Great Danes are notoriously even-tempered. Although if I suspected someone was about to shoot me, I'd probably bite him.

Right.

But it doesn't say anything about biting, anyhow. I'd think if there was something like that, the article would have mentioned it. (Of course, I'm often caught off guard by inept reporting.)

The only danger I felt from Great Danes in my life was the fear of drowning in drool. I would be most unpleased to have this guy visiting my school. We have to fill out new paperwork every year to work in the school or go on field trips. The judge needs to wear a dog costume.

I was disappointed that they didn't hew closer to Tolkien's original dialogue for the scene between Eowyn and the Witch King

"Begone if you be not deathless!"

Yeah.

Or at least ripping off her helmet and saying, "I am no man. You face a woman!" Damn, the chill I got when I first read that. 'Cause I was young and clueless enough that I still thought Dernhelm was just some soldier, not that it was Eowyn in disguise. I literally sat up in surprise when I read that.

I am so happy someone talked Jackson out of having Arwen pop up at Helm's Deep.

I wouldn't want that man within five feet of my kids. If the judge wanted to teach the man a lesson, he needs to do it some other way--maybe have the guy volunteer at a no-kill shelter cleaning out dog cages or something like that.

What Cashmere said. If community service is part of the sentence, let it fit the crime. Wearing a dog outfit doesn't fit shooting a dog.

Hi kids! I'm Safety Pup! Safety Pup says, 'Never shoot dogs in the head!'

It's a dog shoot dog world ...

For msbelle.

I wouldn't want that man within five feet of my kids. If the judge wanted to teach the man a lesson, he needs to do it some other way--maybe have the guy volunteer at a no-kill shelter cleaning out dog cages or something like that.

In a dog suit!

Have people heard that Judith Regan (the OJ "How I Would Have Killed" book publisher) was fired on Friday?

Rupert Murdoch personally ordered the dismissal of Judith Regan, the publisher of a widely criticized O. J. Simpson book, after he heard reports of a heated conversation Ms. Regan had with a company lawyer on Friday that included comments that were deemed anti-Semitic, according to two people familiar with the News Corporation’s account of the firing.

...

“And then Jane called Rupert and Rupert said he won’t tolerate that kind of behavior,” said one of the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity.

...

The conversation with Mr. Jackson on Friday afternoon was described by sources as heated and confrontational, even for the famously forceful Ms. Regan. Ms. Regan’s alleged comments, which came in the midst of a tense conversation in which she berated Mr. Jackson, were directed at him and Ms. Friedman, who are Jewish, as well as toward other Jews, one of the sources said.

...

Later that day, at the ReganBooks offices on Santa Monica Boulevard in Los Angeles, a stunned Ms. Regan was confronted by security guards who arrived with boxes and ordered her to leave, according to an account by a HarperCollins executive that was confirmed by another person familiar with the situation.

“This came completely out of the blue,” one executive said. “She was completely taken by surprise.”

[link]

A blogger had this to say:

A fitting end, for sure. And it's just like my mom always said: if you sign a book deal with a suspected murderer speculating about how he killed would have killed his victims if he did it, appall the entire nation, and then scream epithets at your Jewish lawyers, you're probably going to get fired.

Heh.

[link]