Bloggers shake their heads at the latest botched hanging in Iraq. They also consider the rise in unmarried women and close-read excerpts from O.J. Simpson's "confessional."

Double-header: Two men convicted alongside Saddam Hussein—his half-brother Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and former intelligence chief Awad Hamed al-Bandar—were hanged early Monday morning. An execution video shown to journalists revealed that Ibrahim was decapitated during the process. Bloggers shake their still-attached heads at the executioners' incompetence.

At The Moderate Voice, Joe Gandelman squirms over the botched job: "It's almost irrelevant that he was slated to be executed and that this was an accident. The way it turned out will be used against the government—and more tensions within Iraq are likely."

Ed Morrissey at the conservative Captain's Quarters encourages those disgusted by the procedure to "remember the brutal methods these men used to oppress and murder Iraqis by the thousands, and the real fear that a coup d'etat by Ba'athist remnants could return them to their former positions. These are not common criminals but bloodthirsty tyrants whose deaths are required for Iraqis to have confidence in their departure from power."

Criminal defense attorney Jeralyn Merritt at TalkLeft notes that Ibrahim was suffering from cancer: "Life in prison plus cancer wasn't enough of a punishment?" But conservative Gaius at Blue Crab Boulevard tires of the "crocodile tears."

Over at Gun Toting Liberal, Matthew O'Keefe retches at the lurid descriptions in some accounts of the unintentional beheading: "[T]he paper or the news services just could have said that they both were hanged 'til dead. Justice was served and it serves no purpose to gloat on the outcome other than feed the insurgents in Iraq."

Liberal BooMan at Booman Tribune argues it's not the fact of the beheading but the symbolism that matters: "Who needs an attached head when you're dead? The main effect of a beheading is on the living. It's inspires terror."

After promising "no jokes about wanting to get a head in iraq," lefty skippy the bush kangaroo drops this gem: "[T]he execution of saddam's brother went so badly, the noose accidentally severed his head. actually, it was saddam's half-brother, at least he was after the hanging."

Read more about the botched hanging. In Slate, Daniel Engber explained how to conduct a hanging.

Are men necessary? The New York Times reports that 51 percent of American women now live without a spouse—making the number of unmarried women greater than married for the first time.