This guy seems like an upstanding citizen compared to some of the criminals I read about. Not seeing the outrage here.

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**Author:** ![Tenebras](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/977dab/32.png) [@Tenebras](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tenebras)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-bad-people-gods-grist-mill-may-grind-slow-but/458152/3 "2008-07-29T22:20:47Z")

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Wait, Woody Harrelson’s dad was an assassin?

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**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-bad-people-gods-grist-mill-may-grind-slow-but/458152/4 "2008-07-29T22:34:07Z")

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Huh?

Yeah, a bad guy, but you act as if he was Jeffery Dahmer or Charles Manson.

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**Author:** ![Sampiro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/2acd7d/32.png) [@Sampiro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sampiro)\
**Post date:** [July 29, 2008, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-bad-people-gods-grist-mill-may-grind-slow-but/458152/5 "2008-07-29T23:38:08Z")

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[QUOTE=Tenebras]  
Wait, Woody Harrelson’s dad was an assassin?  
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[Yep](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Harrelson). He was also a darling of the JFK conspiracy theorists who believed he was one of the “three hobos”.

Somebody on the board at one point (don’t remember who or if they’re still here) knew Woody Harrelson in college. I asked if he talked about his dad and they said he told people his father was dead. He did pay for attorneys to reevaluate his dad’s conviction, however. (Must have been odd for him playing an assassin in the movie _No Country for Old Men_.)

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**Author:** ![ASAKMOTSD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/919ad9/32.png) [@ASAKMOTSD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ASAKMOTSD)\
**Post date:** [July 30, 2008, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/truly-bad-people-gods-grist-mill-may-grind-slow-but/458152/6 "2008-07-30T01:17:26Z")

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“He was a dropout, no-goodnik and a gambler,” said Gary Cartwright, an editor at Texas Monthly…

He was very, very bad…