I t heart erika.

I've been relating to this whole issue almost entirely in L&O terms.

ION, the NYTimes is totally bogarting the on-line crossword puzzle. I need my fix, man.

A not-very-interesting article about people who investigate car fires: [link]

Except for these last two paragraphs:

As Mr. Newell tells it, cocaine traffickers transported drugs across the country in the fuel tank of a Ford Expedition. When they arrived at their destination in suburban Atlanta, the plastic bags that held the contraband, dripping with gasoline, were tossed into a clothes dryer.

"The explosion blew both of these geniuses out the front door," he said.

I can just barely see how they mightn't realise that the gasoline in the dryer was a bad idea. Barely. But plastic bags full of drugs in a dryer? How could that be useful?

Except in L&O, we'd find out that Michael's judgement *shouldn't* count because he Klaused her. He'd be weeping on Skoda's shoulder already and the state of NY would have bought itself a million-dollar cauliflower.

Doesn't every dryer have a warning printed on it somewhere about not dryng things that may have gasoline on them? I know I've read it on a number of dryers while I was bored waiting for laundry.

Doesn't every dryer have a warning printed on it somewhere about not dryng things that may have gasoline on them?

The pay ones I've used certainly do.

I think we have new candidates for the Darwin Awards. Also, people who never tried to dry sneakers in the dryer, or else they'd know that some things do not belong in a dryer whether or not they are dripping with gasoline. Hello! (Reason #375 it's a good thing suburban moms have not yet been recruited en masse into the drug trade.)

P.s. How cute is it that erika coins the verb "Klaused" without needing to explain it? Very cute. And it is exactly what L&O would do.

Timelies. WELCOME MALLORY JAMES!

I haven't been able to find the text of the law this morning, do we have any idea how it was worded, or how far reaching it is? Is it specific to the Schiavo case, or can federal judges now reach into all our lives and decide any important decision by fiat?

A not-very-interesting article about people who investigate car fires:

Did any of the investigators say something to the effect of "on a long enough timeline, the survival rate for eveyone drops to zero"?

The pay ones I've used certainly do.

The one in my apartment does, too. Read that one while looking for a model number when it wasn't working. I'm pretty sure I read a similar warning on my mom's dryer, as well, though I don't recall the circumstances.

"Cute" is gonna be my new favorite way of describing "aberrant" from now on Nutty. But it's true, I trusted y'all to follow me in it.(We all know Klaus did it, don't we?! Although maybe those guys are in the wind with OJ's real killers. Uh huh.)