Park Dietz used to have a good reputation. Hope that one case was worth using it as tissue paper.

erika, are you familiar enough with him to know if there's a chance he consulted on a similar (but not the same) L&O storyline, or other series, and just made a mistake in recalling the particulars? I can't imagine having the chutzpah to lie *like that*. I keep thinking that confusing is more likely than intentional lying in a case like this.

Even if it was "confusion" on his part--it is EASILY checked and should have been double checked before he testified. I can't believe the prosecution wouldn't do that. It's insane. More insane than Andrea Yates, if that's possible.

and then Jon B. showed up, followed by JZ and Hec, and I introduced all 3 of them to my best friend as "those internet people."

JZ's not pregnant either.

But what about YOU? Have you become a Wonder Of Science(TM)?

But I'm glad we were hanging around in the funhouse which is your brain.

I don't know if you were Jon's entourage, or what.

Even if it was "confusion" on his part--it is EASILY checked and should have been double checked before he testified. I can't believe the prosecution wouldn't do that. It's insane.

Oh, yes. Absolutely. I just am trying to figure out the how on his part. That the prosecution didn't watch the frigging episode in question is unbelievable.

I don't know how to file Andrea Yates in my head, so I just don't. She lives in the pile of stuff I don't know how to process. It's a big pile, but she's always right near the top.

But what about YOU?

I am capable of a pregnant pause.

Have you become a Wonder Of Science(TM)?

I actually went with the cut-rate discount Blunder Of Science(TM).

As a matter of historical fact, however, my very existence is dependent on 20th century science.

I actually went with the cut-rate discount Blunder Of Science(TM).

Where, instead of exclaiming "Eureka!", you exclaim "Oh, SHIT!"?

Re: the mysterious Buffista pregnancy.

It is ever so very much not me, thank any God, Goddess, or Combination thereof that might be responsible. While my jeans are a tad tight I can lay that firmly at the door of Too Much Good Chocolate over the past month.

I don't doubt there is a case and he did not pull it out of his ass. However...expert witness? Hello? He should know a little about the testimony thing by now, he makes crapzillions on it. Homicide detectives work hundreds of murders a year for a lot less money and they can't do that. There was a case like that in AYOKS...seasoned detective talking particulars in court, blah de blah.Something strikes the prosecutor wrong. Detective says "Oh, I'm sorry. Wrong murder." Oops. Instant mistrial and bunky retires in a patrol car in the Western District. Don't you hate it when that happens?

When I found out my friend here in town was pregnant I immediately reached to make sure my Ortho Evra patch was firmly in place. It's too soon for me.

Later this year, maybe. Or, uh, not.

Where, instead of exclaiming "Eureka!", you exclaim "Oh, SHIT!"?

More of an Oz-ian, "Huh."