The source article says: "Jurors paid for their own personal purchases and appointment costs. The sheriff's office paid for the movie and bowling excursions and the Ripley's admission."

I don't have a problem with this. Being sequestered is very disruptive to a juror's life... I don't begrudge them a few creature comforts just because I don't like the verdict.

"Note: Jurors paid for their own purchases and appointment costs"

I love how the 'Note' at the end quietly mentions these women had to pay for all services and experiences themselves. So basically the beef is they were allowed outside of their rooms? Being on a sequestered jury should not mean you are held in solitary detention. The fact any excursion required a chaperon is a…

Want me to get mad about this? Show me that this treatment went above and beyond what would be "normal" for a sequestered jury, and we'll see if I can muster up some outrage for you. Being sequestered must be incredibly stressful—no contact with the outside world for 22 days is a long time. The state needs to do…

Completely unintentionally, I got to cut to the front of a long line at the San Gennaro festival because I was wearing an unflattering top. I started to protest, but Mr. Trousersocks gently put his hand on my lower back to comfort me, and the image was complete.

Speaking of glue factory, I was just reading Madeline in London to my four year old last night. "Some poor old dobbins are made into glue..." That was a fun thing to explain. Almost as fun as explaining what an organ donor is. (Take note, Jezzies. If your kid sees the heart on your driver's license, tell them it…

I had a management job where the bulk of my staff was female. My manager was all about outward appearances. She wanted everyone to look perfect (we were hidden away in a corner area with no windows. I once asked her who the fuck was going to see us).

Back in my babysitting years I worked a couple years with a family who had the most stunningly beautiful toddler I had every seen. She was an America Girl doll brought to life down to the thick long hair and porcelain skin. I was in for a shock with baby girl #2 joined the family...seriously this infant looked like…

Oh my god, I love your baby, where did you get it?!

That is the ugliest effing baby I have ever seen.

LIES! YOU HAVE SEEEEEEEEEN MY BABY! HE IS AMAZING.

I'm not going to lie, this gif perfectly mirrors the hypnobirthing image I had in my head during my most recent labor. Just when a lady thinks she's being unique, turns out there's already a gif of it.

BAH DAH DAH DAH DAH WE'RE NOT PAYING YOU

Overall, conservatives seem to be very focused on punishment and making sure people don't "get away' with stuff. They don't want women who can't afford to take care of a child to be able to abort, but they also tell themselves that poor women get pregnant just to increase their welfare check (funny how I've never seen…

Right. The thing is, part of the anti-affordable care argument is basically denying that there's a problem in the first place. Here we see that there is CLEARLY A PROBLEM if people are willing to go to prison and you are recognizing (or claiming) that their motivation for giving up their freedom is just to get…

Same here - the beeb is sleeping and I'm currently enjoying a Rogue Voodoo Doughnut Chocolate Peanut Butter Banana Ale with NO GUILT. My mother saw a picture of me at a wedding with a glass of wine in hand and had a conniption - "You know that whatever you drink goes straight to her, don't you?!" - as if I have no…

Oh man. Confession time. Once when my daughter was... well, I don't remember now, but only a few months old, tops, my husband and I were SO EXHAUSTED that we let her sleep in her detachable carseat in the den on the other side of the house. Out of earshot. We are not "cry it out" people. We just literally could…

You know what? They don't know. With my first, it was "put him on his tummy so he doesn't choke to death if he spits up;" with my second, it was "put her on her back, tummy-sleeping causes SIDS;" with my third, it was "side-sleeping is how he needs to sleep."

"He likes to stare at it, but he also likes to stare at the ceiling fan"

My kids watch way too much tv. I don't really mind the tv itself - it's the stuff they are not doing as much of instead, like drawing or building stuff or whatever . I have my reasons (ok, excuses) but I still feel bad about it.