| Lo Fun Fact #1 |
| "Lolita Files" is my real name. It is not a pen name, as incredible as that may seem. There are plenty of Files family members and people who have known me for years capable of validating this. As for the "Lolita" part, my mother named me after the movie based on Nabokov's book, although she saw or read neither. To this day, she has no idea what a "Lolita" is. |
| Lo Fun Fact #2 |
| I love fried chicken and fabulous shoes. If you ever want to get on my good side, send Popeye's or Mr. Chicken (my favorite spot in Cleveland) and a pair of
Christian Louboutins. |
| Lo Fun Fact #3 |
| Never show up unannounced or without a Pepsi (preferably Pepsi Jazz Caramel Cream). Better yet, how about not show up at all? |
| Lo Fun Fact #4 |
| I hate the telephone. Don't get mad if I don't call you. I don't call anyone. Don't call me asking why I don't call. Just don't call, okay? |
| Lo Fun Fact #5 |
| I love the internet!!! I love communicating through the internet!!! You can e-mail me and odds are I'll e-mail you right back (if I'm not in the middle of a major project). Makes up for my hangup about the phone, doesn't it? See, I'm not so bad after all!!! |
| Lo Fun Fact #6 |
| I can't stand IMing. Please don't IM me. You will get the cold shoulder. I don't like giving people the cold shoulder, so please don't put me in that position. |
| Lo Fun Fact #7 |
I have four five six wonderful, slap-happy dogs, a bird (some kind of dove/pigeon mix), and a cat, all of whom I love to pieces. If you meet me and ask me about my dogs, bird, and cat, we'll be instant friends. If you meet me and ask me why the f*ck I have four five six dogs, a bird, and a cat, see the above fun fact for how I will respond. |
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| Wow. |
| Thursday, July 27, 2006 |
 In a dramatic turnaround from her first murder trial, Andrea Yates was found not guilty by reason of insanity Wednesday in the drowning of her (FIVE!!!!!) children in the bathtub. This actually leaves me speechless.
Seriously.
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You know stuff likes this makes me wonder time and again about our way of doing things.
I may be mistaken, but the only difference is now this person will be housed (for life) in a mental institution as opposed to an actual prison. Like I said, I may be wrong, but I think this is the only difference.
What bothers me is that the taxpayers of the state she lives in had to pay for not one, but two trials to come up with a conclusion that any person with an iota of common sense would have known from the beginning. I can just imagine "Big Momma" sitting on her screened-iin porch on her glider, sipping peach tea, shaking her head and saying, "Now, that strumpet is crazy . . . baby, could you fill this up for me?"
Perhaps it's just me, but had I been the husband of this fool and I came home to discover that she had killed my five children (I am not sure if he made the discovery) then there would have been a sixth corpse and I would have been the one standing on trial and I would have been the one who got off for reason of insanity.
Lo, I agree with you. WOW, indeed.
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if memory serves me correctly, didn't her case gave public light to "post partum psychosis"?
damn. y'all women got excuses for everything.....
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Kids are overrated. Just ask any Israeli jet bomber.
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Matt, I am not going to laugh and I definitely see your point but you coulda softened that a bit, don't you think.
This, coming from a staunch children's advocate, who from time to time has commented (to myself only) that my chlidren are poster kids for abotion rights.
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I guess my point (though searing) was that while we're still talking about five kids that were murdered years ago, there are kids being murdered every day in Lebanon. In Iraq. In Sudan. I'm ashamed of my government, is all.
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I was simply trying to highlight the fact that here we are some years later mourning these 5 kids when 30,000 die every single day of preventable ailments. Now we have kids getting bombed to bits in Lebanon, Iraq, Israel. They're being hunted and slaughtered in Sudan. The greatest atrocities are at our feet, here, today and we will let them continue on tomorrow, the next day and so on. I am very involved in a charity called A Hope For Children, out of Ethiopia. An American woman (a doctor) started this deal and has brought about incredible changes in these childrens lives. They orphans who not only lost their parents to HIV but are infected themselves, as well. When I first started getting involved with these kids, there was no medication and they were basically just kind of kicking about, waiting for death to call. Recently they began getting HIV meds and these kids are exploding with life. It's amazing. Check out their site at www.ahopeforchildren.org.
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You know stuff likes this makes me wonder time and again about our way of doing things.
I may be mistaken, but the only difference is now this person will be housed (for life) in a mental institution as opposed to an actual prison. Like I said, I may be wrong, but I think this is the only difference.
What bothers me is that the taxpayers of the state she lives in had to pay for not one, but two trials to come up with a conclusion that any person with an iota of common sense would have known from the beginning. I can just imagine "Big Momma" sitting on her screened-iin porch on her glider, sipping peach tea, shaking her head and saying, "Now, that strumpet is crazy . . . baby, could you fill this up for me?"
Perhaps it's just me, but had I been the husband of this fool and I came home to discover that she had killed my five children (I am not sure if he made the discovery) then there would have been a sixth corpse and I would have been the one standing on trial and I would have been the one who got off for reason of insanity.
Lo, I agree with you. WOW, indeed.