I think I can remember when Lush started re-introducing parabens into some of their products. I figure if its good enough for Lush, it's good enough for me.

Megyn Kelly is inching her way back to reality?

That is so....I hesitate to use the word stupid, but that's what I'm coming up with. There is absolutely no way to ensure "no doubt." Short of video of the person committing the crime, there is absolutely no way to eliminate all doubt (hell, even with video doubt can persist). That's just mind-blowing in how…

I'd love to see your version of a society in which we could actually protect constitutional rights and somehow carry out executions within 24 hours. I'm starting to think that you're not exactly a legal scholar...

If you think that anybody who deals with lawyers develops a bias against them, that speaks to the people you know, not the lawyers. But that's a problem for you (the company you keep and all...), not me.

But if deterrence is the goal, would the death penalty really meet that here? There are two kinds of deterrence - specific and general. So let's consider both of them.

Uh...I've also met plenty of defense attorneys who are pretty decent people.

Nope, not diversionary at all. You argued that if prosecutors were actually being decent, that in and of itself would be newsworthy. But how so? If they do their jobs in a manner that is decent towards the people they work with, then why would such an event be media worthy? If everything is going correctly, that…

I have worked primarily on the East Coast, and yes, I've met plenty of attorneys in prosecutions who actually do care about people and try to do their best. And why would it be news? "People are basically decent to each other - news at 11." Really? You do know what the overwhelming majority of criminal cases are…

Indeed. I'm not arguing that Marissa Alexander's race did not influence this case, but just pointing out that Corey seems far more motivated by a desire to be tough on crime than any particular racial animus.

The conservative media is simply not going to pass up a chance to advance the narrative that Muslims are seeking worldwide dominance. They must be shocked that nobody swiftly attempted to chop off poor Michelle's head over such a thing.

Uh, actually I am fairly familiar with prosecutors. I am an attorney and have worked in pretty close conjunction with them. And yes, there are a great many of who their hardest to resolve cases with compassion and try to figure out what is best for everyone involved. But guess what? You don't hear about those cases…

Eh, before you travel down that road, you should know that Angela Corey was the same prosecutor who doggedly pursued Ronald Thompson (an elderly white man) who fired two warning shots while trying to defend his female friend from her violent grandson, who was trying to force his way into the home.

It bothers me how the prosecution simply could not let this case go.

He's stated in interviews before that he falls to the atheist/agnostic side of things, but unfortunately, since Scientology is a nontheistic belief system, that doesn't preclude him from being one. His wife is Jewish, so I'm not sure. Scientology seems to favor couples who both are members.

Yeah, because its not like they'll be getting out at some point and that sexual violence in prison won't turn them into more violent, more dangerous people who will just take freedom as an opportunity to take out their urges on even more innocent victims (heck, they might not even wait till they get out).

So what have we learned here? Basically, that to secure any kind of conviction for rape, you need nothing short of video of the crime itself, including video of the events leading up to the crime.

Somewhere, someplace inside a Domino's corporate office, somebody had to sit there and think, "Yes, let's turn a human tongue into a gimp." How does one explain that to the graphics department that actually had to create this?

I'm a vegetarian, so I like to think I can spare myself. I get that weird things get into non-meat foods too, but boy I feel better not consuming them.

No. I'm biracial and while I get why he needed to apologize (the term is outdated and is used by racist people) I also can get that he used a term that he thought was okay to discuss an issue that actually impacts people of color. He is nowhere close to the same as people who intentionally use racist language (or say…