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Had to share this. Keep watching to get the whole gist.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DN-r-Gd7BAg

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Recently, I discovered that what I'd assumed was a common sense -- was not completely common. Maybe, it is more common than not, or maybe not. I can't know. To be utterly apprised, I'd have to interview every human being. It's possible, I guess.  I'd then have to provide copies of… Read full post »

 Emma Peel's own words, from yesterday.

FYI, I didn't even know who Tig was until you came along and I don't happen to like her brand of humour. I don't support her in any way. YOU attacked me and I responded. That is what brought what I… Read full post »

Nancy Grace as illustrated by Lauren Spitzberg

Nancy Grace, will be our master of ceremonies for this post:  former corrupt prosecutor in Georgia,vengeance junkie, exculpatory evidence despiser, and guilty as charged advocate, Nancy Grace, will introduce her peers in malicious prosec… Read full post »

HLN( or, for the long winded, Head Line News) is on Verdict Watch.

After all this time, the poor jurors can commiserate and deliberate, and soon the watchers will, barring a hung jury, get a verdict. I sense there is a very cozy "lockdown," in some studio in New York.… Read full post »

Kosher Salami has noted that two whole spinoffs were engendered by Mr. Apisa's initial post. Here's a third! Kosher Salami expresses a sort of derisive dismay that the message to stop whining on your blogs, google a lobotomy specialist, and move on, has met with any debate whatsoever. The proposition… Read full post »

One doesn’t have to be an expert to agree that criminal trials are a serious business. Add the death penalty to the equation, and you have super serious business. Any proceeding that might deprive the defendant of liberty, and the victim of a just… Read full post »

I wake up this morning and feel not so happy again. Not so smile on lip(s) I wanna write piece on expert witnesses in criminal trial and how a Dr. Kaushal Sharma he falsify reports for prosecution and put crazy faces on death row and he then put innocent and sane… Read full post »

The other day, the uncle, Ruslan Tsarni, of the murderous Tsarnaev brothers, made an unrehearsed statement to the press. He referred to his now notorious nephews, as "losers." He said something about how they were always petty and jealous. Lousy characters.

A reporter piped up, "Did you just call th… Read full post »

First came the mother,whose parenting skills will forever be in question.  

Then, came the accused murderess, who took the stand for what seemed like a good few years. She lied lots and cried some. She remembered a lot but forgot the twenty nine stabs and the gun shot. She made… Read full post »

The same old drill. The same old tropes. The same old exhausted reactions. " Murder of innocents, America the beautiful being attacked for its beauty," cry the Right. " Tit for tat, quid pro quo, reap what we sow,woe is us, and our sins," cry the Left.

Predictions followed with… Read full post »

Sometimes, I'm sure enough is enough. But, there is always more. 

http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/14/showbiz/bieber-anne-frank/index.html

I don’t remember many stories revolving around the taking of tests. I remember about six test related stories that seem interesting . I’m convinced that each story would have meaning beyond the literal to maybe make an interesting blog post. One particular story feels share-worthy in… Read full post »

Rick Warren's son shot himself to death. Many on OS, and elsewhere, might show only compassion, publicly, but inside they might see his death as failure to "do the work."  With all the meds and therapy this kid could afford... How could he be so clueless? 

I see this mentality… Read full post »

“Mommy,  isn’t it just too much to know that our government tried to bury me alive in Patton. No Bail and no reason for jail for a month?Now, the Melissa Balin case and Brandon Raub case, and possibly the Coyote Shivers thing,  and no massive  press coverage or ACLU or FBI?/… Read full post »

I’m finding it very interesting that five years ago, I would be so much more in line with Frank Apisa’s thinking. Five years ago, I would view Libbyliberal as a loon. No offense, Libby.

 Five years ago, I was a non- political Patriot. I wasn’t a rah rah jingoist. I/… Read full post »

Years ago, I would not have believed that I'd get to witness Nancy Grace, sans insane barette, dancing the paso doble on primetime. I never thought I'd see her bountiful bosoms either.

Soon thereafter she began sporting a barette, every single day, as she railed agianst any rating g… Read full post »

Reading LHeure Bleue's newest post:

http://open.salon.com/blog/lheure_bleue/2013/03/16/failing_at_suicide_or_living_with_mental_illness

Inspired me to write this post. Lheure is one of my favorite OS folks.

Aside of the sympathy it inspired, I wanted to tell her that so much of it is bullshit,… Read full post »

Three recent well written and received blog posts have sparked commentary. Each were very different but all involved the theme of Motherhood, or lack thereof.

One by Bellwether Vance http://open.salon.com/blog/bellwethervance/2013/03/04/the_empty_next

One by Starshine Roshell

http://open.salon.com/… Read full post »

As a verbose woman (from a long lineage of the long winded,) I will write and write and write this post as a means to promote prolixity. In short, (ahem…) I want to encourage all those laconic Lennys to access their inner chatty Cathys'. Laconic Lenny, is “lol stfu,” all… Read full post »

 Kosher Salami alerted me/us that Steele Breeze started an open call ,where we are to choose our best post or the post we think is best. This got me to thinking that of the hundreds(I think) of posts I've written for OS, I am only truly proud of four: A fake Footloose… Read full post »

Trig has posed two requirements for his upchuck open call.  We must rate our vomiting from a scale of  1 to 10, and then tell a spew related story.

Trig appears to have been inspired/ provoked by a recent cover story/international scoop that featured a fifty something vomit v… Read full post »

I’ve written about twenty manifestos about corruption in the LAPD . I have put such "rambling" screeds in writing over and over again.I never would want to seem like a victim and don’t like the word "victim" anywhere near my name, but I know that my family and I have been… Read full post »