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Jinkies! A court-appointed attorney will never find him. What we need are some teenagers and a great dane in a trippy van . . .
All kidding aside, this borders on the macabre. WTH??
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Looks like she would have gotten away with it, too, if it hadn’t been for those meddling kids.
sigh Couldn’t resist. Again, W.T.H.?
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One of the things that most amazes me about how people perceive the legal system is how people will latch on to a high-profile case and issue streams of pronouncements about who’s right or wrong, or guilty or innocent, as if they knew everything there was to know, when, in fact, they’re just using the case as a vehicle for dealing with some emotional need of their own. This will be a good example. Who the hell knows what’s really going on here? Maybe the kids are evil, maybe Jean is evil, maybe everyone is evil, maybe it’s just a garden variety dispute between relatives over what’s best for the man where both sides have a point but emotions are to high for either side to see it. Who knows? Well, certainly, there’ll be thousands of people on Disqus today who think they do.
The Amanda Knox case is the most recent high profile example of what I’m talking about. The number of people who have gotten themselves deeply, intractably emotionally committed to the belief that she’s some sort of scheming monster who’s guilty! guilty! guilty! is amazing to me. The number of people in Britain and Europe, in particular, who seem convinced that she must be guilty because she’s an American is particularly appalling.
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Sad story… if nothing else, hopefully this serves as a warning to anyone who doesn’t have a living will - get one!
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And then, when they do find him, they’ll pull a mask off of the perp and discover that it’s Mr. McGreedy, the owner of the local amusement park. As they drag him off, he’ll mutter, “You damned kids!”
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“The irony of the Information Age is that it has given new respectability to uninformed opinion.” – John Lawton
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Getting old is hell. I hope this ends well.
Rolling too many Scooby Snacks??
Whichever side is right (assuming either of them is), all of this shuttling around is bound to be taking a toll on Casey Kasem himself. Elderly patients usually suffer when they are moved from a familiar environment, and being shuffled back and forth like a disputed piece of furniture has to make a difficult existence even more miserable.
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Right, but how do we know that she’s not doing as he wished? How do we know he’s not terrified of his kids getting their hooks into him? By the same token, how do we know she’s not an evil bitch who’s isolated him and convinced him to to be afraid of his kids thus getting him to ask her do that which she wants to do?
The Court will hopefully sort all of that out. I’m just noting that there are going to be a lot of folks claiming they know all they need to know and making grand pronouncements.
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