OMG, Adam as a weapons expert on CSI: NY (Brett)  My heart just did a fandom squee!  Adam!!!  Crap, I just wish I had an Adam icon.  Must've gotten rid of it.

Top 5 Disney animated films:
5. Mulan
4. The Sword in the Stone
3. Pocahontas
2. The Black  Cauldron
1. Sleeping Beauty

Horror Movie of the Week: 
Unearthed              5/5

Tote count high: 33 (TWO COFFIN BOXES)

Guilty pleasure of the month(s):
Regency romances
Paranormal romances
TVDs

Other randomness:
Bitten Plum polish on my toes
sportin' the new 'do
crushing issues with a boy...(and god, am I getting too old for this crap)

Had the most bizarre night at work.  In retail, one comes to expect this - someone's always going to try and rip you off.  Sometimes with pricing errors or bitching about not having the sale product or people actually ripping you off and blatantly ripping product off the shelves.  I've found empty boxes and wrappers for nearly everything - condoms, cough medicine, cds, dvds and tvds, toys, seeds, clothes, dog toys, bags of half-eaten bulk food, deer urine - everything. 

Tonight's ripoff was not anything out of the ordinary - booze was the desired possession, and was desired by baby.  Okay, so he was fifteen - that still makes him a baby trying to steal Yager.  For the love of Pete, he's only a year older than Seaira!  He's a friggen' baby.  I digress.  So apparently LP (loss prevention -  which is just a fancy name for Plain Clothes Rent-a-Cops) was tracking said baby who was giving up all of these tells about being in the middle of trying to successfully steal something he really shouldn't have for at least another six years, when he started running - or walking really - towards the door.  One of our younger and newer (read still kinda gives a shit) comes tearing down the back T aisle where I am talking to Joe, one of the guys I work with.  Next thing I know, he's slowing down and asking the new guy Dwight something, and they both start running to the grocery side of the store.  Me and Joe look at each other like - "okay, bizarre" - because LP barely nods at any of us ever let alone talk to us.  But we shrug it off, and Joe went to the backroom to look for something for a guest.  Not a minute later I hear this big crash.  Don't think anything of it because hey, stuff falls over or gets hit all the time.

Come to find out that sound - it was Baby getting slammed into the Exit door while trying to come In it.  And not the doors that lead outside either - no, he's trying to come back in.  Shattered the glass, but managed not to drop the bottle.  And not only was he trying to put hair on his chest with the Yager he was apparently trying to kill all of his braincells, because during the pat down in the LP office they found a pot blunt.  This is the generation that's going to run the world when I'm old and gray?  And on top of it - his mother and what I'm assuming was his sister got all indignant that they even had to come to the store.  I'm half expecting them to go to some news station or press outlet and complain at how over the top LP was during his apprehension.  Crack babies running the world, I tell ya.

So I've had an insanely busy month/set of weeks.  Really.  Last weekend there was the (former) Stripper shower on sunday and on Saturday I finally went and saw 300.

Cue to Thursday - when I think I'm going to have to present my Kobe Bryant rape case in ethics-  srsly, it's been pushed back by five weeks now, because we just take too long in analysing them as a group.  I'll give y'all the gist of it - the chick who claimed that KB raped her five years ago had all of her personal biz spread out on the web and by certain disc jockeys in the sake of 'fairness' - their reasoning was if their beloved and oh-so-sainted KB's getting hitched with the rapist stigma, girly's gotta get her name on that too.  Her college paper got in on it too, by interviewing her friends and people who knew her (while never using their full names nor using hers for the sake of her privacy).  I have to answer three questions, and the biggest one I'm having an issue with is: should rape be treated any differently than other adult crimes: murder, robbery, and other big crime.  I came off on this originally as: Yes, hell yes, it should be treated differently because it's different than those other crimes.
The victim or potential-victim has to live with the consquences of the potential attack for the rest of her/his life, and no-one can tell me that it doesn't seriously screw a person up for life.  It's a violation that deeper and more personal than any other kind of crime.  Someone else was inside your body without your permission, threatening your life if you don't do what they demand of you.  You have two options: do what they say, or fight and neither one guarentees that you'll walk away from the situation alive.  Hell, yes it's a different kind of crime.  I posed this question to my mom and sisters and (apart from the jaw dropping moment my sisters and I had when my mom uttered the now-prolific line with such force: "I think convicted rapists should be castrated.  And then they should eat it!", which prompted us all to say throughout Frankenmuth "And then they should eat it!" after everything.) they all agreed that it should be treated differently.  Of course, that's asking a  third grade teacher, a mother of two girls and a grandmother with three daughters.
But then during the five-week pushback, I read up on it and stumbled on some articles from when the big scandal broke that made me re-evalutate my stand.  Some say it creates a stigma and in general a few of family and friends finding out about it more than a health or safety concern.  It also leads to the 'she-was-asking-for-it by wearing/talking/acting that/that way stigma.  I get the first stigma, but I don't think it's so much the finding out about it as it is the feeling of I-should-have-done-this.  
Reviewers who left comments on the articles argued back and forth about revealing a possible-rape-victim's (sorry, it works better than accuser-of-rape, that just slants it against the person) identity.  Right now the accepted policy is to not run the name without the person's consent (unless, you know, you get potentially-raped by someone famous, apparently).  Personally, I could give two shits about Kobe Bryant or the endorsement losses he suffered because he couldn't keep his pecker in his pants, but the girl-in-question dropped the criminal charges against him and filed a civil suit because she was getting threatening emails and phone calls from his devoted fanboys and fangirls for putting their superstar in jail over it (and wasn't he released in like hours?) that got to be too much.

this is where you come in, gentle viewers.  
Do you think rape cases should be handled differently than other major crime cases?