This is the thread where the fringster comes back with teeth

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Adder

Only in serving on a grand jury. We indicted a guy for possession with intent to distribute, and for having a hand gun, but not for possession of a hand gun "during a crime of violence or other serious offense." As a matter of law, possession with intent to distribute is a predicate "serious offense," but despite three tries, the prosecutor couldn't make a majority of the panel understand that they had already indicted on all necessary elements.

Isn't that double jeopardy? I saw something like that on tv once.

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by dtb

I guess I was surprised at the uniformity of scorn heaped upon South Carolina. If I had written such a letter, I would have used Alabama or Mississippi.

Ah, our letters didn't limit themselves to South Carolina, but it was generally the south that took the hit. I believe Tennessee and Arkansas were prominent among the targets.

Still, Texans should count it as a good day when Northerners talk about education without sneering at what they do down there.

[Gattigap]

Originally Posted by dtb

I guess I was surprised at the uniformity of scorn heaped upon South Carolina. If I had written such a letter, I would have used Alabama or Mississippi.

Well, us Sandlappers are known for bringing the crazy. Too small for a republic, too large for a mental asylum.

But your neigbors' use of SC (or ALA or MS) as the object of scorn for delaying the presentation of an Obama speech is a little misguided. They might go for small-potatoes shit like that in the Virginias and Colorados and Californias of the world, but not there. Letters like that suggest that all the writer's seen of the place is Charleston's Battery Row and Hilton Head.

[Adder]

Originally Posted by Cletus Miller

Isn't that double jeopardy? I saw something like that on tv once.

I think it's final jeopardy, actually. But you have negative winnings, so you don't get to play.

[Hank Chinaski]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

Well, us Sandlappers are known for bringing the crazy. Too small for a republic, too large for a mental asylum.

But your neigbors' use of SC (or ALA or MS) as the object of scorn for delaying the presentation of an Obama speech is a little misguided. They might go for small-potatoes shit like that in the Virginias and Colorados and Californias of the world, but not there. Letters like that suggest that all the writer's seen of the place is Charleston's Battery Row and Hilton Head.

2. I was planning on going to Charleston next time I travel to Savannah, but I'm sort of nervous y'all might start shelling Ft. Sumter again.

[notcasesensitive]

I keep forgetting to tell those of you who care about such things (ahem, Diane Keaton) that Peter Thottam is running for state assembly in my district! There are Thottam posters plastered all around town.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Pretty Little Flower

I think you pulled your statement about the main reason why statutory rape laws exist out of your ass, but whatever.

Your second paragraph is a little hard to understand due to your usual level of writing clarity, but the point is this: He got his initial sentence, which to us seems ridiculously lenient, in part because different laws and attitudes at the time gave the prosecutor what was probably a legitimate concern that he would walk. So he pleads to that sentence, and then the judge sees the Oktoberfest photo, reneges on the deal, begins acting completely erratically, and suddenly Polanski thinks, not only am I screwed if stick with my plea, but if I go to trial, I will have to go to trial with this guy as my judge.

Please stop. You are making me agree with Hank. It's a squicky feeling.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Atticus Grinch

I think this is a great tradition and will start doing so myself. I happened to note your LS has the same colors as my undergrad school. Would you mind mailing a pair so I can get started? Foot ball season starts soon, so time is of the essence.

When I picture Atticus, and then I picture him asking a woman to send him a pair of her panties, my head starts to hurt.

[evenodds]

Originally Posted by Adder

Your persona is inconsistent with having an alma mater at which this would happen.

Originally Posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy

Oh, Adder, you who know so little of the world.

Remember the old Dorothy Parker saying, "If all the girls who went to the Harvard-Yale game were laid end to end, I wouldn't be surprised." Well, it's even like that at the second tier schools.

I think I love you, G3, though I am certain you'll dissuade me shortly.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by taxwonk

Statutory rape laws still exist because minors are not competent to consent, and non-minors have a duty to inquire.

True, obviously. But Hank is pointing to the kind of facts that are often used as evidence of consent -- she got naked, she got in the hot tub. With that tweak, his point is basically correct.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski

ummm, a majority of my son's graduating class are potentially felons, and yet no one was prosecuted. can you break that down for me?

Just as I was starting to agree with things he said, the old Hank reemerges.

The universe is righting itself. E/O won't have to send AG her panties, either.

[Sidd Finch]

Originally Posted by Gattigap

I don't understand why this is surprising. Bears fans are SuperFans(tm), and you Don't Ever Fuck With A SuperFan.

I'm going to the Niners-Bears game next month, with a group of Bears fans (who are coming here from Chicago for the game, and also incidentally to see family). I've been warned that these are SERIOUS Bears fans, who have already started the trash-talking.

Today's posts make me nervous.

[Cletus Miller]

Originally Posted by Adder

I think it's final jeopardy, actually. But you have negative winnings, so you don't get to play.

Huh. Didn't think that was sufficient as a for cause challenge.

Did the prosecutor really misunderstand the average juror that much?

[Greedy,Greedy,Greedy]

Originally Posted by evenodds

I think I love you, G3, though I am certain you'll dissuade me shortly.

I will try to bask in the glory for at least a brief moment before I do so. Shall I whisper more Dorothy Parker quotes in your ear?

[Atticus Grinch]

Originally Posted by Sidd Finch

Just as I was starting to agree with things he said, the old Hank reemerges.

The universe is righting itself. E/O won't have to send AG her panties, either.

Confidential to evenodds: Sidd is not the boss of you.