Bye-bye, Texas!

Hey, fuck you, Italy!

Here's a fun court decision from Italy

World: Europe

Women in jeans 'cannot be raped'



Italy's highest court has ruled that a woman wearing jeans cannot be raped.

The Supreme Court of Appeal in Rome on Wednesday overturned a rape conviction, saying that the supposed victim must have agreed to sex because her jeans could not have been removed without her consent.



Rome Correspondent David Willey: "Ground-breaker in Italian legal annals"
A court in the southern town of Potenza had convicted a driving instructor of raping his 18-year-old pupil.

The instructor, aged 45 and identified only as Carmine, had been sentenced to 34 months' jail.

His defence had argued that the young woman - identified as Rosa - had consented to sex, a version of events which the woman strongly denied.

The Supreme Court ruled that it was impossible to remove a pair of jeans "without the collaboration of the person wearing them", and that the young woman must therefore have consented to sex.

In a judgement likely to anger women's rights organisations, the rape conviction was reversed.

Driving instructors in Italy have a reputation, deserved or undeserved, for molesting young female pupils, and the case appeared at first to be a familiar story of sexual assault on a lonely country road.

All this torture talk reminds me

That it's always fuck Don Rumsfeld O'Clock

Coleman's razor

Via Daily Kos

Whenever there are two or more possible explanations for the behavior of a Republican in 2009, the least honorable of the alternatives represents the truth.

Happy Easter!

I'm not a religious man, but I do like that religion provides an excuse for extended families to get together.

So, to my secular and religious friends, enjoy!

Go Vermont!

I have to say, even though I had nothing to do with it, I'm proud to be from Vermont today. First legislature to pass marriage equality, with enough votes to override Gov. shithead's veto!

Another good day for marriage equality

Iowa's supreme court found that a gay marriage ban violated the state's equal protection clause, and it's now legal for homosexuals to marry in the heartland.

Vermont's legislature has passed a bill legalizing gay marriage by wide margins. However, Gov. Douglas plans to veto it, so supports will need 5 more votes in the house of representatives to override. Hopefully they can find them, or Jim Douglas needs to be beat in 2010.