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I like the couple that was arrested after they went on the Dr. Phil show (strike one) and boasted about their multi-state crime spree. They are pleading not guilty too. Brilliant.

http://www.popeater.com/article/ca-c...g-on-tv/669892

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you didn't get another job did you?:confused::(

Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 

Lions' fans experiences may be different because the games we are watching invlove the Lions, so there isn't much excitement on the field.

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It's part of the child abuse reporting statute. They threw in the definitions of sexual assault of a minor in as well as the general abuse definitions. I generally have no problem with reporting statutes, and I think it's a good thing that professionals are requried to report sexual abuse. I just find it problematic that the romeo-and-juliet law doesn't contemplate juliet-and-juliet.

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In my local (small-town) newspaper, there were lots and lots of letters to the editor this week about the uproar caused by Obama's speech. Apparently, the Region Superintendent or the school board (I didn't really follow the "controversy") decided that they would tape and review the speech before allowing students to see it. Once they "OK'd" the speech, parents would be given the opportunity to opt out of their children's seeing it.

Anyway, several (really, more than two) letters included remarks to the effect of, "I didn't realize I had moved from Connecticut to South Carolina."

Re: Top Chef
 

Yet another thing that makes it hard to tell the two of us apart. Sigh.

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My recent grand jury experience has given me no confidence in the thought processes of juries. Added to the stuff PLF mentioned, the DA may have been concerned the jury would have residual sympathy for Polanski over Manson killing his wife and think he had "suffered enough."

Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 

Per game at Soldier Field.

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

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I consider than fairly even-handed for a state under the sway of the loons. Problematic, still, yeah. But surprising, not at all.

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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.

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We had exactly the same thing here. Except replace Connecticut with Massachusetts for the letters.

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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.

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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.

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You'll see that at a Jets game on any drive that's not a three-and-out.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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.

Big news!
 

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.

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

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

Did the prosecutor really misunderstand the average juror that much?

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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?

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

Re: Big news!
 

Wow. Forgot all about that guy. Just checked out his website. Sure, it's California and all, but having worked a few campaigns in my time I think I would recommend not linking all that 9/11 "Truther" and Illuminati stuff. Might make him seem a wee bit unhinged.

Re: Tucker is an Irvin fan?
 

Well, sure, when you put it that way.

Which is why I was very careful to put it another way, you cockblocking dumbass.

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confidential to Sidd- you whiffed on both my and atticus's posts in one single post!

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California's stat rape laws only acknowledge the offender's age and any age disparity in the severity of the crime, not its commission. Meanwhile, the mandatory reporter statute defines pretty much any sexual gratification of or from a minor as abuse of that minor. So technically 17-year-olds dry humping in a car is reportable child abuse. Mutual, that is. Same sex or opposite sex -- we're more equitable in that regard than in marriage laws.

Meanwhile, most local law enforcement tends to remember that a crime that isn't a crime unanimously declared so by 12 random constituents isn't a crime at all. So unless they think 12 random folks would agree the crime should be punished (factors such as developmental delay, or a pattern of abuse or exploitation) they charge neither the kids who dunnit nor the mandatory reporter that should technically have reported it. Can you think of 12 neighbors who would jail a teacher who failed to drop a dime on two students having consensual nookie? If so, I politely suggest that you move before they charge your debauched asses with aggravated felony mopery in the first degree.

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My subscription has lapsed, does mopery involve blind people or the pope? I always mix that up.

Spanky Beware
 

I was compelled to look it up:

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Does the teacher refuse to acknowledge intelligent design as relevant to science and support abortion rights? If so, I know of neighborhoods (not mine) where 12 neighbors might put that teacher in jail. I think one of them is called "Kansas".

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Yeah, I know. Still, it's a pain in the ass when my docs deliver babies at the public hospital in the county with the largest teenage pregnancy rate in the country. They don't get to pick and choose which cases to report. Fortunately, the reporting requirement allows for the affirmative defense.

Can I say how tired I am of the flu?
 

How many are Bears fans fighting each other?

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Aren't you a toff? Because e/o sounds like new money trying to be old money. Wouldn't work.