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It's like six months worth of fulminating, unhinged, largely fact-free, hate-laced, incendiary Bill O'Reilly segments about Dr. George Tiller boiled down to one creepy novella, plus someone's idea of "legalese," evidently learned from Lifetime movies.

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This guy was lucky he didn't get the needle.

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In an 11-page handwritten appeal

It was then that the lawyer in me flashed back to all my times dealing with pro se litigants and settled in for some real crazy stuff.

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I also enjoyed letters of complaint from somewhat nutty people (usually I was not the one being complained about, but just had a position that seemed like a good one to complain to). They all had the same handwriting.

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He should be told to fuck off.

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i initially read that as 'burn the cis people' and i wondered if i'd missed a meeting...

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Poor dear Eiron can't kill herself, being a goddess and all, so irony can't die. Eiron does, however, get blind stinking drunk when faced with shit like that.

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trump could always just pardon him, it might help him get back some of those evangelical voters.

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LOL - I already have too much sun damage, so can I have a pass?

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"I'd like you to change my sentence.""OK. Let's see, you took life in prison with possibility of parole instead of death, is that correct?""Yes, sir.""Fine. So, it's death, then. Any last requests?""Um, could you just forget we had this conversation?"

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i already have a toaster, so imma let you off with a warning about gender essentialism this time :)

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Mine doesn't even try to chase them anymore.

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My all-time favorite REM song.

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So he nonviolently murdered 3 people and and nonviolently injured over 150 people and nonviolently gave untold others nightmares for life? Sure.

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I'm kind of surprised that Eric Robert Rudolph gave up on the "they deserved to die" defense. I mean, that would be about as pathetic and disgusting as his "It was not an act of violence" defense.

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Did Alito write an amicus curiae?

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