That's beautiful, Vortex!
Fire bad. Tree pretty.
Buffy ,'Chosen'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
-t - Jul 26, 2006 10:19:13 am PDT #8872 of 10002
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
Jesse - Jul 26, 2006 10:21:49 am PDT #8873 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
you say awesome, I say freaky and antipodal. Whichever, they've been together for 36 years.
I meant I am full of awe that you and they have survived this long!
...just kidding.
Crap. I am now in that point at work where I wait for people to get back to me. People who are not in the office. I guess I could start on the next thing, but eh.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 26, 2006 10:30:14 am PDT #8874 of 10002
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
It's probably my favorite dad story. My mother is a lunatic. I had to hide tampons in my room all during high school.
Because it would be so much less embarrassing to deal with the consequences of their lack than just having the things conveniently on hand?
Aims - Jul 26, 2006 10:32:13 am PDT #8875 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Vortex - Jul 26, 2006 10:34:13 am PDT #8876 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I meant I am full of awe that you and they have survived this long!
heh. it was touch and go for while during my teenage years.
Laura - Jul 26, 2006 11:15:26 am PDT #8877 of 10002
Our wings are not tired.
"PERIOD, PERIOD, PERIOD!!"
Hee.
Yeah, such a surprise that Andrea Yates was/is insane. Such a tragedy.
Aims - Jul 26, 2006 11:18:31 am PDT #8878 of 10002
Shit's all sorts of different now.
No doubt in my mind she was bat-shit craxy, but that doesn't excuse her, and it sure as shit doesn't make her not guilty, even by reason of insanity.
I'm completely and unreasonably angry about this verdict, and I feel like the insanity plea should be completely done away with. There are plenty of bat-shit craxy people (here) that manage to NOT DROWN THEIR CHILDREN.
goes back to angry corner so as not to infect others with it.
erikaj - Jul 26, 2006 11:23:57 am PDT #8879 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
But if she's in the hospital...a state mental ward, she's not getting away with anything. Seriously.
Trudy Booth - Jul 26, 2006 11:24:34 am PDT #8880 of 10002
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
Her (now ex) husband put up the fight for the insanity ruling. From what I've read she'll be locked up forever in a hospital as opposed to a prison.
Nutty - Jul 26, 2006 11:24:34 am PDT #8881 of 10002
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Well, FWIW, there are lots of people who don't fit any standard definition of insane who do awful things to their children, up to and including murder. Every day, and usually don't go to prison for it.
The whole point of an insanity plea is "if I had been in my right mind, I wouln'da done it." (The legal definition of insane is a lack of ability to discern right from wrong.) So, not really an excuse so much as a description of circumstances. Also, IIRC, the worst part of that whole story was that her husband knew she was coming apart at the seams and discouraged her from seeking help for it.