Life & Wisdom Quote by Vincent Bugliosi

The line lands like a jab because it treats “still angry” as both personal grievance and civic indictment. Bugliosi isn’t merely venting; he’s modeling a prosecutor’s moral accounting, where time doesn’t soften outrage when the system fails to deliver a verdict that matches the evidence. The casual “just like” is doing heavy lifting: it normalizes sustained anger as reasonable, even necessary, in the face of celebrity impunity.

The reference to “Simpson” is a shorthand grenade. O.J. Simpson’s 1995 acquittal became the era’s defining spectacle of race, policing, media, and money, a trial where truth felt less like a destination than a brand. By saying “getting by,” Bugliosi frames the outcome not as a contested legal result but as an escape act. That verb implies strategy, loopholes, and the quiet assistance of institutions built to privilege charisma and resources. “Two murders” is equally blunt, stripping away tabloid euphemism and reminding the reader that the cultural conversation often drifted toward entertainment, personalities, or “reasonable doubt” theatrics rather than the dead.

Context matters because Bugliosi made his name narrativizing guilt with prosecutorial certainty (Helter Skelter) and later aimed that certainty at other public controversies. The intent here is to reclaim moral clarity from a culture that treats high-profile trials as content. The subtext: if you’re not still angry, you’ve been trained to confuse legal theater with justice.