@bluebears: If she's going to support the birthers.... Also, the time line is in fact weird. I really don't care one way or the other whether this is her child, but I don't see his position as sexist.

@Diziet_Sma: I buy my organics and grass-fed everything, but seriously, dead piglets?? Makes me feel awful. I do have to note that there is sort of an unfortunate parallel here to anti-abortionists who want to parade upsetting pictures of fetuses.

Dammit — yet another image making me feel like I can't eat meat anymore. I keep thinking I'm gonna stop, but don't. Oh the guilt!

The best I've ever seen her look. Drop the pant suits more often, Hil!

@J.D.Regent: I didn't think you were, but there seems to be a lot of that here.

@JakGuy: No. You can be found guilty in the US based on circumstantial evidence. It happens all the time.

@J.D.Regent: If the evidence was tampered with, do we think the Italian appellate courts are inadequate to correct that? I just have some concerns about the presumptions that the Italian system is a mess — we have bad outcomes in the US, too.

@J.D.Regent: Well, what do you mean when you refer to "international legal norms?" Are you referring to something in the Hague Convention or something more aspirational?

@gherkinfiend: The only people that I see in this post claiming she did not get a fair trial are her parents and her lawyer. Is there an objective person or organization that makes this claim? I don't reject out of hand the notion that the trial was unfair, but for people (a) to take the word of biased sources as…

@Ipomoea: I suspect the jurors were told not to read material about the case — the same thing any American jury would be told. Sequestration of juries is extremely rare.

@Penny: If an Italian were put on trial in the US, she wouldn't get an Italian lawyer. You have to be a licensed attorney in the US in order to practice law here, I am sure the same holds in Italy.

@umyes: I don't watch the show, so wouldn't have known that. But it does seem to me that the stereotype fits the state to some degree.

Having gone to Princeton, I understand that there are more than just ridiculous and classless guidos and guidettes in New Jersey (although...see also Real Housewives of New Jersey, the next generation of these folks). But I suspect the reason that most of us do identify this type with the state is that the rest of…

@boobookitt: Ha! Great minds think alike. I posted that Santa was kind of a dick above *and* on my Facebook page last night. Not only is he cranky, he's downright mean to Rudolph in the beginning.

Yeah, I watched last night and was all excited. Three things struck me for the first time:

@theorchidthief: No one has ever suggested that baseline mammo's should begin before 40 — unless you're in a high risk group. Just say no.

@flaxen_vixen: Thank you for this — that was the one part of the whole issue that didn't make sense to me.

Boo. That is all. Sigh.

@BlondeGoddess: me too.

A friend posted this on Facebook yesterday. I have watched it 15 million times since then. I even tried to teach my 2 year old dachshund to do this. She declined.