@MsAnthrope: No, that's a misunderstanding of the criminal justice system. Sometimes the victim is asked if they want to press charges because the police need the victim's cooperation to bring a case. In other words, if the victim won't testify, they have no case. But the state is the prosecutor, not the victim. …

@beautiful_dirty_rich: Forgive me, but I think Facebook is the one you should be mad at, not your dad's co-worker. She didn't know you set your privacy to "friends only" for those pictures. As far as she knew, you made them public, so I'm not sure why she should have felt she was crossing boundaries. Facebook is…

@shadesofmediocrity: @twisted_martini: It's definitely state-by-state (some one-party consent, some two-party consent). I understand that California has an exception to its two-party consent rules if you are recording something as evidence of violent threats - or something like that.

@SlayBelle: I'm not sure Dodai necessarily means he's being "mind-controlled" so much as he's being manipulated, which even you seem to agree is happening. I have no idea if the are trying to imply she still has some control over him as his "maker" even after the release, but I think it's fair to say she's got the…

@BrookeD: The dialogue in this episode was great. I kept breaking into giggles for the first 15 minutes between this, "STFU!" when billed tried to dump Sookie, "We run hot," and "I don't have a nutsack."

@ThistleFig: I completely agree. The idea that domestic violence is a "private" issue is incredibly mainstream and terribly depressing. It's not until the woman ends up dead at the hands of her boyfriend/husband/ex-whatever that the general public cares, which is to remain completely ignorant of the fact that years…

This is something that has bothered me about the mainstream coverage of this whole episode (for lack of a better word). He is absolutely racist, and I'm not sure who is terribly surprised by this after his Anti-Semitic rant a few years back. I wish he'd gone away then. But all the headlines seem to be focusing on…

@yeah, well: Well, Sally Mann also staged a lot of photos. In particular, she had her underage daughters mimic a famous painting of a prostitute lounging on a chaise. While many of her images may seem chaste, some definitely had sexual undertones. While I don't condemn her, I've never been able to completely…

@MissContrarian: I know the line is difficult to draw. Pedophiles can get off on some pretty innocent pictures of children, so you can't prosecute them for just any image.

@ashleenotashley: I'm kind of afraid to google the legal requirements for child pornography lest I actually bring some up. Needless to say, the child pornography cases are completely different than the "patently offensive" line of cases. Child pornography can be banned, despite the First Amendment, not because it's…

@StaunchCharacter: Sally Mann was definitely walking a line, but I'm not aware of any evidence that her children didn't consent. Most of the photos were not explicitly sexual, but there were some exceptions that always bothered me.

@MissContrarian: There's a difference between "offensive" content that can be banned under the First Amendment and child pornography. Artistic value is a moot question when it comes to child pornography cases.

@NefariousNewt: Understood. And too bad.

@NefariousNewt: I just tried looking for that group. Is it still there? I couldn't find it anymore, so maybe we finally had a victory there.

@marciax3: Aw, Cleveland is sad, yo.

@Mrs. Beeton: I think it was the fact that it was a college town, so I knew these women were my classmates. I went to the kind of school where no one had kids (save one married couple in my class), so I can imagine it was stressful for many of them.

I worked briefly at a local drugstore in college. I never gave much thought to what people bought - with one exception. I always noticed when students - always women - came in to buy a pregnancy test, because it was a pretty good guess that, at 19 or 20, they really didn't want to be pregnant but feared they were. …

@fabulousrobots: I never watched Monk when it aired, but it's in syndication and I tell you, it doesn't take much to suck me into a marathon. It's a sweet show and I have a soft spot for Tony Shaloub.

@Kivrin: Oh, I totally agree!

@Kivrin: I agree they probably wouldn't do it; but it's not fair to criticize Irin for going with the sources she had. Not just "friends of friends" but named people who actually worked there. Dismissing those sources as "bitter" isn't entirely fair. I have some not great things to say about some of my former…