SNL is the same as it's always been-inconsistent. When it's great, it's amazing! When it's bad it's...real bad.

God I love Seattle.

This person tortured and murdered a child.

That was happening to Native women in the US as late as the 1980's as a matter of official policy, and it still happens in the way the article described to this day. The most shocking thing about it is that so many people who read this will be surprised by it.

To piggyback of what Vulcan Has No Moon said, I know a middle class white woman who was sleeping in the same bed with her baby when it died. (Maybe SIDS? Maybe she rolled over and smothered him?) There may have been a little investigation, but it was done in a way that would be sensitive to her loss.

Oh, he can do that just fine.

I think it says some pretty deplorable things about our society that rather than searching for ways to help people with mental illnesses, we wait until they hurt someone, and then either send them to prison or sterilize them so that we can ignore the issue. I mean, God forbid we work towards ensuring people get…

I am stuck in the great Hoosier state and let me tell you that's a real possibility. We're a very red state and he has been considered untouchable. Now every hardcore Democrat I know is saying he's vulnerable and we have a real chance. I am so embarrassed for my state. But silver lining: People detest discrimination.…

San Fran has followed suit.

If you read the story, she and the baby were sleeping in the same bed and it died. If this were a wealthy, white Park Slope yuppie mother "Co-Sleeping", there wouldn't be charges because it would be a "tragic accident" or "SIDS".

Men love to control women's genitals. They won't control their own but they do so love to control women's.

He went on to add,

Funk said people could be ordered to stay away from children, and the state wouldn't have to resort to such invasive measures.

Did you read the article? It was part of the plea deal. If she didn't want to consent to it, she didn't have to take the plea deal.

I understand how to some, this seems entirely logical. Decades of mental illness, mysterious death of a baby, and an easy way to make sure it never happens again. But we should learn from death penalty cases that government can't be trusted to make these decisions. Over time they will over reach and people will be…

I remember my mom making an offhand remark one day that my grandma refused to go to the tribal clinic while she was having a baby. She didn't want to be sterilized. She knew what happened to a number of women who went there and she didn't want to be one of them.

Where I live, it was legal for the government to sterilize people from 1928 until 1972 - the law was amended in 1937 to remove the need for consent. It was passed to sterilize the mentally ill to prevent them from passing their defective genes, but in actual fact it was used on the poor, aboriginal people, disabled…

Thank you so much to you (and everyone) for the detailed advice. Given it's one tooth, I think I like the idea of local, unless the dentist says, "NO YOU WILL DIE OF PAIN." I had a horrifically painful abscess last week (the reason the tooth needs to go!), as in, waking up in the middle of the night screaming painful,…

I converted all of my CD's to MP3's and sold all the CD's on Craigslist for $300.00.