AIDS relief for Africa.

The purpose behind statute of limitations was to take away the power of vindictive or corrupt government officials to use crimes as a political tool; there’s no reason that rape charges can’t be used that way, and in fact they were used exactly that way in the South against black men for 100+ years.

Cognitive dissonance.

The past two cinematic interpretations of Lex Luthor have been so bad that they ruined their respective movies. So this one probably can’t be any worse.

To be fair, Atticus’ trial strategy wasn’t particularly good.

Or that’s what the narrator heard happened; what actually happened was not “seen.”

That would only make sense if they decided to focus on food from the Caucasus region of Eurasia.

I wonder how they are going to fit Wonder Woman in it; I’d think they’d have the same problem as Marvel did with Thor in terms of tone, believability, etc. Marvel just emphasized the sciencey/parallel dimension aspect and barely pulled it off.

If she’s super-invulnerable, her skin is going to be stronger than any armor. If it can get through her skin, the armor wouldn’t have stopped it.

I wonder how much of the shock and anger over Finch’s dark side is driven not by what people remember from the book, but from Gregory Peck’s performance in the movie.

White people (and I am a white person, and I certainly sometimes tend towards this before I realize it and stop myself) assume that if we were raised in that milieu we would buck the system and be a beacon of tolerance and justice but you are completely right.

People in general — not just liberal whites — have a tendency to become more conservative as they age. It’s likely driven largely by fear.

Because he’d have to commit perjury to do so.

It may be an abuse of discretion but it is not wildly illegal; courts can find non-parties in contempt. And standing isn’t really the right word; parties have standing, judges exercise jurisdiction.

I’m an attorney as well that that doesn’t sound right. American judges have long had the power to issue orders to non-parties and find them in contempt (whether an order has been entered or not). Now it might be an abuse of that power, but that doesn’t mean the power, generally, doesn’t exist.

The judge issued the order, apparently against his wishes. He can’t get them out on his own except if, as the judge puts it, tells her his son wants to have a relationship with him; theoretically he could just lie about that to the judge but that would likely be perjury.

What about the part where the judge acknowledges the father, and I quote, “begged me not to. he beggged me not to.” send the children there?

Yes there is something wrong with Aspartame. The taste. Sucralose tastes so much better.

He’s a cat; cats are Republicans.

Definitely sounds like she went over the line; I would be curious as to find what exactly happened in the past to turn the judge against the mom. I’m guessing the latter is not completely blameless (though taking it out on the kids seems a little much).