If his lawyer was able to successfully pursue a “not guilty by reason of insanity” or “guilty but mentally ill” verdict (very, very hard to do - google “McNaughten rules” for the details) Mr. Sundown could find himself locked up for a very, very long time. The psychiatrists would have to find with reasonable certainty…

Prisons are the new mental health system, unfortunately. Really - he'll probably get more treatment there than he will in the community. And "mentally ill" and "criminal" are not mutually exclusive. He committed a serious crime and is capable of escalating further. Prison is the right place for him.

Our criminal justice system = our mental health system. Family members are often relieved when their ill family member finally gets arrested because their family member will now have to take their medication and participate in therapy. It’s a fucking shame.

The criteria for involuntary treatment is impossible to meet.…

Well if Italians make up one half of the bulk of pilgrims the Irish make up the other half. Seriously between prayers of intercession to Padre Pio and to our Lady of Medjugorje and making brown bread and apple pies,a my Irish aunties were kept very busy.

That is your opinion. If the fetus has organs and limbs, what is it missing for you to consider it a person?

You leave it in for at least 8 hours. Then you take it out, wash it with soap & water and let it air dry. Totally simple and not as gross as you might think it is.

I don't disagree. Still doesn't make her a murderer.

Weeell, she did some bad shit to a guy one of my besties dated back in the day. I got the play-by-play in real time. I can’t give details but it was pretty creepy, manipulative and quite frankly totally gross. Of course the guy my bestie was dating was a total scumbag, so I guess that makes Courtney a “sort of bad”…

Actually there was a movie made about Sid and Nancy titled “Sid and Nancy”. Courtney Love (pre-plastic surgery) played a minor role in the movie.

And for fuck’s sake Steve, you’ve got all that money, hire someone to build a greywater reclamation system for you! All that water from your kitchen sink, your shower and your washing machine would go a long way toward keeping your garden green.

Sounds right to me. I was diagnosed with a concussion at the ER after my husband accidentally (as opposed to “accidentally”) slammed the hatchback door on my head last Christmas. No x-rays needed; the headache-y, dizzy, hazy disoriented feeling spoke for itself.

They consider it blasphemous to say or spell out the full name of God. It's like, God is so powerful and holy that using his name in any other context other than prayer is to defile it.

So proud of my peeps back in the motherland. Well-fucking-done people, well done.

And it’s amazing to me that some folks down in the greys think the writer expressing frustration at having put so much time, energy and opening her personal life into following through on her complaint with the university administration only to have the accused get a “do over” somehow makes her akin to people who…

Thank you.

Truth

They haven’t pooped on me all that often. Chickens, believe it or not groom regularly throughout the day. Here’s a YouTube of a hen taking a dirt bath.

They also like to follow you around and check out what you’re doing. They live raisins and will do tricks (okay ONE trick) for them. I like to walk around the yard with one of the hens perched on my shoulder, pretending that I’m a pirate.

Her music is a wonderful gift to us all but I do wish that there was some alternate universe where Amy was a moderately successful (anonymous to the public) studio musician who would leave her gig when work was done, hop on the tube and head home for dinner and a cuddle with her SO. No paparazzi, no hangers-on ...…

I don't disagree that he *may* have been exploring a fantasy that he would never act on in real life, but even if what he was doing was pure fantasy, he was sharing the sensitive personal information of his "victims" with the guy he was spitballing his cannibalism fantasies with on-line.

What if the other guy was…