Some Randomness

A few bits of interest that popped up over the past couple of days:

Free legal advice: Do not suck strange women's toes in the public library. They will indict you for something, like gross sexual imposition (which sounds like an apt description to me).

Justice is served: Today, a Texas jury returned a verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity in the Andrea Yates retrial. While I'm sure that somewhere news harpy Nancy Grace* is going fetal with rage, I think Andrew Cohen over at the Washington Post has it right:

There is no victory here. Yates will be sent to heavily-guarded mental health facility, where she will probably spend the rest of her life. From time to time she will be evaluated. And, if past is prologue, every time her medicine allows her to regain a little bit of sanity she will realize what she did to her beloved children and then descend again back into some sort of madness. So this story started as a tragedy and continues as a tragedy even with though the defense finally won the day.

* UPDATE: As expected, Grace is going ape shit over this. One would think that somebody as batshit loony as Grace would recognize it in someone else.

Odd art: Via Concurring Opinions, I found this link to "Strange statues around the world." It is, indeed, a blog post full of pictures of odd statuary from across the globe. My favorites are






There are loads more - go see for yourself.