Yeah, there is a court decision that says cops can lie their asses off to get confessions...I looked it up for a fanfic but I forget. ETA: Terry McClarney, who is a Baltimore detective that David Simon is a big fanboy of, says that the biggest change in law enforcement in twenty years is that cops can tell a cornerboy they found epithelial cells(sp) and the cornerboy will feel screwed. I freaked out on my father when he suggested my brother handle his DUI without an attorney. I'm not sure that even whiteboy justice is that good. My dad doesn't watch enough TV sometimes.

Yes, the police are allowed to lie to a suspect in an attempt to coerce a confession, decided in Frazier v. Cupp.

So an unopened condom can be linked to the box in your bedroom.

Moral of the story? Use 'em up, people!

Moral of the story? Use 'em up, people!

Or, not at all, I guess. You are the bad guy, after all.

Hey, how did someone get busted by condom?

It broke?

Map of the World in Which Countries Are Weighted by the Number of Languages They Have Produced

Wow. Go teams Indonesien and Papua-Nya Guinea.

I think the deal with Papua-Nya Guinea is there's a whole bunch of tribes living in the rain forest completely isolated from each other. Oh wait, the caption confirms this:

Deep valleys and unforgiving terrain have kept the different tribes of Papua New Guinea relatively isolated, so that the groups’ languages are not blended together but remain distinct. While the country is thought to have over 800 living languages, some, like Abaga, are spoken by as few as five(!) people.

My father realized the other day that he has in fact outlived his term life insurance. Any guesses what it costs to insure a 70 year old man with a history of heart attacks? Yeah. So I have a couple of days to figure out what to do about that. He certainly can't afford what they want - even at the old rate it was a struggle on his combo of Veteran's disability, SS, and seasonal part-time job.

Have you checked to see if he can get life insurance through the VA? My dad had a Veteran's policy that my sister and I split after he died. He was a WWII vet, and I don't know if the potential benefits differ depending on when one served, though. Still, it might be worth exploring.

My grandmother was saying recently she had let go of some burial insurance thing she had -- just $5K or something. So she was talking about whatever other insurance she still has, and kept saying, "So I'll get $XX." I was like, NO YOU WON'T GET IT. She was like, "What are you talking about? I get $XX from that, and blah blah blah." Finally, I said, You won't get it because you'll be DEAD! WE'LL GET IT!!" Oh yeah, she said.

In semi-related news, I got a pen in my Christmas stocking from the local funeral home. Thanks, Santa.

I lost sleep over it!

I had a few sleepless moments over it too. Perhaps it is some small comfort to Qi that even now someone shudders over her fate.

Plus! The cops totally exploit the ignorance

Well, if the ignorance is just laying there...

The police also did some good detective work with the CSI unit. Did you know that condoms come in lot numbers? Yep. So an unopened condom can be linked to the box in your bedroom.

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