That would have been a way better reason for those alleged "feminists" to be up in arms than being mad at what's her name for posting the picture. (I know that was a throwaway, but it was such a dumb one. Just in the way I'm annoyed Lip telling Debbie she doesn't have any protection from discrimination because she…

I agree there are problems with the way the show has conflated some legitimate mental health stigma issues with glossing over a lot of the reality of bipolar with "oh, he's on meds, so that's all fixed." But I actually thought he was making a dig at the number of mentally ill people who have been shot by police, or…

I'm pretty sure calling out DCFS for diaper rash would not be good public policy (both in terms of overwork and in terms of discouraging doctor visists). And they can't take away a child because the mother is 15. And newborns falling—even in the hospital—seems to be more common than I would have thought, even among…

I agree, in a lot of ways, but it would be a lot more convincing if the show had bothered to show Ian managing his illness—referring to him going to therapy, maintaining a structured routine, self-monitoring his symptoms or shown that his family was adequately prepared to be a support system, which I think is pretty…

Yes, I think the actor really nailed it this season—I felt like it really showed the posturing over the vulnerability (and even a little bit of innocence, when it came to Dominique.)

I liked the Child 44 books, but Raisa is so much more compelling a character than Leo, IMO. I felt more or less neutral about the book until Raisa's first appearance, with the creepy doctor at their apartment, and then I was hooked.

Part of me wants to imagine her tooling off to her spy missions in one of those pink Cadillacs, sample case filled with weapons. . .

Heh, my cat <—- too! And she wasn't in pain or sick when she started peeing on the bed once a week, she was just being Evil.

I had it beaten out of my by my high school newspaper adviser.

And without it, we wouldn't get "I'd like to test that theory."

I could also listen to him in Bleak Expectations basically for the rest of my life.

His version of the story was always that he was just another white man oppressed by "PC" culture and "special rights" for minorities—he's a natural there. :eyeroll:

That's apparently what he claimed in his book and prime time interviews:

Definitely. That was so frustrating back in the earlier episodes, knowing just how right he was, and how blithely Clark dismissed his concerns.

My understanding is that as a witness, you can pick and choose—but if you answer, you've "opened the door" for further questions on that specific aspect, and you can't plead the fifth at that point. The example I saw was something like you could answer no to a question like "were you at the crime scene?" but if you…

His attorney probably told him not to answer any questions at all—my anecdotal understanding was that would be pretty common advice in that situation, rather than having a non-lawyer figuring out the ramifications of each question while on the stand, and also because once you've answered a question rather than…

Agreed. Perjury—especially from a police officer—is a big deal, and I don't think it's that often that you literally have recorded proof that someone flat-out lied.

I've been thinking about that episode of This American Life about OJ's post trial attempt to do a "Punked!" type show (someone posted youtube links last time I mentioned it; it's as awful and bizarre as you think) and I can definitely picture Cuba-OJ doing that.

I like they actually did some exposition about why Clark and, uh, the other guy? District Attorney? aren't completely gung ho for a mistrial—not just the cost, but Marcia's point that if it appears the prosecution is in any way manipulating affairs to make a mistrial necessary, double jeopardy could attach.

I actually interpreted your quotes as conveying the opposite, but okay. Jane clearly considers herself a virgin in a fairly specific way, as illustrated by the fact that she and Michael aren't having sex before the wedding. She's kissed/made out a fair amount, which I'm pretty sure she also did before the show…