Couch 47.0 (we finally debugged)

Excellent history!

Thanks for the links SD. When I finish off the bottle I have now, I will have to make some.

Is everyone else glued to the TV like me?
I should be cleaning the house....

I'm just reading other threads. What's good on TV?

I only get ABC and TBS on my TV. I am assuming anything that's a news channel is covering Boston right now. If you want to avoid, I'd stick with cable.

It's always a possibility... Although, I never experienced it.

It does for me for sure. Total anxiety magnification.

Maybe it would be different if I started doing it now.. I was a teenager the last time I smoked pot!

Suspect # 2 in the ambulance and under arrest.

WOOT.

Don't mess with Boston man.

And here I am concerned about how is he ever going to get a fair trial.
Right now he is just an accused, and not formally at that. (I am going to have to bite my tongue if I talk to my family who live up there this weekend). I was a public defender minded child in a family of prosecutory minded other members. I remember once, after somebody was convicted of some rather unpleasant crime of a nationally prominent sort - and watching the news with my family and some of their friends, when the convicted, at sentencing, shouted out some not useful things - they all gasped at the words of the defendant and then me when I, not meaning to talk out loud, said "his poor attorney"

I am not an expert either, but if I ever did smoke some, I would not be surprised if this was not my experience, but rather that it just put me right to sleep.

It can be worse or better,..... just depends

Pot makes some people just giggle uncontrollably. Not that I would know from personal experience or anything.

Never mind, keep wicked calm and carry the hell on.

Left my apartment the second the "shelter in" order was lifted, saw this on the T.

I had started to formulate a response. But I will revise.

For what it is worth, I do have close immediate family in that area and some of them participate in marathons, and the Boston one is both one they have run in and one my family, through association with a sponsor, have volunteered and worked at. They have been affected by this situation.
And I still find I am concerned about the other parts of the system too. More so because of my huge fear and horror of how mob mentality has the ability to take over. And because I actually do believe in the Constitution itself and the notion of fair play by authority.

And my stance on therapists is not quite as may be perceived.

party... woot woot

I guess it is hard for me to see how it makes a difference whether one is personally invested in the case or not; although this happens to be happening literally all around me, I would say it is certainly not the most upsetting case of people being killed that I have encountered. I think what bothers me more is who was targeted and how, than where it happened. So while I can (and do) extend my sympathy to you and the people you know... I'm not sure how it would make a difference to what I find curious about it? I can't quite tell if you're implying that my being in Boston means that I don't want him to have a fair trial, or believe in the Constitution? It's not clear, so I will just leave it.

Anyway, I'm not sure what I find unusual is something that can or needs to be rectified. It just is.

By acknowledging a family tie to Boston and the marathon, I was only trying to explain that my earlier response is not because I am completely separated from the incident itself.
I don't understand about the curious or unusual parts. I was not trying to rectify anything, but I did think perhaps I could explain. But certainly any number of people including family and even close friends have found/ find me/my take on things curious, unusual and dead flat odd - and that is just some of the nicer ways people put it. For me, I truly do not understand most of the responses others have in these sorts of situations. I understand I am not often in the majority, but I do not know why others respond as they do anymore than I am understood. After all these years, I am kind of used to it. Sometimes I still try to explain when I think I can. I am not usually right about that.

Here is a professional writer who may do a better job than I did about at least a part of my concern:
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_a...terrorism.html
I was not intending to imply you personally (or anyone on this site) do not want the suspect to have a fair trial or believe in the Constitution. I was trying to explain my response as I read your now removed statement to me - not question anyone else's.

I haven't watched any of the news media as it is too triggering for me but I have read some of it. I am glad they caught the person alive with the hope that he might help understand the whys and hows...

I think that the US is a great country to live in. I think one of the reasons that terrorism is such a big news story is because this great country some of us live in does not have the type of everyday terrorism that other countries do... And one of the things that makes America great is our legal and justice system that is spelled out in our constitution...that we are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. It is not that way in every country.

I read one news story about a person who was detained during the investigation and forced to strip naked in the street and then was placed in a cop car only to be taken out of the cop car to be interogated by the FBI while standing naked in the streeet....only for them to decide he was not an issue and allowed to leave.... I believe in catching dangerous criminals but I have mixed feelings about that whole situation.... under what circumstances is it okay to ignore your constitutional/civil rights...definitely a question to ponder

Just my thoughts

On a lighter note, I had a little mini marathon of Army Wives tonight. I love that show.

I am still on Dobie Gillis and segueing into Our Miss Brooks. I love(d) Eve Arden.

Those shows were before my time.... I googled them...

very 60s... the oldest shows I remember (probably in reruns) were the Patty Duke Show, Father Knows Best, Leave it to Beaver, etc.

My all time favorite "older" show was Marcus Welby, MD.... loved Dr Kiley...

They were before my time too. I listen to old radio comedy and mysteries and Our Miss Brooks started out on radio. I also go through spates of british comedies.

I remember my parents watching a show I think it was Upstairs Downstairs that I think was british. and of course all the old soap operas my mother watched like Search for Tommorrow