"Larry... I'm a cop."

The Washington Post today is referring to the whole Sheehan mess as a "standoff." As if this is Reservoir Dogs, or fucking High Noon. The Wild Bunch - now THAT was a standoff. To use the word in this situation is an insult to Peckinpah.

This isn't a standoff, it's a circus, a tent-camp of loonies led a deranged mother exploiting her son's death. It's a Tim Burton freakshow without the pathos (or, possibly, with the same sort of slimy bathos that's infected his recent work).