Arkady Renko

Why are we so worried about some other team snapping up Levi Brown?

I hope you are not serious.

Doesn't seem like there's much point in arguing. Brohm will have a chance tomorrow where he will either sink or swim.

Is there ever a thread about a tragedy where someone doesn't start blaming the victim?

I wish teams playing the Bills would follow his no-blitz philosophy. That said, he has a point about 6 and 7 man blitzes, which are huge gambles, especially when it is 3rd and very long.

I am not sure why hating Kill Bill because of the violence is such a bad thing. What Gregg Easterbook said was inappropriate, but I think it is a mischaracterization to just say that "he blamed Jews in the film industry."

At least he can take solace in the fact that he's still alive.

It doesn't have to be. Someone can be driving recklessly enough to far outweigh the jaywalking.

I also found Mystic River to be terribly depressing.

I thought the Road was more uplifting than than No Country For Old Men. At least there's arguably a happy ending in the Road.

And yet somehow the Bills beat the Jets last year.

Actually not likely true. http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1...he-local-brides

Fitzpatrick was supposed to be terrible at camp and on the verge of being cut yet he outplayed Trent on Friday just as he did last season.

Circumstances are very limited.

Your impression is generally right. But the law views intent as just part of the story. Randomly shooting into a crowd or dropping cinder blocks over overpasses at cars (likely second degree murder) can be viewed as worse crimes than killing someone in the heat of passion (you caught your wife having sex with another dude, you went into a rage after a rough fight), for example, which would lead to a charge of voluntary manslaughter. Arguably, a person in the former situations had a lot more control over what they were doing than the person in the latter situations despite the fact that the intent is stronger in the latter situations.

If the Bills just beat the Dolphins week one, the media will act very surprised - well surprised that the Dolphins could play so badly to have been beaten by the Bills - despite the fact that the Bills crushed the Dolphins in Buffalo last year with Ryan Fitzpatrick lighting them up.

I think there is no stepped-up basis then though. His family would pay capital gains instead.

I think that was referring to the idea of transferred intent. For example, if A intends to shoot B, but hits C instead who then dies, then A can still be convicted of murdering C though A actually intended to murder B.

Why does he need to tell people of his plans? Let's say he waited outside the party for her to come out. He then throws the brick at her. She dies. Lying in wait to do this would have been enough to get it to murder 1. I doubt many would have much doubt about his intent here. The car just complicates this because it may have seemed that he was trying to damage the car only.

I looked at the original article, which indicates that he could face death.

Not normally, no. I hadn't realized that he was up for capital murder.

That's the textbook case of reckless disregard for human life, which is sufficient to convict someone for murder (usually second degree).

Often you can be convicted for murder due to a reckless disregard for human life. (Like shooting randomly at a crowd.) They need not necessarily prove intent to kill.

Funny, Lollypop Farm seems to have dogs too.

I hope you're right, because it means that he still has real potential.