Heh. I work, technically, (through a couple levels of company-holding) for an insurance company. And contract through them to work for a drug company. There's plenty of evil to spread around, in that!

But the actual job-ness that I do, I feel is good. And I feel free to hate the insurance provided by the company I work for, so I have no problem with others hating on them. I occasionally will correct people when they are flat-out wrong on how some stuff works, about how drug companies do things in re: testing drugs, but...doesn't mean I disagree in how there is evil in some other bits of the business model. Lord knows there's a reason I'm not in the sales part of the company. Not enough showers in the universe.

Speaking of jobs you have and how you relate to them, it seems that Mark Paul Gosselaar might cry his way through his new series. But it's the law I want to comment on. In this week's episode, a defendant was found not guilty of the felony with which he was charged, but guilty of the associated felony weapons possession charge. Both the DA and the defender argued that the second charge is no longer a felony but a misdemeanour, so sentencing should be reduced appropriately. The judge argues that the jury made their decision, and this is what process dictates--obviously we're to feel for the the defendant, but later on they seem to want us to have capacity for feeling for the judge's methods (if not her madness). Is she on crack, or reasonable?

God, I can't believe I just typed all that about the show.

Owen gets off the school bus.

Today was his second day of school. I took him yesterday because the bus was REALLY late (crazy scheduling) and I wanted to talk to his teachers again, anyway.

You know, I don't care if it makes me look less than proactive, but I'm not waiting outside of the men's room for my boss to come out, on the chance that's where he is. Just no.

I may have survived today. Saw some error messages I really don't like just as I was leaving. Oh, and other people broke 1/4 the system. So that's not working. I don't know how more emphatically we could say, two days ago: "We can't make it work until you give us X. It's broken. We need X." To which the proper reply is not,two days later, "Oh, do you really need X? We'll get to it. Tomorrow."

ita, I'm not sure I'm remembering this right but did they bring up that argument immediately or only after they'd "proven" that the acquittal was just when the other guy came up? If the felony status of the weapons charge depended on him being convicted of the rape, then how would the jury have even had the option to convict on the latter but not the former? But I have no idea how that would actually work in process.

My biggest takeaway from the show was so, you've set up your protagonist as a whiny, self-centered borderline racist with a temper. Plus bad hair. How's that gonna work out for you?

I have a few choice words for Apple right now, if it would help?

I can add a few, too. My PowerBook just went down for the count for the second time in 6 months. I don't know when I'm going to have the time to take it for repairs and I don't know how I'm going to be able to work without it. The last time the logic board went bad, this time? who knows but it is acting exactly the same way...argh!

Owen getting off bus has killed me ded.

Owen getting off bus has killed me ded.

::falls down ded next to GG::

So often I find myself yelling internally at the screen for characters to brush their hair. Raising the Bar is no exception.

Brenda, the public defender brought it up right after the verdict, and the ADA chick agreed with him after the found the correct perp (which, really, irrelevant, no?). I'd have thought that it'd be another note from the judge that you can't have an associated felony possession charge without an actual felony. Since that's what turned out to be true, no?

Owen gets off the school bus.

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