Everything I need to know I learn from The Guardian.

Here in the free west we have an enlightened concept of justice.

Tabitha Pollock has been released from an Illinois jail after spending thirty-six years incarcerated for the murder of her three-year-old daughter. Although the deed itself was performed by her then boyfriend, she was convicted of muder in the first degree (and the verdict and sentence were upheld by an appeal court) on the grounds that her failure to stop him was sufficiently culpable. That's not the surprising bit, though. The surprising bit is that she was convicted in spite of having been asleep when it happened.

She was freed after a letter she sent to a university legal clinic prompted action by a law student.

The new version of Lem's Solaris is bound to be crap

Allegedly it's not.