"no house is safe if it has a gun in it." Well, technically, no house that doesn't have a gun in it is safe either. The illusion of safety is really just most of the time. If another is going (posted to Gloria Steinem's "Organizing Notion")
But see, you're making the most common mistake that people make when talking about mental illness - UNMEDICATED does not mean UNTREATED. I have a very large treatment regime, one that demands a huge amount of my time. I am (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
Thanks everyone for your comments - a few things I have had running through my head: 1.) A lot has been said about the fear that an unmedicated person with MI would be at risk of harming others. The fear (posted to The Right to Choose for the Mentally Ill)
Um, not exactly. I'm a year removed from criminal law, but a defense and excuse are slightly different. a valid claim of self-defense renders the killing not murder. So do the other defenses. They don't remove the fact that you (posted to Disappointing Development in the Trial for Tiller )
I'm inclined to wonder whether part of Coakley's problem with female voters stems from some her past handling of molestation and sexual assault cases. Coakley fought to keep the Amirault family in jail when it was fairly clear that they (posted to Coakley and the Gender Gap)
Yikes! What if I should decide I am morally compelled to stop the death penalty by bombing the compound where convicted terrorists are held? I suspect the justice system wouldn't go so easy on me. How ironic that the definition (posted to Disappointing Development in the Trial for Tiller )
I've heard of Brown: he is a idiot!!!! Attacking President Obama for being an apparant illegetimate child, because his mom (God rest her soul)was barely 19 when she had him (posted to Coakley and the Gender Gap)
It was her race to lose and she found a way to lose it--he didn't win, she lost. Her campaign was abysmal and she carries that fatal Democrat trait of believing "I am above Republic mudslinging, the people will see (posted to Coakley and the Gender Gap)
I was NOT rooting for Coakley. Just because someone is a liberal who may hold on to some feminist beliefs does not make them worthy of my vote. She's a horrible person with a bad voting record, in my opinion. (posted to Coakley and the Gender Gap)
Coakley ran a very bad campaign. That's all there was to it. The only campaign element I saw of hers that wasn't either offensive, negative, or completely dull was when Ted Kennedy's wife came out in favor of her, and (posted to Coakley and the Gender Gap)
