I like money better than people. People can so rarely be exchanged for goods and/or services!

Willow ,'Showtime'


Natter 63: Life after PuppyCam  

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.


Sue - Feb 10, 2009 8:27:50 am PST #5950 of 30000
hip deep in pie

It's two hours since I've had lunch and I am hungry again. Also, today needs to move faster.


Jessica - Feb 10, 2009 8:42:11 am PST #5951 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

High five escalator!


SailAweigh - Feb 10, 2009 8:48:27 am PST #5952 of 30000
Nana korobi, ya oki. (Fall down seven times, stand up eight.) ~Yuzuru Hanyu/Japanese proverb

Ha! I love the way the faces go from puzzled to smiling as they go higher. I think that would make my day if I saw it on my way to/from work.


beth b - Feb 10, 2009 8:54:02 am PST #5953 of 30000
oh joy! Oh Rapture ! I have a brain!

grim to puzzled to big smiles. So cool . I make my story time kids give me a high 5 as they leave. -- The ones that have no idea get such a kick out of it by the end.


Amy - Feb 10, 2009 9:15:42 am PST #5954 of 30000
Because books.

High five escalator!

Aw! That was my old stop! Go Rob!


Jessica - Feb 10, 2009 9:41:01 am PST #5955 of 30000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset

Want!


Typo Boy - Feb 10, 2009 9:42:05 am PST #5956 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

then she not only lied about it under oath, she got one of her employees to lie as well

To be exact she lied not under oath. If she said exactly what she was convicted of saying she lied by omission (which both morally is lying, and legally is a crime - deliberate deception meeting both moral and legal standards). But our knowledge of what was said comes from a notebook scribbled by interviewer. No third party, no tape recording. I really think conviction for something like this should require more stringent evidence than taking an interested party's word. I'm not really sympathetic to Stewart because on the whole I suspect she did exactly what she was convicted of. But I'm troubled by how weak the evidence on which someone can be convicted for this. Then again I remember lobbying alongside an ACLU lawyers against the criminal code reform which included this provision specifically on grounds that this sort of thing was likely to happen.


Tom Scola - Feb 10, 2009 9:44:29 am PST #5957 of 30000
Remember that the frontier of the Rebellion is everywhere. And even the smallest act of insurrection pushes our lines forward.

Basically, Martha Stewart was convicted of speaking to the Feds without a lawyer present.


Typo Boy - Feb 10, 2009 9:50:21 am PST #5958 of 30000
Calli: My people have a saying. A man who trusts can never be betrayed, only mistaken.Avon: Life expectancy among your people must be extremely short.

That is really a good way of putting it.


msbelle - Feb 10, 2009 9:53:08 am PST #5959 of 30000
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb

I remain shocked that a celebrity of her stature went to prison.