As a mentally ill poor person with a liberal arts degree, I’m fully prepared to recognize and extol the value of education. And I’m slightly amused by your framing, whereby better education delivers something much greater to “those who aren’t mentally ill.” Reality check: mental illness is a fairly predictable…

The idea that the same actress would play Marilyn Monroe AND Janis Joplin is absurd. But at the same time, I wonder how many women who are physically right are even trying to work in the movie business.

Thank you for the clarification. I assumed you were like the other people commenting who didn’t seem to understand the practical logistics of what was being argued. I was just explaining it, not promoting it as a valid defense.

I think unmet mental health care needs is more of a county jail problem because they tend to get arrested for petty crimes and sentenced to less than 6 months. I suspect the best way to prevent those long term prison sentences is better access to jobs that pay a living wage (and, no, “better education” doesn’t deliver…

66 inch waist would suggest a gut that would require more than 2 inches to get clear of.

I thought the most Canadian criminal defense ever was “We were celebrating winning a hockey game. Sorry.”

Ok, reading that opinion, my best guess is that the jury instructions for Parker and Celestin were different despite being charged with the same crime and the appeals court found that to be reversible error. I guess I could see why they wouldn’t publish that, because it’s really more the judge’s fuck up than the…

I’m sure that’s the case sometimes, but I suspect the interplay is all over the place. Sometimes it’s the woman’s ego, feeling like she hasn’t done motherhood right until she produces a son. I also get the impression that some women are secretly pleased by it, that they wanted to have more kids and they know their…

Good thing RBG thinks too highly of herself to retire.

I always assume that when it’s a family with 3+ kids, all girls.

Celestin’s conviction was overturned for ineffective assistance of counsel and I tried to track down the appellate court opinion because I was extremely curious what the argument was. The opinion was not published, which used to be a fairly routine thing back when publishing opinions required actual printing. If an…

Bookmarked to yell at you later.

There is another movie that fits this story, Defiance.

Justice Breyer is the Anne Hathaway of Supreme Court justices. Try-hard is his essence.

Miami in the 90s, but I never turn down an opportunity to promote Mitzi Kapture’s work on Silk Stalkings.

That’s not dark. That’s a good way to go.

I think it’s worth reflecting on why pushback against something men are doing is being directed at women.

The “no makeup” look is fine, but it’s not a “look” nor is it a movement. It’s just your face.

Thank you for reminding me to chuckle, once again, at his attempt to do a Florida accent in Justified.

I love the way Sarah writes about movies. She’s probably the only reviewer out there who can change my mind about seeing/not seeing a movie.