Re. paragraph one: I had intended my comment to be semi-sarcastic (children are wanted, right? Right?), but I’m tending to agree with you, my friend.
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I honestly don’t know what you mean. Unless it’s funny that I like to think people have children intentionally, because they love one another, want to share their love with a child, and intent to stick together for a while?
Kind of shocked at the “relationships often break up during pregnancy and early childhood years, and so what?” comments. Isn’t it one of Nature’s reasons for even having relationships is to have a secure environment for young children? And since we all can choose to use birth control (right?), it’s fairly safe to…
And of course, there’s nothing to say that he didn’t develop schizophrenia or another mental illness years ago, but is either off his meds or they are becoming ineffective.
Am about half-way through Claire Tomalin’s book, The Invisible Woman, which is about Charles Dickens’s affair with actress Ellen “Nelly” Ternan. It’s well-written (though I think I recognize passages from other books) and strong on the rough and ready lives of 19th century actresses. It’s weak on the influence she had…
At least we get health care at the end of our line.
No, I haven’t, and thank you! Haven’t seen one of his films in a while.
You might also like The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder. It’s more controversial, but he makes a decent case.
My favourite 17th century spy is fictional: Alexandre Dumas’s tall, blonde, branded, and absolutely irredeemable Milady de Winter. Dumas may have based her on transgender nobleman/diplomat/spy, the Chevalier d’Eon.
I think if you went looking for a case where no mistakes were made, your results would be pretty close to zero. That might be your findings if you looked into my seemingly perfect work history, and even possibly yours. Yet I am not corrupt, nor in general, bungling.
What I find especially irritating about the myth is that it encourages people to think “if you have the money, you can buy justice, legal aid is shit, poor people can’t get justice, blah blah blah.” To an extent, it’s true — a lawyer is better than no lawyer, for example — but the easy cynicism it is encourages is…
A corrupt police department bungled the investigation....
I can highly recommend Bugliosi’s book about the case. Many things people think they know about it, e.g. “the dream team”, simply aren’t true.
A campus is not “the real world”, whatever that might mean; it is not a completely public space. Students there are representatives of their university, and it is their responsibility to maintain a collegial atmosphere, welcoming to fellow students and conducive to learning.
If we are to believe the internet, much of the U.S. population has performed in soft core or even hard core porn, though they probably didn’t get paid.
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1) That is a thing extensive interviews with witnesses would uncover — what emails/letters/texts/vms/videos were exchanged? would be almost the first question you would ask, these days. Probably the second, third and fourth. And I would hope they would carefully explain to the witnesses that anything concealed, even…