Maybe I just imagined that my bazillionaire, sugar-mama friend had a secret weapon that makes her more successful than me…

New at Reason: One day Mariana Pasternak, Martha Stewart's layabout sponge of a best friend, hangs the defendant with a damning quote. Now Pasternak says the quote may actually have come from her own stream of consciousness. You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to figure this one out. Elizabeth Koch reports from the trial.