I never said anything about her not being held responsible. I am only entertaining the motive as an intellectual exercise.

Yeah, I’m just wondering if the internal justification could have been that she truly thought she was helping, and nothing else was as important. Like I said, that mercy in this case was bigger than the law.

You should really relax.

Or she believed mercy was bigger than the law.

I’m just asking you to imagine a pretty elementary possibility: that she acted without malice—that she honestly believed she was performing the ultimate kindness. Why does that strain your imagination? I doubt you have the same problem believing the Planned Parenthood shooter’s motivations were sincere (“I saved 3,000…

Then you either don’t understand depression or you don’t understand the complexity of human beings.

It wasn’t about her—it was about him.

Same reason. She may have believed she understood his pain and thought that shallow changes in mood or circumstance didn’t affect the underlying issue.

This is my view. As a sufferer of depression herself, she may have acutely understood the dimension of pain that her boyfriend was in, and truly thought that the only way to help him was to allow him to stop the pain once and for all.

I’m wondering if perhaps she did truly think she was ending his suffering, and that her encouragment wasn’t out of spite or malice, but actually out of some pretty complex empathy that we’re just not as a society ready for.

Fabulous comment.

That Larry David clip was absolutely legit. I’d vote for Bernie just for four years of bizarro Curb skits on SNL.

SENIORITIS OBAMA

Ey, no one likes a pushy broad, ya know?

Was the blade three inches or was the knife in total three inches? A three inch blade on a three inch hilt is pretty big and scary looking, whereas a 1.5 inch blade on a 1.5 inch hilt is tiny.

All I know is this place is constantly looking for a copywriter. Eesh.

Let me break this down for ya’ll kittens.

He’s also actually genuinely funny. His appearance on the Daily Show was pretty good in that it showed how quick he is with the jokes.

Now that’s what I’m talking about

So what man. That band used to be another band called “First Too Last” from my hometown that was basically a Blink 182 carbon copy. Things change. People change. Big whoop.