I just think Amanda Knox defenders are oddly illogical when they claim the police are evil and incompetent one second, but extremely good and competent the next, when it is literally the same police and the same lab. What is the difference there?

Starred for excellent explanation but mostly for taking 50k and distributing it among 40 people and instead of 50. And having the math to back it up. No sarcasm, that is some advanced shit there.

CNN needs to stop being polite and start doing their jobs. Without any journalism training whatsoever, even I can form the question, “How much in dollars is ‘tremendous’?”

this particular deduction, which was available in 1995 to real estate developers, allowed businesses to claim the loss of borrowed money IF the institution borrowed from wrote it off as a loss.

You raise baby orphan squirrels?

Starred for unexpectedly horrifying.

My favorite part is

I’ll tell you what the male squirrels are doing. Trolling my dog.

Aw, but this is really sweet:

You are extremely likeable! I like you.

Now that you point it out... why so many lines????

Okay how do you know that? I mean obviously we didn’t have western European style law schools, but I’m gonna take a stab in the dark here and say that all cultures throughout history have a system for teaching young people what their culture’s laws are and how they should be interpreted. And that every culture…

I looked it up: Italian is spoken in some parts of Croatia and Slovenia.

You know, or black, or poor, or a woman who plays into the prosecutor’s weird sex crime fantasies.

I liked that that part was animated.

“just fell off the law truck” is the most delightful phrase I’ve ever read.

Wow, hey, let’s take this sweet innocent young guy’s suffering — solitary for 6 months — and use it to appearance shame him!

Have you seen photos and home movies of her before the murder? She’s relaxed, sweet, and adorable. I hope she can someday afford to be that way again.

Yes, so bizarre! And his reactions when each piece of evidence pointed in the opposite direction were so weird! He just doubled down and acted like, “well my theory could still be true and everything we know about the world says it probably is.” When really, like you say, it’s the least likely scenario.

It wasn’t lingerie. She wasn’t allowed into her apartment so she needed to buy underwear.