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• Timothy Hutton commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  As a follow-up to my previous post, here's why Feynmann joined the committee investigating the explosion of the space shuttle Challenger....
• Phikus commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  DGallardo@~87: Sorry to hear of your experiences here. I would be interested in knowing where you moved to that helped you to feel that you have escaped willful ignorance and bigotry. I feel much the same that you describe feeling about Texas in general about Houston. I have to go back there every year for the holidays and I feel I cannot escape soon enough. One thing I feel compelled to point out, however, is that "backwardness is celebrated, and idiots are worshiped" in most of the deep South equally. Could you not say this about Georgia? Oklahoma? Mississippi? Arkansas?...
• Chrs commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  @#14: The point is that they used a dictionary to get a definition that was wrong. Dictionaries frequently include several meanings of a word, for one. More importantly, in virtually all professions there are words that are, when seen in relevant contexts, defined in specific ways. Within that professional context, such as law, you need a legal dictionary. Psychology and engineering, for example, have completely different definitions of the word "stress". Don't use a general-context dictionary because you don't want to bother the judge by asking. Anyway, this doesn't particularly bother me. The man was eligible for the death penalty,...
• neurolux commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  He should have just shot the guy. Nowhere in the Bible does it mention lead bullets....
• Timothy Hutton commented on Court turns down challenge to jury's use of Bible
  NEUROLUX wrote: He should have just shot the guy. As noted in the first line of the Boing Boing posting: A Texas man killed his victim by shooting him and beating him with the barrel of a gun. [emphasis added]...