The two teenage girls were arrested for threatening the victim, not the rapists. Does this make the prosecutor less of a tool?

I don't know if you linked to the wrong article, or just read the text wrong, but the two girls who were charged regarding the Steubenville rape case are accused of threatening the rape victim's life, not the rapist's. The attorney general is saying that it's not okay to threaten a victim. Not a tool move. A much needed move in what seems to be an endlessly fucked up case.

The news link says REPEATEDLY that the two girls have been arrested for threatening the VICTIM. Threatening the RAPE VICTIM.

Perhaps it is you who is a tool.

@1-3) You are right. That's a total mistake, and I've fixed it. My apologies. I blame my DNA reactivation for the error.

@2 for the reading comprehension win! I hope this prosecutor keeps going.

On the upcoming SCOTUS ruling. On the surface the GOP might feel it could adopt the Roe-vs.-Wade approach: demagogue on the issue while trusting all the time that the adults have made any real policy change impossible. Of course, that golem, like so many others the Right Wing have conjured, has gotten away from them and will shortly bite them on the ass (one of these days the SCOTUS is going to uphold one of the bans-in-all-but-name pieces of legislation like the one we just saw out of ND).

But, very fortunately, it turns out the way these lawsuits are crafted only invalidates DOMA and Prop. 8; it does not make marriage equality automatic in all states. That means the GOP will still have to stand up and make a political choice (and LOSE).

Isn't that what years of BS rhetoric about 'not legislating from the bench' and 'allowing the political process to go forward' is all about? No, I'm not advocating making basic individual rights subject to majority rule, but it never hurts when those rights are upheld not just in the courts but by a majority at the ballot box - it removes the incentive for sleazeballs to exploit hatred, bigotry and discrimination as a tool for organizing and mobilizing the population.

If we didn't have the talibangelicals out there fear mongering and whipping up a froth over teh gays and abortion, these issues would have vanished much, much faster.

I came to the comments to point out that the girls were arrested for threatening the *victim*, not the rapist, but i see that's been noted. While i'm here though, elizabeth warren didn't seem to be speaking to state voters as a whole--she seemed to be speaking to voters in the republican primary. More of an attempt to short circuit a candidate who might be more viable in the general against a dem, i would venture.

Wow - Warren makes a pot joke and that makes her an idiot? Really?

@4 Are you sure it wasn't due to Anakin Skywalker tampering with your memories of the destruction of the World Trade Center? That's just the sort of collateral damage I've seen in other such cases of control by the New World Order

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I think many at the federal level see Washington and Colorado's pot laws as a path out of a legal nightmare that's too expensive in many ways. That a Republican is running on legalization is encouraging. But, yeah, I think Warren was being funny.

Yes, the SCOTUS could settle the whole marriage equality thing, just like they settled the whole abortion thing.

For Republicans, who prefer campaigning to governing, a supreme court ruling won't slow them down at all.

I hope Equality House has infra-red CCTV and the local prosecutor on speed-dial. There be some vandalizin' comin'. Oh, and don't forget civil suits! That'd be some nice turnabout. I hear Westboro Baptist makes a living suing people that fight back. It's about time someone reverses that.

Does reactivating your dormant DNA make you high? Or am I better to just stick with pot?

@15: I'd be pissed if that happened to me. One, I'm already taken. Two, I'd really rather not experience that burning sensation during urination (or worse).

@12: I'm quite certain that Republicans prefer governing to campaigning, it is you that prefers them to campaign and not to govern.

If you think you're going to combat "rape culture" by throwing more and more teenagers in prison, you're nuts.

Wait, I thought the Suburban Times was $0.04 a week ...

17, oh, that is rich. this is coming from the same person who defended Sarah Palin, the woman who resigned her Governorship mid-term so she can give speeches and appear on Fox more often.

seriously, Phoebe, you will not believe how much brighter the world looks once you pull your head out of your ass.

@15 Not that it happens very often, but yes, women have been tried and convicted for rapimg men.

@24: That is the best post you have ever made, by a huge margin.

@27: There you go again. Typically you extrapolate from the specific to the general in contorted ways to build your rant, this time it's the same thing but from the general to the specific.

@27, seeing as "Phoebe in Wallingford" is using a photo of the character "Phoebe Tyler Wallingford" from "All My Children" as her profile pic, I think she's a fake-o. To what end, I can't imagine, since "she" plays it so close to the vest that the satire, if any, is undetectable.

@24: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-rC317JfaOY4/TZ…

@31: And why shouldn't I use Ruth Warrick's pic? We look alike in a way, but my first name is Phoebe (I used to be 'Phoebe on NE 79th' when I joined Slog years ago. I moved to Wallingford to be closer to my daughter and the play on 'Phoebe in Wallingford' was irresistible. In all these years, you're the second to notice.

BTW - 'All My Children' and 'One Life to Live' did finally get that Internet broadcasting deal going with Prospect Park - airing this spring I believe.

This is way below the fold at this point but it is interesting to note that out of nearly every online left-leaning community blog out there today SLOG is the only one that doesn't mention the 10 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq.

And of all those left-leaning community blogs SLOG is the only one with a sitting editor that was FOR the invasion of Iraq. Huh.

Interesting coincidence.

@24 Not a coincidence, Savage & Frizzele both have gone back to what they know, sex advice and name dropping literary celebs, thankfully leaving political commentary to people who actually give a shit what's going on in the world.

My senator is not perfect. I can live with this.