Sweet revenge!

Isn’t that forbidden by the 8th Amendment?

till today i couldn’t have cared less about all this drama, but after hearing her call herself one of the ‘little people’ on 20/20 tonight, I have to say I hope she stays out of prison. Really, someone that delusional deserves psychiatric care and not incarceration.  She’s funny. Though I’m not sure she means to be. 

within a week, she’ll have worked out a way to re-dye the linens using a simple homemade mixture of urine and the dregs of prison juice boxes, and perfected a special knot that lets her turn the fitted sheet into a hammock (that will give her a more comfortable sleeping arrangement, and - bonus - open up some valuable storage space on the top of the bed).  after all ... it’s a good thing.

Chained Heat: The Martha Chronicles

I hope she contracts the clap.

I have to say that I walked away from that Barbara Walters interview feeling LESS sympathy for Martha than before.  Did you catch the part where she said she’s not afraid of prison becuase she has been camping before, and she doesn’t mind sleeping on the floor?

She’s totally gonna be somebody’s bitch.

i agree with patricia. she needs professional help in a major way. making her sleep on her own designs will only exacerbate her insanity. eh. at least in a psych hospital they have arts & crafts everyday…

Okay, I’m going to just come right out and say it: I don’t think that what’s happening to Martha Stewart in the public media circus is fair.

I mean, sure, none of us like her, but that’s not really the point.  The point is that she’s doing jail time for a relatively minor crime, while massive a--holes like Kenneth Lay, who did far more damage not only to the system but to you and me directly, are able to basically buy their way out of doing anything approaching serious hard time.  (This might change in the near future for Mr. Lay, and I am praying that this will be so, but as for right now, well, my point stands.)

Silly and even reprehensible though you may find Martha to be (and believe me, I am no fan), ultimately, what was Martha Stewart trying to do?  Show people how to entertain.  That’s all.  She might be a bit odd personally, her choice of product endorsements might be a little suspect, but in the end, really, she was only trying to help.  If she made a little money doing that, I don’t really have a problem.  If she tried to avoid losing a lot of money with a little insider tip, well--wouldn’t you do the same thing, under the same circumstances?

She got caught and is doing the time for it, and to the extent that she broke the law and is being punished, I don’t have a problem with that per se.  But the people who always thought of her as being a little weird--e.g. most of us--are now having a bit of a field day, or field months, given how this has played out ever since the scandal broke.

I just think a little perspective is in order.  I didn’t see the interview she did with Barbara Walters, but Martha Stewart is in my mind at least just a person who is very nervous about going to jail.  I know I would be.  And I’m aware of the fact that I’m probably ruining all the haha here, but I just needed to vent a little.

Although the reality show trend is quite annoying, me thinks I would pay good money to watch a live feed of Martha’s day to day tribulations in prison. Of course not the prison where she will probably end up, which, like you hinted at, will probably only punish her by making her “rough it” in her own Kmart inspired linens. Instead perhaps we should make her work AT Kmart. That MIGHT take it full circle.

you just know she is going to find the biggest baddest woman there and kick her ass on the first day. 

martha is nobody’s bitch. 

Make the punishment fit the crime. She should have to SHOP at K-Mart. OR, even better, she should have to shop at Wal-Mart, compare prices, and use coupons. Then, when she gets to the check-out, have her MasterCard declined, and have the person at the register announce it, VERY LOUDLY, so that she’s properly humiliated, and then ahs to stand there while the the cashier deletes EVERYTHING item-by-item, all the while complaining that she shoulda been on her break fifteen minutes ago, and is going to be late for her nail appointment for the SECOND time and they’re going to charge her extra because…

Oh, wait, huh? What were we talking about? 

Jail time is not appropriate in this case. She has more money than God and is obviously extremely fond of it. A HUGE fine plus community service would have benefitted everyone to a greater extent. If she had to sell her estates and teach poor women how to sell their handicrafts on ebay or set-up businesses, she would have been punished and the public would have gotten something out of all this--mess. She may not be popular with many but she’s not threat to the public.

I figured I’d wait till this one petered out a bit.

Minimum sentencing guidelines put many non-violent and hardly ‘threatening’ criminals behind bars based upon the conviction and sentence. You don’t get to decide how dangerous Martha is until each convict gets the same treatment. Perhaps her jail-time will cause her to ACTUALLY do something good and spend some money educating the public about mandatory minimum sentencing guidelines. 

To hell with the selfish bitch. And yes, I do sleep on the floor too - so I’m hard like Martha.

I am the exact opposite of Martha, the anti-Martha, if you will, and I would HATE to be in that prison, white collar or not.  The house arrest part would be cool with me, though.