My old dog, Musclebutt 2000, attempted to eat a s’more out of my mouth once. She had a bout of temporary insanity. She had never seen a s’more, and she wanted one. Can you blame her?

Hopefully in his closing argument, the prosecutor did the whole “the court will instruct you in detail on the law, but I will remind you that ‘beyond a reasonable doubt’ does not mean ‘beyond all doubt’...” Not that it always works, but sometimes jurors need to be reminded that if it takes imagining an outlandish…

When I served on a jury, on a case where the prosecution had proven very little, we had a holdout- this basic Becky who kept talking about “abiding” by the law. She “abides” by the law, so ergo anyone who is in court must be guilty of “not abiding” by the law. This one trick pony and her faux steely gaze prolonged an…

“It’s a case of “he said she said” and everybody knows women can’t be trusted.”

I think it’s a lot of what you said and a sprinkle of “but he’s Cosby. What woman isn’t gonna sleep with him for the story? Like come on, men, amirite? Amirite??” And he just keeps saying amirite louder and louder as people get more visibly uncomfortable. Not understanding that in this nonsensical theory not…

Totally... Tempura.

Someone always wants to play Twelve Angry Men.

He (and yes, I am using he) probably keeps admonishing them to “be rational”.

This seems really likely, given that they are wanting both the deposition and the reasonable doubt instruction. Somone is trying to convince a stubborn holdout or two that their doubts arent “reasonable.”

Maybe I’m being optimistic, but the jury’s questioning does sound like the majority of them are leaning toward a guilty conviction and there’s a few holdouts who think “but that funny man I saw on television would never do that!” so they have to ram home the fact that that funny man did something seriously un-funny…

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…

Creepy/disgusting detail #2,752 in this case: calling pills “your friends” especially in light of the fact the Hello Friend Foundation is in memory of Cosby’s murdered son.

Please, Lorde, bring it back! In these dark days we need things to live for.

Good onion rings > french fries > bad onion rings.

I have something called non-verbal learning disablility, which is similar to Asberger’s. It makes me very blunt. It makes me a great reporter. Social skills, no so much.

After hours in the sun, the water absorbs the healing vibrations of the flower. The water is then mixed with organic brandy and bottled.

This was fascinating. Part of me considers pulling a similar con on people with too much money and not enough sense (nothing bad, just a useless treatment so no one gets hurt. I’m not a monster. Usually.) but could I really push myself to do it for long enough to get money? I think I’d feel guilty after a while. Or…

I really try to be super open minded but when I read shit like

Science is not subjective. Naturopathy and herbal or ‘natural’ alternatives to conventional treatment is so much alt-med hokum. I understand desperate patients trying anything. But I despise the BS artists and con people who tradeon hope and give it the big sell. Paltrow obviously has no shame for hocking all this…

I swear to God, if we could figure out a way to monetize critical thinking, we might have something to combat the wave of woo that’s sweeping the nation.