There's no set percentage for certainty regarding "beyond a reasonable doubt". However, contrasting it with the standard in civil, non-criminal, cases is helpful. There the standard for liability is a "preponderance", that means the slimmest margin of certainty is needed. 51% or even 50.01% is enough to find…

If you go to the youtube channel this video is from, this cat and baby are totally BFF. The cat seems able to hold its own!

No. But bless her heart, she's still trying.

I believe that suffering a miscarriage was a profound experience for her. I would really like to hear her honest opinion regarding the reports that have been coming out regarding women who have been investigated or prosecuted when they also had miscarriages. Unfortunately, I don't think that I'll hear it.

I did not mean to say that you felt that defense attorneys should be marginalized. I apologize for previous clumsy writing.

My point is that casting aspersions on defense lawyers doing their jobs, is in fact a misguided attack on our system of law. Whether or not these lawyers are creeps is besides the point. If everyone thought the way you and the author of this post did, perhaps we could sufficiently marginalize all defense lawyers. …

They aren't trying to "weasel out of punishment". Their lawyers are providing them with the fullest defense that due process allows.

I want that sassy pair that used to host the Hills aftershow. I nominate them to host everything on MTV.

Yeah, I definitely agree with you. It's just depressing because I can predict with 100% certainty whenever the numbers are published the bigots will give themselves a big pat on the back.

I'm very excited about increasing healthcare for underserved communities. As a gay man, I'm dreading another round of "official statistics" showing higher rates of STDs and addiction in the LGBT community. Bigots will argue that these numbers prove why gay people should be further marginalized, rather than consider…

Ew, Jezebel. My dishwasher does a good job and is very clean.

I swear to god I was at a bar (gay bar in NYC) about a month ago and some drunk white guy approached myself (I'm white, for full context) and my Korean friend and his black date, and immediately asked to touch the black guy's hair and then when we all laughed hysterically at him, he said he wasn't racist because he…

"Can I touch your hair?"

I care, because by all appearances Obama and Michelle seem to have a marriage in which there is a strong partnership, which means Obama very likely cares more about what Michelle's opinion is than he cares about any other single individual's opinion.

Knowing your status is really important. For yourself, you can begin treatment and prolong your life. And for others, someone who is medicated is generally much less infections than someone who is untreated.

The divorce rate in MA has actually gone down since 2004, which gets ignored by people like this guy.

Wow, that was really touching.

Just be sure to meet in public and tell a friend where you'll be and also give your friend the guy's contact info as well. And also for internet dates it's sometimes a good idea to do an extremely short first meeting. Like just coffee or something (indicate that you definitely have to be somewhere in like an hour or…

I come from a socially liberal Catholic family. Most of us have been fairly put off by the hypocrisy of church leaders and the sex abuse scandal and gay rights stuff BUT I think more than any other mainstream religion in America, there are many members of the Catholic faith who don't view it as an all or nothing…

Ah, Jeter the Cheater. A couple of years ago, while she was around age 27 or 28, after competing at high level track for years at a fairly consistent level, she bulked up significantly and made HUGE drops in her personal best 100m time.