OK, you know how scientists are arguing about how many planets we have?
yeah, two scientists got into a little pissing match on NPR last night. Very amusing.
Actually, I was thinking it would be sort of like a pet. You know, we could...we could name her Trixie, or Miss Kitty Fantastico, or something.
Tara ,'Empty Places'
Natter 46: The FIGHTIN' 46
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.
Vortex - Aug 17, 2006 9:50:27 am PDT #3202 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Glamcookie - Aug 17, 2006 9:50:48 am PDT #3203 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Gloom, they can't say that he raped her unless HE says it, or he's found guilty of it in a court of law. It's a libel issue.
Seriously??? He can say he had sex with a six-year-old and and we can't call it rape? t boggling
Vortex - Aug 17, 2006 9:51:45 am PDT #3204 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
They could say that he "statutorily raped" her, I suppose.
tommyrot - Aug 17, 2006 9:52:10 am PDT #3205 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Compare that with the Bible, which tells us that Earth was created on the first day, and the Sun was created on the fourth day. (What did Earth circle around the first three days, Professor Smartypants?)
Wow. I give! I bow to the superior logic and the use of the phrase "Professor Smartypants."
Now I wanna ask the guy, "If there was no sun, just the earth, how could there be days, Non-professor Stupidpants?"
Topic!Cindy - Aug 17, 2006 9:54:26 am PDT #3206 of 10001
What is even happening?
Vortex, what about molested, because damn.
tommyrot - Aug 17, 2006 9:56:50 am PDT #3207 of 10001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Vortex, what about molested, because damn.
Yeah, I'm curious about how much a newspaper can infer from his statement... can they say his confession is, say, "tantamount to a confession of rape" or something?
Jessica - Aug 17, 2006 9:57:12 am PDT #3208 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
They could say that he "statutorily raped" her, I suppose.
That was going to be my next question -- when it's a clear-cut case of statutory rape (at minimum), is it still libel to say so? (Since saying "statutory rape" doesn't define anything legally except for their respective ages.)
Kathy A - Aug 17, 2006 9:57:46 am PDT #3209 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
These wackjobs hating "heliocentrism" (gee, everything is relative, isn't it?) just make me want to call for Buzz Aldrin to deck the guy, just like he did the Flat Earther a few years back.
Fred Pete - Aug 17, 2006 9:58:22 am PDT #3210 of 10001
Ann, that's a ferret.
He can say he had sex with a six-year-old and and we can't call it rape?
As I understand it, the media have to be more careful at this point. Which is why the word "alleged" appears so often in stories of this kind.
But I pegged this guy as hopelessly creepy when the media said that he said he loved her.
amych - Aug 17, 2006 9:59:10 am PDT #3211 of 10001
Now let us crush something soft and watch it fountain blood. That is a girlish thing to want to do, yes?
I think the heliocentrism thing was meant as snark.