On a Saturday in the ski-resort town of Lillehammer, Norway a young waiter and his wife — she was pregnant with their first child — came out of a movie theater a little before 11 pm and caught a bus to a stop near their apartment. As the couple walked from the stop to their building two gunmen emerged from a car and methodically gunned down the man, then drove off while the dead man’s wife cried for help. These events took place on July 21, 1973. Norway doesn’t have many drive-by shootings, and this wasn’t one. The whole thing … Continue reading The State Makes an Omelet