The Off Topic Topic

[MadImmortalMan]

I loaned it to Jaron a few years ago and never got it back.

[Eddie Teach]

Raz speaks from experience.

[Martinus]

America is funny:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDlQ4H0Kdg8

[Eddie Teach]

As much as the woman deserves mockery for thinking she owns a hairstyle, that was a pretty weak-ass "assault".

[Martinus]

As much as the woman deserves mockery for thinking she owns a hairstyle, that was a pretty weak-ass "assault".

But was it stronger than writing Trump 2016 on a pavement?

[Eddie Teach]

Play their game and humanity loses.

[Brazen]

Great lunatic Brit story, but I object to the fact that "selfie" has become shorthand for any photo with the poster in.

'Best selfie ever': Brit who took grinning snap with EgyptAir hijacker speaks out


http://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/best-selfie-ever-brit-who-took-grinning-snap-with-egyptair-hijacker-speaks-out-a3213806.html

[Martinus]

 

[Josquius]

That is insane.
Must have realised the guy was a nutter.

And yes. .... thats a strange use of the word selfie. Already a hateful word in its own right.

[DGuller]

Yeah, I realize the guy was under a lot of stress, but that's no excuse to forget the meaning of words.  Asking a stranger to take a picture of you with someone else has been practiced for many decades before selfies became technologically practical.

[DGuller]

Sometimes in death penalty cases where the guilt seems questionable on the surface, I wonder how so many levels of justice can be so determined in keeping the people on death row.  And then I come across stories like this:  http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/30/dallas-accountant-faces-execution-daughters-deaths/, and it makes it obvious to me. 

No matter the case, no matter how obvious the guilt, there will always be lawyers snowing the court with bullshit about why death penalty would be a grave injustice in their case.  After a while, all such challenges must lose their credibility, and look like indiscriminate Hail Mary passes.  It must suck for the really innocent guy who got put on the death row, who can't get a fair re-hearing because of pieces of shit like the guy above.

[Josquius]

In prison everyone is innocent

[PDH]

Those who cannot remember the past are doomed to repaint it.

[Barrister]

Sometimes in death penalty cases where the guilt seems questionable on the surface, I wonder how so many levels of justice can be so determined in keeping the people on death row.  And then I come across stories like this:  http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/30/dallas-accountant-faces-execution-daughters-deaths/, and it makes it obvious to me. 

No matter the case, no matter how obvious the guilt, there will always be lawyers snowing the court with bullshit about why death penalty would be a grave injustice in their case.  After a while, all such challenges must lose their credibility, and look like indiscriminate Hail Mary passes.  It must suck for the really innocent guy who got put on the death row, who can't get a fair re-hearing because of pieces of shit like the guy above.

I believe it's called compassion fatigue.

[DGuller]

Sometimes in death penalty cases where the guilt seems questionable on the surface, I wonder how so many levels of justice can be so determined in keeping the people on death row.  And then I come across stories like this:  http://www.texastribune.org/2016/03/30/dallas-accountant-faces-execution-daughters-deaths/, and it makes it obvious to me. 

No matter the case, no matter how obvious the guilt, there will always be lawyers snowing the court with bullshit about why death penalty would be a grave injustice in their case.  After a while, all such challenges must lose their credibility, and look like indiscriminate Hail Mary passes.  It must suck for the really innocent guy who got put on the death row, who can't get a fair re-hearing because of pieces of shit like the guy above.

I believe it's called compassion fatigue.

I don't think it's that necessarily.  It's just that how do you know that the claims of reasonable doubt on the conviction are credible, and not just the clump of shit that stuck out of hundreds that were thrown?  Along the way, I imagine it's easy to assume that all claims of reasonable doubt are just turds that happened to stick, and not legitimate cases of unethical prosecutors meeting incompetent defense lawyers meeting dumb juries evaluating incomplete evidence.