You know sometimes I get the idea that I don't always think things through all the way. I get a really big tat on my back on Wednesday. I get another one on Saturday on my chest. It's already hard to get comfortable and yet I put a deposit down for a 3rd on my right shoulder on Tuesday. This is what happens when you do what I described above.

FWIW the pain from a tattoo on your chest is not an illusion. I didn't flinch or ask for a break because my old lady was with me and I had to act like a macho-man but god damn that hurt- and not in a good way. Then again everybody is different. My brother is sleeved from his shoulder to his forearm (including the inside of his arm which is supposed to be brutal)- at least 20 hours of work and it didn't bother him at all. Then he started to get one on his left calf and made the guy stop before he could not even finish the outline because it hurt so bad. He's still working up the balls to get it finished. Yet, neither of the ones on my calves hurt even a little bit.

For example I spent hours designing this business card as a joke.



I know the line under "The Church of Scientology (I added the 'The') is hard to read in this crappy pic. It says "Controlling Minds & Cashing Checks Since 1953!" And yeah I ordered 250 of them from VistaPrint. Why? I don't know.

I have ~1/4 bottle of Absolut Mandarin in the freezer that I am thinking about finishing off. I'm already pretty relaxed as it is but yeah I'm getting nasty tonight. I don't have any Sprite but it will work fine with Diet Pepsi.

I am going to try my best to not embarrass myself by posting anything else tonight.

Phight On! wrote:I am going to try my best to not embarrass myself by posting anything else tonight.

Please continue to post. I'm sitting here bored outta my mind in my hotel room.

Well that didn't take long. I heard my wife woke up to take a piss so I just gulped it down with a Diet Pepsi chaser real quick. Let's see how I feel in about 10 minutes. This is not going to end well.

I just realized (with the help of Google Maps) that I'm only about a 3 hour drive away from Maynard's vineyards in Sedona, AZ. I'm seriously considering staying an extra day or so to go check it out.

Why has Slate stopped covering the R Kelly trial? Has the trial itself temporarily stopped?

For anyone with a legal background, could the defense make this argument during closing summation:

1. If the prosecution had a tape definitively showing R Kelly having sex with an underage girl then they would charge him with statutory rape rather than just child pornography.

2. He isn't on trial for statutory rape, therefore...

3. The prosecution is admitting that they don't have a tape that definitively shows R Kelly having sex with an underage girl.

4. Combine that with the fact that the prosecution hasn't produced any witnesses who were there, and they have no case.

This argument is based on the fact that R Kelly isn't on trial for statutory rape. Can the defense use that fact in it's summation?

I will never get used to the fact that the word 'background' has a 'g' in it.

TenuredVulture wrote:

VoxOrion wrote:As big a hassle as checkbooks are, you'd probably find that the folks that haul them out are probably in a better financial situation than most. It's a pretty key indicator/habit of people who are out of debt and in the black. I know that debit cards do the same thing, but I think psychologically (for some people) it's too much like using a regular credit card, which easily lends to over spending, I know it does in my case.

If you use a debit card, you still have to write the amount you spent in your register and subtract it from your balance, right? Or am I missing some kind of magic bank account that never runs out of money?

No, you're just missing the bolded part of my original post.

FWIW, what I'm describing is a common behaviorial instruction in all of the legit "How to get out of debt and stay that way" manuals. I'm not saying I endorse it, I'm just saying I don't assume the worst of people who still whip out a checkbook.

VoxOrion wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:

VoxOrion wrote:As big a hassle as checkbooks are, you'd probably find that the folks that haul them out are probably in a better financial situation than most. It's a pretty key indicator/habit of people who are out of debt and in the black. I know that debit cards do the same thing, but I think psychologically (for some people) it's too much like using a regular credit card, which easily lends to over spending, I know it does in my case.

If you use a debit card, you still have to write the amount you spent in your register and subtract it from your balance, right? Or am I missing some kind of magic bank account that never runs out of money?

No, you're just missing the bolded part of my original post.

