Because, as it stands, there is no way in hell I am going to be able to study the Rape section of Crim Law without setting my textbook on fire.

Some men are sick, sick bastards. Really, they are. It's disgusting. And these judges, who are also men, educated as they might be, are also sick or just stupid, more likely.

( Coerced sex of any kind is not a 'manly' thing to do. )

I'm not wild about tempting the wrath of the whatever from high atop the thing. Every time I see an article or anything about how Obama's poll numbers are on the rise and how his chances are looking better, i feel the urge to tell that person to go outside, turn around three times and spit (and curse) so as not to jinx it ( Read more... )

Have just read yet another article criticizing Obama for being an 'Ivy League elitist'.
I swear I don't think anything makes me so angry as this use of Ivy League as a pejorative. Don't we want people to study hard so they can get a good education? Isn't education a good thing? Are parents upset when their kids go to Harvard or Yale or ( Read more... )

I wasn't. I under-estimated how EVIL JKR is ( Read more... )

"Joy cometh in the morning," scripture tells us. I hope so. I don't know if life would be worth living if it didn't... All I know for sure, all I know for certain, is that [he wasn't] born wanting to do this. There's evil in the world. There'll always be, and we can't do anything about that. But there's violence in our schools, too much mayhem in ( Read more... )

Oh God, spare me from these atrocious Jane Austen adaptations!!! And now to see my dear, dear 'Persuasion' so butchered and my dearly admired Anne and Captain Wentworth turned into such idiots!!! Oh it's cruel.
My one enjoyment is seeing GilesAnthony Stewart Head acting again. Pity the script can't do justice to his ability.

( Ugh ugh ugh. Damn the people who made this version to a slightly lower circle of hell than the one which I'm sure Patricia Rozema and the people who made the 2005 P&P and the ITV 'Mansfield Park' are condemned to. )

Interrogation Methods Rejected by Military win Bush's SupportWell now, isn't this just lovely? /sarcasm. Not surprising considering that everything the BDI has done has shown that he regards the laws, both domestic and international, as only being an obstacle to his getting and doing whatever he wants. What does it say about him that ( Read more... )

Saw PotC2. In a word, meh.
( Spoilers ahead- ye be warned! )

Just finished reading a new historical fiction, 'A Rose for the Crown' by Anne Easter Smith- another take on Richard III and another English royal love story for the books. (Altho' I think, all in all, I still prefer the love story of John of Gaunt and Katherine Swynford because it's true- and had a much happier ending ( Read more... )

The book, 'The New Killing Fields' has infiltrated my brain in an amazing fashion considering I only skimmed the beginning of it. Of course it was very powerful- but I've had a hard time thinking about anything else. Studying the democratization of Germany after WWII and I keep getting hung up on the Holocaust part of WWII (which isn't ( Read more... )