This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.

Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'


Natter 37: Oddly Enough, We've Had This Conversation Before.  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


Narrator - Aug 08, 2005 2:19:22 pm PDT #6578 of 10002
The evil is this way?

They? They! They? They! "They" let him go? She did too.

Easy to see how she voted "not guilty." She should just fess up -- she voted to acquit because Jackson's lawyers were better than the prosecution. But then I guess she can't get a book deal out of proving the old adage that a jury is 12 people asked to decide which party has the better lawyer.


tommyrot - Aug 08, 2005 2:21:54 pm PDT #6579 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

IIRC there are now two ex-jurrors who are saying that Michael was guilty. They are the same two jurrors who have book deals. Coincidenc? Or did they figure that a book saying he was guilty would sell better?


Betsy HP - Aug 08, 2005 2:24:14 pm PDT #6580 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

Ya know... the question before a jury trial is not only "Did he do it?" but "Did the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did it?"

I have participated in a trial where the answer to (1) was "Almost certainly yes" and (2) was "No". The only appropriate verdict in such cases is Not Guilty. Otherwise you're substituting your intuition for the law of the land.


tommyrot - Aug 08, 2005 2:31:01 pm PDT #6581 of 10002
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Huh. Quantum information can be negative. So if someone gives you negative quantum information, you end up knowing less.

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Cass - Aug 08, 2005 2:48:46 pm PDT #6582 of 10002
Bob's learned to live with tragedy, but he knows that this tragedy is one that won't ever leave him or get better.

Ya know... the question before a jury trial is not only "Did he do it?" but "Did the prosecution prove beyond a reasonable doubt that he did it?"
I can completely see this. What grates me, perhaps irrationally, is the "They're the ones that let a pedophile go." because they didn't act alone. She voted the same way. But then that doesn't get you the book deal.

Off to the Wild Animal Park. Wish me critters.


Betsy HP - Aug 08, 2005 3:11:09 pm PDT #6583 of 10002
If I only had a brain...

So if someone gives you negative quantum information, you end up knowing less

I've had conversations like that.


Lee - Aug 08, 2005 3:16:33 pm PDT #6584 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

I feel like eating out tonight. Should I go to the Afgan Restaurant that is directly on my way home, or go to Pf Chang's, which is a little out of the way?


billytea - Aug 08, 2005 3:18:59 pm PDT #6585 of 10002
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

Go Afghan, choose Afghan.


Kathy A - Aug 08, 2005 3:22:23 pm PDT #6586 of 10002
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

I've never had Afghan, but it sounds good. Chang's is good (Theodosia and I ate at one here in Chicago last summer), but you can have Chinese just about anytime.


Lee - Aug 08, 2005 3:24:15 pm PDT #6587 of 10002
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

This is very true, but I was just reading that the service at the Afghan place was slow, so I may end up at Changs. Or maybe the Palo Alto creamery.