The 3 part series isn't horrible but no where near as good as the epic O.J. documentary.  Neither of the main defense lawyers... Jose Baez and Cheney Mason were interviewed.  

Only one juror was interviewed and he didn't say much.  Wouldn't you want to hear from more jurors? Former prosecutor Jeff Ashton is still blaming them for the verdict, claiming they were biased because they hadn't made up their mind before the trial started. My take on that is prosecutors don't like a fair fight.

There wasn't much new here but it did remind me about all the idiots who showed up to Anthony's parent's house to harass them. Sometimes bringing their young kids with them.

And Gen. Cheeto is making the North Koreans jumpy and trigger happy.

I stopped worrying about nuclear war after the Berlin Wall fell....In high school, I assumed, and most people did I think, that the world would end in a nuclear conflagration.   I haven't had that feeling in years.

Yet, Gen. Cheeto in his mindless saber rattling is ratcheting up the temperature.   And, god, is he incompetent--saying that an aircraft carrier task force was steaming to waters off of North Korea, when it was in the Indian Ocean going the other way.  He can't even saber rattle effectively.  But he could blunder us into war.

And, most disturbing is that the Generals we all hoped would be a restraint on Cheeto covered for him when he said that the carrier group was headed to North Korea--they knew better and said nothing.

ths is interesting

George Will realized that America's health care reality means that not only is Obamacare unrepealable but that we are on our way to a single-payer system. He seemed resigned to the fact that the failed market-based health care system he wants to retain is likely dying a slow qualified death.

"Barack Obama said as a candidate that he would prefer a single-payer plan but couldn't get there," George Will said. "As President when they were going through the Obamacare agonies, he said, look upon Obamacare as a starter home. The beginning, the thin end of an enormous wedge heading toward that. What does Donald Trump say? 'Single-payer works fine in Scotland.' So I don't see any particular animus he has as you say against a single-payer plan. And, what we've learned in this debate about repealing Obamacare is that the essence of Obamacare is the expansion of Medicaid. Who has benefited from that? Probably disproportionately white working-class males, Trump voters."

It's about time that Conservatives come to the realization that those that benefit the most from the policies enacted by Progressives are people in the Red States (here & here). Ironically if Trump, Ryan, and their Republican cohort were successful in repealing Obamacare and instituting their draconian health care policies, their constituents would bear the brunt of the pain. While that eventuality would likely flip both the House and Senate, it is something we cannot wish on our brothers and sisters who bought into the lie.

I have been saying that Obamacare was designed to be a stepping stone to single-payer health care for years. It is clear that it is the only solution

Dr. Fakhruddin Attar, 53, and his wife, Farida Attar, 50, were arrested on charges of "conspiring to perform female genital mutilations on minor girls out of Fakhruddin Attar's medical clinic," authorities said Friday.

The couple allegedly "arranged and assisted" the procedures performed by Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, who was the first individual to be charged with violating federal law that bans the practice where part or all of the genitalia is removed.

Attar, who owned the Burhani Medical Center in Livonia, Michigan, lent his medical office to Nagarwala to perform the procedure on girls, aged 6 to 9, while Farida Attar held their hands "to comfort them," the complaint alleges.

[April 18, 2017] H-1B visas "should include only the most skilled and highest-paid applicants and should never, ever be used to replace American workers," Mr. Trump told a gathering of about 500 workers and local luminaries, including the White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus, who hails from Kenosha.

video posted to Facebook captured the moments after an employee allegedly took a stroller from a woman and hit her with it, narrowly missing the baby in her arms. The video shows the distraught woman holding her baby and crying, asking flight attendants to give her the stroller back.

There are at least two idiots in this story.  While the woman is crying another passenger gets up and confronts one of the AA employees.

Hey, bud? Hey, bud? You do that to me and I'll knock you flat

But what the employee does next is even worse...

the employee responds, waving his finger at the passenger. "Try it. Hit me."

It marks the first time in French history that the two major parties, the Conservatives and Socialists, have failed to advance at least one of their candidates past the first-round presidential vote to the runoff. Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon has already conceded defeat, and Conservative candidate Francois Fillon is expected to do likewise shortly.