They probably didn’t have work visas, so they were unlikely to have been working legally.

I have never heard of private industry paying people to eat lunch unless they’re salaried, and that’s just ‘cause they get paid for whatever they do.

/puts on fair housing attorney hat

The driving of the car/battery thing doesn’t really mean much to me either, in terms of his confession. The only DNA connecting Avery to the car was the DNA at the hood and the blood. No fingerprints, no other DNA — if he was in that car, it would have been different. It’s also not difficult to do a swab of DNA from…

You can wear tights if you have a dress above the knee. It sounds like the family is a mix of observant and non-observant, so there will be a mix of different styles. There will also be friends there who aren’t Jewish. You can also wear dark slacks if you’d like. You don’t have to say anything specific to the family —…

Why would he not crush the car, though, if he put it there?! If he can clean up blood, and burn a body, wouldn’t he crush the car!?! It’s not like he could sell it. This just baffles me.

Meh, I’m an attorney and I think Avery’s defense attorneys in the homicide case did a pretty good job. They were facing a lot of issues with media tainting pretty much the entire jury pool. I also think we have to consider Wisconsin criminal procedure. For instance, unless there is evidence to substantiate the claim,…

I’m not referring to porn. I’m referring to the disparate way in which we treat child female victims of sexual crimes versus adult (or post-puberty) female victims of sexual crimes. I have no issue with a lady who is 18+ and makes an informed choice to appear in porn. I’m concerned about the way the justice system…

Whenever I see stories of child pornography, I’m always kind of baffled at the way we treat preteen girls as victims and vow to get justice, but once the girl hits puberty/is a teenager, she’s suddenly responsible for everything that happens to her and people automatically thinks she’s lying or that her body isn’t…

It’s 39 (going to go down to 32) here in San Jose. I don’t normally turn the heat on when it’s just me and the roomies are gone, but I’m with you — It’s a holiday!

omg wanna steal your doggie.

It does not. Sounds like you’re from my era. Don’t bother. The only songs I recognized were Jimmy Eat World and then a bunch of random songs I don’t know the names of but remember being on the radio in 2000-2002

Blake <3333

Screaming infidelities?

Except…most of the “emo” songs are not what I would define as emo. They’re at that tail end of when the genre hit mainstream and was more pop music with a bit of pop punk and no originality. But hey! I started going to small Hollywood clubs at the ripe ol’ age of 12 in 1996 to see punk/emo/indie bands play — I’m a…

I see/talk to the few people I care to converse with, but the rest of them? Eh. The problem is that no matter where I go when I come home, I run into someone (a small city in West Los Angeles, even!). I purposefully skipped my 10 year reunion 3 years ago, and will be skipping every other one.

Actually, after men who have sex with other men, black women and IV drug users are the most at risk. But hey, we don’t keep black women from donating blood!

I can’t really handle much beyond simple sweaters, simple plain tees, and camis from LB. They were A LOT worse when I was in HS and college, though, and I couldn’t buy anything there. However, their idea of trendy is trashy junk that I will never touch.

My Stick is in my suitcase and travelled to LA with me for Thanksgiving. Yeaaaaah <3

This so much. If you’re going to treat me dreadfully, and hurt me on purpose, fuck you — you aren’t family anymore. My mother and I are very much like this, but my brother is the kind of person that forgives a person over and over again because he wants peace or he has some notion of how things could or should be. I’m…