Everything I need to know I learn from The Guardian.

[zotz]

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.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

*boggle*
remind me not to sleep with/around murderers.

[devilgate.livejournal.com]

America is transcendentally mad.

We know a song about that, too ;-)

[zotz]

What, only one? (etc)

[nmg.livejournal.com]

About the only thing that's certain about the new version of Solaris is that it is going to be shorter than the Tarkovsky version. I trust Stephen Soderbergh enough that I'm fairly sure that there won't be any "George Clooney in blazing two gun action" sequences. I hope.

[swisstone.livejournal.com]

We're very careful to have one song per subject, but have lots of subjects.

[ladycat.livejournal.com]

It's not just the states, I think you'd be surprised at the lack of just and righteous action going on in the UK too. Civilised? I hadn't noticed.

[zotz]

The Guardian review was very complimentary. If it's to be trusted, then it sound slike I'll like it a lot. Of course, as it's a Hollywood remake I ought to refuse to see it on principle, but that might be a nose/face thing.

[zotz]

All it means is that we live in cities. It's accurate enough on that basis.

We're compromising our rights because of their actions - the terrorists have already won. We are turning into them.

Every day I wake up and Yitzhak Rabin is still dead.

[lovingboth]

Well, British courts had someone hanged for their part in a death despite the fact that they were under arrest at the time and someone else actually killed the victim, of course.

Someone's remaking the film? Or is this a reference to sleeping and death...