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Killing a fly with a bazooka – Wisconsin prison guards use grenade inside cell and try and cover up the evidence
File this under “holy shit!” Wisconsin prison guards decided to toss a “non lethal” grenade into a prisoner’s cell. This grenade usually is used for outdoor crowd control. Naturally, the use of such a device on a 135 lb inmate seemed like excessive force, and the inmate received a $49,000 settlement. But then the Wisconsin prison officials didn’t want to
The Weblog Awards
Whatever. I mean, yeah, it would be sweet as hell to win. I’m not holding my breath though. Nevertheless, if you want to go vote for us, click here and vote up the generous nomination that Mr. King provided.
Scott Greenfield – The Conscience of the Bar
Between his criticism of scaring clients and the difference between “anyone can blog” and “everyone can blog”, I think that Scott just might have a higher calling than his practice. I know I might sound like I am being a smartass. I am not (this time). If Scotty were in charge, this would be a better profession — to the
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Eric Holder in his younger days. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pK5HmuCMBM]
Mickey Mouse sues Donald Duck
Yes, really. The sad thing is, its not the dumbest complaint I’ve ever seen filed in the Southern District of Flori-duh.
Porn is "inescapable"
Monica Hesse, a writer for the Washington Post, seems to have a porn paranoia issue. Her article “Publicly, a whole new lewdness” has a decidedly Comstockian bent to it. But, the subtitle is even more hilarious: “Everywhere you look, porn is suddenly inescapable.” People like Hesse are proof that evolution has failed. If she finds porn to be “inescapable,” I
This is SPARTA!!!!
Okay, not exactly… but the Citizen Media Law Project has launched its Online Media Law Network. Good coverage of it here by one of my favorite journalists.
Jackassletters.com
This must be one of the strangest, but (to me at least) funniest public hobbies on the internet. Christopher Jorgensen writes letters with just the right dash of snark and silliness and sends them off to various companies and famous people, and then posts their replies. He has suggested a urine absorbent thong line for Victoria’s secret, called hooey on
Will Phillips, age 10, First Amendment Bad Ass
Will Phillips – you are the First Amendment Bad Ass of the month. Will’s family has a number of gay friends. In recent years, Laura Phillips said, they’ve been trying to be a straight ally to the gay community, going to the pride parades and standing up for the rights of their gay and lesbian neighbors. They’ve been especially dismayed
Anonymous Hooker Blogger Outed
by Jason Fischer If you’re a fan of Showtime‘s adult series “Secret Diary of a Call Girl” (or even if you aren’t), you may be interested to know that the real-life anonymous author of the blog and book that inspired the series went public earlier this week. (Source) Dr. Brooke Magnanti, Ph.D. in informatics, epidemiology and forensic science, in an
Belichick made the right call
Statistically speaking. UPDATE: Freakonomics concurs.
Even Sarah Palin is Awesome Sometimes
In her “book,” Palin throws a little unoriginal wit at prey vegetarians. “If any vegans came over for dinner, I could whip them up a salad, then explain my philosophy on being a carnivore: If God had not intended for us to eat animals, how come He made them out of meat?” (source) I say “unoriginal,” because I had a
ABA seeks a bailout – we should bail out the legal profession by disbanding the ABA
The American Bar Association thinks that the U.S. government should give law grads a bailout by letting them convert their private loans into government loans. (source) The American Bar Association thinks that there is a crisis in the profession caused by too much debt. Yes, the ABA — that festering slop bucket of do-nothing bozos who stamped their seal of
Rhode Island Governor Carcieri – You're a Dick
So much for me being a smug New Englander who thinks that the Northeast is intellectually superior to the peckerwood hellholes of the Confederacy. Hot on the heels of Maine voters deciding that they don’t want all eight gay couples who live in Maine to have the right to marry who they want, Rhode Island Governor Carcieri vetoed a bill
MEEP – M33P is teh L33T!
Today, I was at the Children’s museum in San Diego, and I scrawled MEEP on the chalkboard. You know why? Because it’s my goddamned right to do so, and because Danvers High School is run by asshats. Apparently, students at Danvers High, in Massachusetts, have adopted a little meme of using the word “meep” as a catch-all / one-word-sentence. This
Damn Dirty Apes! A Call to Arms!
Ladies and gentlemen, I have a few questions for you. I’m just asking… no, I’m not just asking, I’m RAISING THE ALARM!!!!! More terrifying than SARS, Bird Flu, and H1N1 combined. More scarier than a SHOE BOMB wearing SOCIALIST! Its…. THE DAMN DIRTY APES!!!!! Everyone laughed at Zippy the Chimp, and Clyde from the Any Which Way movies… but did
I Believe . . . South Carolina Just Got Schooled On the First Amendment
By: Zac Papantoniou “Whatever else the Establishment Clause may mean (and we have held it to mean no official preference even for religion over nonreligion), . . . it certainly means at the very least that government may not demonstrate a preference for one particular sect or creed (including a preference for Christianity over other religions). The clearest command of
Best. Wedding. Ever.
The St. Petersburg Times reports: TAMPA — Mary Wright, 74, was thrilled Sunday night to see her grandson marry his longtime sweetheart in a beautiful, white wedding at the waterfront Rusty Pelican Restaurant. Thrilled, that is, until she found herself with a stranger’s hands around her neck — amid a sprawling melee involving 30 to 40 wedding guests that resulted
Ike Turner was just trying to teach Tina about critical race theory!
Lionel McIntyre, a black Columbia professor, got drunk and pissed off about “white privilege,” and at a white female colleague who didn’t seem to agree with him. So, what did he do about it? He laid the smack down on the uppity bitch. That’ll teach her. But Professor McIntyre wanted to make sure that he got his pedagogical message across
