I don't have a general answer to this question, but either the court or a guardian, for the most part, makes the decisions.

Yeah, I was actually going at that rhetorically, which probably wasn't clear. Connie's original point was more about the ethics of taking this course, rather than the legality, I think. That's the part that's a lot harder to answer.

Always nice to feel loved.

I hear you're going back to the gym. I started excersizing, too.

Hi Thomash!

Yay exercise! How's Tuckson?

I'm of two minds on this one (no pun intended.) From a civil liberatarian point of view, a person should never be forced to be sane as long as they're willing to suffer the consequences, i.e. remaining locked up forever. But if they are never sane, they can't evaluate whether they'd rather be insane.

Maybe they should give folks drugs to make them sane long enough to decide whether they'd rather stand trial or stay insane indefinitely.

Hi Perkins.

Tucson is warm and sunny. I am enjoying the swimming pool and my little studio apartment. But I do miss my friends something awful. The weekly poker tournaments at the bar down the road help a little bit. And the people I work with are nice.

Tucson is warm and sunny. I am enjoying the swimming pool and my little studio apartment.

Grr. Argh.

Maybe they should give folks drugs to make them sane long enough to decide whether they'd rather stand trial or stay insane indefinitely.

That's kind of my thinking. On the one hand, I'm squicked by the idea of forcibly altering someone's mental state. On the other, she did commit a crime and thereby forfeited a good chunk of rights. I guess I'd come down for medicating her for at least the hearing, in order to ensure that she had a fair shot at understanding what was happening.

eta: Also, if she wasn't medicated and she stood trial and was convicted and then at a later date returned to her sanity, couldn't she sue the state for not making sure she comprehended the charges?

Hey folks, I've got what I think is a Wonderfalls quote rattling around my brain, and I need a little help with it. I think it might be Jaye, and it goes: "Never been/had a [blank] before." I know that's vague, but that's all I've got. The rest of it's tone of voice and head movement, so I can't help there. The really annoying thing is that I've had this same quote bugging me before, and identified it... and now I've forgotten again.

Never been/had a [blank] before

Oh man, it's....it's....

mentor? role model? Something like that. It's from Karma Chameleon, when she's talking on the couch with the other girl.