These are judges, remember. They sort out the shit you can't sort out yourself. Lawyers done well, as you will.
Case in Point #1: Stanford Rapist gets 6 Months, Ensuing uproar
I applaud the Jurors, and it looks like maybe something will be done. A shame they can't overturn the sentence.
Case #2 (and this has been going on a while...): http://loweringthebar.net/2016/06/pants-chapter-28.html
Want more? There's too many to list...
"When the days of Anarchy come, we'll run them to the ground with hounds..."
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Well, it's come to that, has it? Bloody hell. Half the time I'm not sure if he's running for President or Assassination. I was rooting for Bernie Sanders, not sure that he could have effected all the changes he aspired to, but he was the best candidate by a long shot.
Now, a choice between Hillary Clinton - corruption and corporate politics all over again. NSA, the continuation of an increasingly distant, uninvolved and unengaged line of politicians. Expect more of the same.
Or the Donald. Narcissistic, a liar, a certified idiot, but the fact that he's in the running, that he's got this much support, well, he's onto something. Would I vote for Donald? No. Never. But a vote for Donald now is a vote for the end of the USA. Hillary, we'll, she'll stay the course, do the right thing by her sponsors (not the voters, never the voters). But Donald, hell, I'm pretty sure if he survives he'll run that train clear off the rails. And maybe they need that, the Americans, the proof of how undemocratic their society has become, the final breaking of everything so they can take it apart and start over. Yeah, you wouldn't want to be an American, but shouldn't the fact that he's even running (or Hillary, or the Bushes, or any of a number of other incompetent, corrupt and otherwise ineligible candidates) suggest this? If I could, I'd be voting Donald, rent a south-facing balcony, pop open a beer and watch the fireworks...
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I'd heard the ad on the radio, Spence Diamonds selling "Diamonds as Unique a you are", a bunch of corny hype pumping up the rarest of diamonds, lab grown, "As old as your relationship", or some such tripe. I was aware of them a few years ago, when they were still being passed off as natural, now comes mainstream acceptance. There's a great deal of romance lost, IMHO, but for the consumer (and not the romantic) it's the perfect way to mark the occasion of your test-tube baby...
Link: http://www.racked.com/2016/6/14/11872830/lab-grown-diamonds-synthetic
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50ish years old and just starting their family. I mean, the owner made that mistake, in his 50's, more kids, now, never the energy to keep up or entertain them. And now a couple of our regular customers - one, his ridiculously young wife, pregnant, there's an imminent divorce and a lifetime's palimony ahead of him, he doesn't see it, doesn't get it, for him it's just proof that he's straight and his family can stop worrying...
...and the other, well, he's not as well heeled, a bit sharper, and you can see the fear on his face as he's out with his very pregnant girlfriend, he's done the math, knows how old he'll be, knows that this is the end of the happy single life as he knew it and to the end of his days he'll be filled with worry and care...
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