FWIW, what I'm describing is a common behaviorial instruction in all of the legit "How to get out of debt and stay that way" manuals. I'm not saying I endorse it, I'm just saying I don't assume the worst of people who still whip out a checkbook.

I see. I just don't get the psychological distinction if you use your checkbook register to keep track of your balance. I suppose that it's not all that tough to forget to write down a check-card transaction, while that's much less likely if you used a check.

To me, the worst are those, "sign up for a Kohl's credit card and get 10% off today's purchase deals."

TenuredVulture wrote:To me, the worst are those, "sign up for a Kohl's credit card and get 10% off today's purchase deals."

I used the sign up today deal at Babies R Us a few weeks ago. It was all stuff we were going to buy anyway, though. It saved me about $60. We're never going to use the card again.

phatj wrote:

TenuredVulture wrote:To me, the worst are those, "sign up for a Kohl's credit card and get 10% off today's purchase deals."

I used the sign up today deal at Babies R Us a few weeks ago. It was all stuff we were going to buy anyway, though. It saved me about $60. We're never going to use the card again.

Oh, sure. But in my experience, there's a temptation not to pay the whole balance off when the bill comes, and then your savings start to evaporate. There are responsible ways to manage any of these tools.

Im awfully gassy considering how early it is...

I had about a billion beers this weekend. I feel like a wafer cookie.

Had a nice awkward moment Friday night, went to the Hail Social Remixes Release party, and had this conversation with a guy I've hung with several times and thought I knew sort of well:
"So is this band any good?"
"I hope so, since it's my band."
Nice.

Phils did well. Killer weekend.

Oh, great, now I get some tragic news. Awesome.

The average man storming the Bastille was 5' tall and 100 pounds. Baha

Buying cold medicine with pseudoephedrine shouldn't require so much paper work.

TenuredVulture wrote:Buying cold medicine with pseudoephedrine shouldn't require so much paper work.

Whatever, meth lab Johnny

ashton wrote:Why has Slate stopped covering the R Kelly trial? Has the trial itself temporarily stopped?

For anyone with a legal background, could the defense make this argument during closing summation:

1. If the prosecution had a tape definitively showing R Kelly having sex with an underage girl then they would charge him with statutory rape rather than just child pornography.

2. He isn't on trial for statutory rape, therefore...

3. The prosecution is admitting that they don't have a tape that definitively shows R Kelly having sex with an underage girl.

4. Combine that with the fact that the prosecution hasn't produced any witnesses who were there, and they have no case.

This argument is based on the fact that R Kelly isn't on trial for statutory rape. Can the defense use that fact in it's summation?

There's a delay due to some surprise defense witness. You should check out the Chicago Tribune wall to wall coverage.

As far as the other theory, I don't practice criminal law and the last encounter I had with it was the bar exam, but here's my thoughts while shooting from the hip: Child molestation is presumably a lesser included offense within statutory rape. Assault is a lesser included offense within murder. Lesser included offenses merge into the greater charges, so the lesser ones don't go away altogether.

Now, if I charge you with assault, but we know that the victim is now dead, can I say that since you weren't charged with homicide, you didn't commit the assault because if you did, they would've charged you for homicide? Remember, the evidentiary standards for the different crimes are different. The standards for a molestation charge are lower than the standards for a rape charge (presumably). So you would need more evidence to prove rape than you would for molestation. By making the argument you're proposing, you're assuming that the evidence requirements would be the same for both charges.

so this past weekend was the wedding for the guy who's bachelor party I was at a few weeks ago. I've been fairly dry for the last few months, but Memorial Day weekend to the Wedding was a very, very wet week. I've learned a few things:

Zyrtec + booze is a unique time
I will do anything to make sure I don't have to drive home from a wedding
contrary to popular belief, an open bar does have a limit
I can make a pina collada
married bridesmaids are just as "needy" as single bridesmaids after a wedding


Ok, now it's time to start putting my life back together...

zomg you cheated with a married bridesmaid?