Funk Babblings

This is horrifying!

An Oregon 17-year-old reports being raped by her boyfriend and his two friends. The prosecutors decide that they don't have enough evidence to prove the allegation in court, so they prosecute her for filing false charges! "Because of the seriousness of her charges," they say. Then a judge found her guilty on Friday - mainly because her friends didn't think she'd acted traumatized after the rape, and despite noting inconsistencies in the men's stories. He even disallowed evidence of those friends' unreliability, and ignored the fact that those same friends had convinced her to report the rape. He also allowed evidence about her sexual history, which should be irrelevant.

No wonder women are so reluctant to report rapes.

I keep intending to write about all the books I've been reading, but it's inching closer to a year's worth of books, and sadly I don't think I could do any of them justice at this point. I may still try (wading through an 845-page book means the read-books-pile isn't growing so quickly), but it's still getting less likely.

But what I can talk about is comics.

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I'm pretty sure it was Thursday night. I had this dream in which I saw a car barrel into a crowded theater from the back, causing horrible death and injury. It's rare for me to remember dreams, but that much I remembered.

Saturday morning I looked at the local newspaper and saw this: "Car slams into restaurant, nearly a dozen diners injured"

We learn more in today's story. Apparently nobody died, though some are still in critical condition.