This is not funny. This... this is a morality tale about the evils of sake.

Simon ,'Objects In Space'


Natter Area 51: The Truthiness Is in Here  

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.


Dana - May 18, 2007 11:19:11 am PDT #8142 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

We heard from the guy who had taken an oral swab of the defendant's mouth. (Which apparently is just like they show it on CSI, except better lit.)

We heard from the policeman who (I think) spoke to the victim at the hospital, and who definitely showed her the photo spread.

I think that's most or all of the witnesses we heard from the first day. The prosecution rested, and we were sent home.

The next morning, we walked in, and the defense rested without putting any witnesses on the stand. The defense lawyer had cross-examined several of the prosecution's witnesses. He pointed out the fact that the apartment was dark, since it was 3AM and the lights were off. He gave the DNA technician some hell about the widely publicized problems the Houston crime lab had in the recent past. He pointed out that of the six pictures in the photo spread, the defendant's was the darkest in terms of background.

We were pretty damn surprised that they rested without putting on a case, at least I was. At that point, we were read the charges, and the attorneys made their arguments.

The defense said that identification rested on a questionable photo spread, and an eyewitness account from a year and a half ago (when the crime occurred). The apartment was dark, things happened quickly. As for DNA, the lab had had plenty of problems before, where cases had to be overturned and tests had to be outsourced.

The prosecution said that if we believed the victim, there was no question that the defendant was guilty.

We went out into the jury room. It took about ten minutes for us to agree he was guilty. This was midmorning Thursday, and we moved on to the punishment phase.


Dana - May 18, 2007 11:20:51 am PDT #8143 of 10001
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Sheeit. So the woman who was (allegedly) raped had to do this all through interpreters too? What a horrific mess.

Yeah. The interpreter was in the room, speaking into a mike, and the defendant had headphones on. When Spanish-speaking witnesses were on the stand, the translator stood next to them, and the headphones came off. He was very good. That's got to be a difficult job.


Allyson - May 18, 2007 11:24:19 am PDT #8144 of 10001
Wait, is this real-world child support, where the money goes to buy food for the kids, or MRA fantasyland child support where the women just buy Ferraris and cocaine? -Jessica

Boo hoo. I forgot to bring my leftover Indian food for lunch. Now, Hungry and Lazy are in a fight to the death. I don't want to go get something, but my stomach is screaming.

Also, they put cilantro on my garlic basil naan with NO WARNING.


§ ita § - May 18, 2007 11:27:07 am PDT #8145 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I'm going to grab some fries (my gorge rose just typing that and I had difficulty swallowing the water for my pills) under the theory that if I can't eat them, I can't eat anything and might as well crawl under a rock and wither away.

Yeah. Exactly.

Though I do wish someone would bring me naan.


P.M. Marc - May 18, 2007 11:28:33 am PDT #8146 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear

Also, they put cilantro on my garlic basil naan with NO WARNING.

Bastards!


sarameg - May 18, 2007 11:29:50 am PDT #8147 of 10001

Maybe Hungry can kill Lazy and cannibalize....ok, that just sounds weird.


Daisy Jane - May 18, 2007 11:30:49 am PDT #8148 of 10001
"This bar smells like kerosene and stripper tears."

mmmmm, cilantro. I had cilantrolicious salsa today at lunch.


Lee - May 18, 2007 11:31:13 am PDT #8149 of 10001
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

Also, they put cilantro on my garlic basil naan with NO WARNING.

Even as a cilantro fan, that seems wrong.


Matt the Bruins fan - May 18, 2007 11:34:16 am PDT #8150 of 10001
"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

See, apparently he’s not. He just looked that way on the show. Or else DB is also not as tall as I’d been assuming.

I can personally vouch for DB being about an inch taller than me—I’m 5’ 11.5”. And unlike certain other persons in this picture who shall remain nameless, he wasn’t wearing cowboy boots with heels like those the members of KISS wear onstage.


Kathy A - May 18, 2007 11:34:53 am PDT #8151 of 10001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil

Looks like just about everyone's cleared out for the day from my department, and it's only 3:30! I think I'll see if I can leave about 5:00 or so (90 minutes early); I wouldn't, normally, but the files I need to work with are on the server that's currently going through some serious hardware problems, and has been all afternoon. I could work on some other stuff, but I don't wanna.