a civilized society

 They have a "hung jury" and mistrial, in the Lindsay Clancy trial in Plymouth, Massachusetts.

Horrible tragedy - hard to get your mind around it.

        But apparently this can happen, sometimes.  Remember the Andrea Yates story, about 20 years ago?

I found a couple of videos on You Tube that give some information to try to enlighten us about these situations.

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Lindsay Clancy Update:  Boston Globe Health & Sciences Reporter Sarah Rahal Breaks Down All The Meds

uploader / channel:  Hot Mics with Billy Bush

Postpartum Psychosis:  What the Lindsay Clancy Trial Gets Wrong

uploader / channel:  Savvy Psychologist and Dr. Judy Ho

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         Los Angeles trial lawyer Alan Jackson said, of postpartum psychosis, "As a civilized society, we do not criminalize illness."

We "civilians" - lay people, non-experts - assume, in the midst of shock, "a person would have to be crazy to kill their own children."

        The various videos talking about this case show photographs of the Clancy family - the dad and mom, and three children.  In the photos, everyone looks so happy.  

        I saw some of the trial, on You Tube.  I felt so sorry for the families involved.  At one point, a prosecutor was directing questions to, I think it was Patrick Clancy's mom, and the prosecutor asked if the lady is a Catholic, and then insinuatingly crooned, "Isn't murder a mortal sin?"

I was like - What The Actual f-- ...???!!

The lawyers and judge had a little thing about that in the sidebar. ...

Or, as defense lawyer Kevin Reddington would pronounce it, "side - bah"...

        He pronounces "post-partum" as "post - pah-tem."

"Kevin."

All those Boston-Irish are named Kevin....

    

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your perfume should linger

 

Shag, one of the best movies ever, is on You Tube!

Posted 12 days ago.

Watch it now, before they take it down!

        In the very early part of the movie, there's a glitch where the sound goes out.  But it's only gone for about one minute.  Then the sound is back, and the rest of the movie is perfect.

        It came out in 1989.

        The story is set in the summer of 1963, at Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, which is a real place.

"We're going to make like a tree, and leave."

"Where have I seen you before?"

        "Maybe in one of your better dreams."

The make-out parking spot is named "Wee-Waw Point."

What can I say?!

        (Nothing that clever....)

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please don't take him just because you can

 

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene - Jolene

I'm beggin' of you, please don't take my man

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene - Jolene

Please don't take him just because you can...

        That song by the late, great Dolly Parton captures your attention when you hear it, and it's an easy song to remember.

        It has seemed to me for a long time that I've known that song all my life.  But not my whole life, because it got released in January 1974, when I was in my freshman year of high school.

Sometime in the years between then and now, the idea formed in my mind, and was committed to memory, that "Jolene" came out in the mid-Sixties.  My family lived in Mineral City, Ohio, then, & I thought I heard the song then.

        But recently it came to my attention the song didn't come out until 1974 when we were two towns away from Mineral City - we had moved to Rootstown, Ohio 1967, and then moved again in 1973.

So why did my memory conflate the song with the earlier years?  Turning that question over in my mind,  it finally came to me that when we lived in Mineral City I had a doll that I named Joleen.  (That's how I spelled it, I think....)

        I knew that name, not because of the Dolly Parton song, which wasn't even out yet, but because there was another little girl at my school who was named Joleen.

I liked that name.

The doll had yellow hair in braids, and wore colorful "peasant"-style clothes.

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enough to drive you crazy if you let it

 

In London, England, the Buckingham Palace Band honored Dolly Parton by playing her song, "Nine To Five."

on You Tube:

King's Guard plays '9 to 5' outside Buckingham Palace in moving tribute...

uploader / channel:  @TheLondonStandard

        It's a "moving tribute," for sure, because it will get you movin' / dancin' ....

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what a way to make a living

 In videos and articles about Dolly Parton's life, a story is told where Elvis Presley wanted to record "I Will Always Love You" but when his manager, "Colonel" Tom Parker met with Dolly, he said, Well the way it always is:  any song Elvis records, he has to have the publishing rights to it.

Dolly was happy that Elvis wanted to record her song, and she was enthusiastic about the idea, but when the ol' colonel tried to scam her like that, she had to say No.

        One narrator stated that Dolly Parton's father was very "business-savvy," even though he was illiterate.  "He knew exactly how business worked, and you can tell how Dolly picked up on that...."

She kept her song publishing rights, and got paid.

(If she didn't make sure she got properly paid, she wouldn't have been able to make the substantial charitable contributions that she did.)

        When Queen Elizabeth passed away people said, "She's just always been there."  

        That's how Dolly Parton is for a lot of us, I think.  Part of our lives - just always there.  On our televisions, on our movie screens, on our radio waves, on our records and music CDs; putting books in people's mailboxes. ...

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I could sing with Bob

 You Tube's "cup runneth over" with Dolly Parton videos:  songs, interviews, documentaries, podcasts, random conversations.

The consensus seems to be:  "everybody loves Dolly Parton."

        In one interview, the host got her talking about duets:  she loved singing with Kenny Rogers, of course, and also they discussed other artists' songs that Dolly has covered.

Go on You Tube and type in

Dolly Parton - Don't Think Twice

and Play!

        It's a Bob Dylan song.

        The guy asks her if she would like to sing a duet with Dylan.

She answered, "I could sing with Bob."

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...gonna be all right

 "Light Of A Clear Blue Morning"

a Dolly Parton song to listen to

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