I have been a SVU fan since day one. I watch the reruns on USA if nothing is on and will probably continuing watching til the end of the show BUT it has really become more of a well produced PSA or After School Special for adults. There isn’t a lot of law and the decades old L&O twist seems to have vanished. Every…

Again, every single post I’ve made on this has clearly been a discussion about how sex crimes were seen in the 70's. That was why the charge that stuck had nothing to do with force. Regardless of who the perpetrator was in the 70's if a girl who has had sex in the past, who went willingly with a man to a private home…

Sorry that you don’t approve of my use of punctuation marks. It was clear that I was talking about the attitudes of the times, which was far more permissive than today. This was not really considered a rape case by many because of bizarre ideas about consent. She went there willingly to take sexy pictures. She…

I know that. I am talking about the attitudes of the 70's.

In the minds of many people at the time that really didn’t matter. She consented to being alone with him, agreed to take sexy pictures and willingly drank champagne. And she wasn’t a virgin when she met Polanski. That was enough to make a lot of people in the 70's think that she wanted it. And he was famous so she…

Some of the attitudes you see in how this was handled have to do with attitudes of the day. It just wasn’t seen as that big of a deal for a teenager to have sex with an older man, particularly if he was famous. There are some comments that the judge made talking about her not being a virgin prior to Polanski and some…

There are so many issues with this case that make it so complicated. First, he committed an awful crime. Secondly, the proposed/negotiated punishment of 90 days was ridiculous and offensive. But then it gets complicated. One of those complications is whether or not Polanski would be able to revoke his guilty plea…

Yup! Full on soul mates, fully consummated.

Right??

It just started last week on Starz.

It’s everything that made The White Queen wonderfully bad. just amped up a little. So far I am enjoying it however the history nerd in me is all “There is no proof that Elizabeth of York had any sort of sexual relationship with Richard III, let alone the type of long-term, true love they seem to be selling!!!”

Have you seen the first episode of The White Princess?

The Medici is far more cheesy in my opinion. But I love both!

It is called “Without You There is No Us” by Suki Kim. I highly receommend it!

That just seems insane!

And he should either live with his mother or call his wife mother. Or maybe both...imagine the hijinks!!

It’s weird, isn’t it? You’d expect it from someone in Ohio but from someone who lives across the street from Canada? Not so much. I think it indicates that red neckery is a state of mind rather than having a specific geographical base. I grew up in Northern California (actual Northern California not the Bay Area) and…

He looks EXACTLY like someone named Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III should.

He has praised the new administration for its power to “change the course of America in ways that are biblical.”

No! I have never heard anyone not named Kim defend DPRK. They really, really need to do some reading. I read this amazing memoir of a female journalist who pretended to me a missionary in order to join a group of Americans to go over there and run a school. It was really fascinating. Two things that struck me: life…