I’m starting to think evil is a preservative.

Yeah, I used to watch a documentary on cable called Escaping Polygamy and every episode made my stomach churn.

Speaking of good reading, a library patron recently recommended a stunning memoir called “The Sound of Gravel,” written by Ruth Wariner, who grew up in the 80s in one of these fundamentalist sects. She talks about the welfare fraud (among other horrible things) where they had to go back and forth over the border to…

It’s definitely a proven thing, and often why jury selection tends to skew male. Female identified people tend to have a harder time overcoming that (or at least used to before much discussion of rape culture became mainstream- maybe it’s improving?).

I once heard COUNSEL explain reasonable doubt as “it has to be the most reasonable sounding scenario than any other” and NO, that is NOT RIGHT. It’s hard for people to understand. I’m curious if this trial is admitting any testimony as to the other allegations because when you look at the totality of the evidence, it…

Probably not a he- studies show women are more likely to acquit rape defendants then men

Honestly, I think it means there are one or two asshole holdouts who are making up nonsense scenarios in which consent could be obtained from a woman who was drugged (“well, before he drugged her she likely would have had sex with him because she was in his room!”). IME on a jury there is always some asshole who…

Short Creek is a pretty good example of how the FLDS plays. They own the police forces, utility services, and county officials in and around their compounds. Non-FLDS are pushed out or prevented from buying homes. Leaders collect heavy tithes from the working men and women of the town and also scam off government aid…

Was it this Broadly article? Tiny Tombstones: Inside the FLDS Graveyard for Babies Born from Incest

I imagine Yankton being slang for ‘jerking off.’

“And c’mon, I work in a pawn shop in South Dakota. I got a lotta boredom to work out. “

I’m glad they caught him. The judge was warned that if he was allowed out on bail, he’d bolt - and sure enough, he did. They need to not make that mistake again.

“Pawn shop owner Kevin Haug told the AP, “Every once in a while, when someone’s weird, we look into them for no apparent reason other than we’re just bored sometimes.””

I want to know more about this “foot stamp fraud”

This post only serves to remind me that Bill Paxton from Big Love passed way.

Actually, this is how so most businesses are run. They are not tight ships. Upper management is usually a hotbed of nepotism. That’s why few survive being passed down to the founder’s clueless children.

It’s also oddly implying that Obama and Hillary are the leaks? How would that even work, when the leaks come from the Trump people?

But she’s a BLACK wedding planner! They know all about that urban stuff...you think some so-called “expert” could do it better?

There are entire university departments dedicated to urban planning and design, and America, though young as a country, has made contributions to the history of architecture with greats like Buckminster Fuller. American design experts are in international demand, creating environmentally friendly plans for quickly…

Girl sounds like she’s a few tables and fish dinners short of a wedding reception if you ask me.