Wow. *impressed*

[thistlechaser]

For all people joke about her, Martha Stewart seems to be a strong, honorable woman. I admire her and I hope that if I were ever in a similar situation, I would act the same way. I hope she's able to plant her garden, and I hope her situation in prison isn't too bad.

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[kwolfhard.livejournal.com]

I think it's a marketing ploy. Next thing you know, there'll be a headline stating 'Gardener of Alcatraz', or something along those lines.

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Hee, that'd be clever. Fitting icon, too!

[linmayu.livejournal.com]

Wow, go Martha. I certainly didn't expect her to make that decision. Though if I were her I'd fire the lawyers for not respecting said decision. >.>

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Martha Stewart is not a nice person, and I've never really liked her accordingly. But the degree to which she's always been villified annoys me significantly. She has been a sucessful, powerful woman, which immediately breeds resentment, and because she's not all sweetness and light about it, she's immediately a bad person. Bullshit.

It's not against the law to be an asshole. And if I had the chance, I'd indulge in insider trading...I'd be stupid not to, really.

[kwolfhard.livejournal.com]

See, I feel completely different than that. I've seen her as likeable, but when the word got out that she was part of insider trading - that is when she became bad for me.

Insider trading represents one of the worst crimes contemporary times has seen. It is corruption at its worst, and often connected to bad politics, too. I really do think that Stewart receives every bit of villification that she's received thus far.

[quasilemur.livejournal.com]

Capitalism is arguably one of the worst crimes contemporary times has seen. Seriously, though, I've never seen insider trading as all that bad, all things considered. Our society is set up to reward ambition, and using whatever one can to get ahead, even when morally ambiguous (or even reprehensible). As such, punishing someone for it in this particular case seems somewhat arbitrary.
Screwed up as life under our corporate masters is, it seems silly to take offense at someone using the tools available to get ahead, particularly when Conglomco just put 50,000 people out of work to raise the stocks of their BoD a tenth of a point.

[carlomelo.livejournal.com]

hahahah....I'm ok with Martha Stewart......
*sees your icon* Oh my god! I remember that pic of Hooch I drew on the HP oekaki..... ^^

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Wow, you did it? Cool! This was my default icon for the longest time, I love it!

(Eh, belatedly: Do you mind if I use it? :) )

[carlomelo.livejournal.com]

Sure you can use it! I'm glad you liked it!! ^^

[wanderingscribe.livejournal.com]

Hmm, I don't know about how I feel about Martha. I've watched her cooking show and it just seems to me that she's patronizing and full of herself. I don't like people like that. It's fine to succeed, just don't act like an ass about it.

But when it comes to the whole insider-trading, since I ignore her on the principle of 'out of sight, out of mind', I don't care about her either way. I'm glad she has the fortitude to admit she did something considered illegal, but I really don't care if she *is* a criminal or not.

Good grief, I hope my ambivalence made *some* sense at least.