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Pwning n00bs on the county's dime: priceless

Posted on March 14, 2008
Forget about Spitzer’s high priced hooker, this is a “waste of taxpayer money” I can understand! Emphasis mine: A computer that Rockwall County District Attorney Ray Sumrow says he built as a backup server for his office contained documents related…

Me and that sidewalk, we were in love, mate

Posted on March 14, 2008
A British teenager shows his love in the strangest of ways: Motorists looked on in shock as Steven Marshall, 18, hauled down his trousers and started to simulate sex on the floor. Marshall ? drinking while taking pills for arthritis…

How you doin?

Posted on March 13, 2008
As always, The Smoking Gun is there, this time with pictures of the pricey Lady of the Night what brought down Eliot Spitzer. I dunno … she’s an attractive gal and all, but I’m not sure I’d risk my Governorship…

Note to self -- when folks in charge of your taxes ask if they can buy something from you, you say "yes"

Posted on March 13, 2008
In Morgantown, West Virginia, homeowner Jim Jones is a bit pissed off over the increase in his property taxes. So he filed a complaint with the County Commission, which now says there is nothing wrong with the tax increase, as…

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Taste the Rainbow, bitches

Posted on March 13, 2008
The way some Connecticut school administrators were acting, you’d think it was Skittles that was ruining the nation, instead of the homosexual agenda. Thankfully, they’ve recently come to their senses: School officials have decided to go light on an eighth-grader…

Crazy Oklahoma Rep Gets Death Threats, Bad Hair Advice

Posted on March 13, 2008
A few weeks ago, Oklahoma state representative Sally Kern wanted everyone to know that the “homosexual agenda is destroying this nation, that’s just a fact.” Matter of fact, she said, “No society that has totally embraced homosexuality has embraced more…

Baby "Born to Run," Should've Run Faster

Posted on March 13, 2008
What happens when your “de facto husband” (whatever that means) stops playing your favorite Springsteen tune? That’s a stabbin’! A woman stabbed her de facto husband to death after he stopped her playing her favourite Bruce Springsteen CD...

The Daily Memo - 3/13/08

Posted on March 13, 2008
Is it ironic or lazy if I copy this headline verbatim: “The New Originalism: Answering the Questions Nobody Asks?” See what I did there, playing on “originalism.” Damn straight! (Concurring Opinions) “High-Prices Call Girls’ Lips are Sealed...

Well hey, when you gotta go, you gotta go

Posted on March 13, 2008
Uhm … yuck. Authorities are considering charges in the bizarre case of a woman who sat on her boyfriend’s toilet for two years — so long that her body was stuck to the seat by the time the boyfriend finally…

That's not a knife ... this is a knife spork!

Posted on March 13, 2008
What the hell am I supposed to do with this story other than laugh? Anchorage police have arrested a suspect in an armed robbery. Now they’re trying to determine if the weapon involved was a spork — a hybrid of…

Ain't No Party Like a Clinton Party!

Posted on March 12, 2008
That’s true, at least when you’re referring to a Bill party. But Hillary? These poor Scranton kids (home of Dunder Mifflin!) have apparently been brainwashed by whitebread school administrators to throw their hands in the air like they just don’t…

Maybe we should paint math and science classrooms pink, too?

Posted on March 12, 2008
Ok, I’m looking for my friend Tammy to speak up in the comments on this one, because as a chick who’s gotten a PhD in a scientific field where there ain’t many gals, she’s much more qualified to comment on…

No? Really?!

Posted on March 12, 2008
This may come as a complete surprise to most of you, but it’s apparently true: Lawyers are in it for the money. A recent survey by Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions found money held different levels of influence among pre-law…

The Daily Memo - 3/12/08

Posted on March 12, 2008
Eliot Spitzer’s little, uhm, slip up, has folks asking if prostitution should even be illegal in the first place. (Above the Law and Slate) “Italian high court rules that women wearing jeans cannot be victims of rape.” Yup — a…

Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale, a tale of a fateful bust...

Posted on March 12, 2008
…That started with a lil’ dimebag, and an arrest that’s so unjust. The driver was named Dawn Wells, better known as Mary Ann, A friend of hers tried to take the fall, at least that was the plan … at…

Silda Wall: WTF?

Posted on March 12, 2008
The New York Times has a fascinating profile on Elliot Spitzer’s wife, Silda Wall, in today’s paper. In it, the Times reports that it’s actually Silda who — inexplicably — is trying to convince her husband to stay on as…

The FDA says "spit, don't swallow"

Posted on March 12, 2008
So yeah, there are a lot of stupid people out there, right? Well the latest example of such stupidity comes from several reports the FDA has received of folks swallowing the drug capsules that are supposed to be plugged into…

Go To Sleep, My Precious. I SAID GO TO SLEEP MOTHERFUCKER

Posted on March 11, 2008
The parents of two preschoolers are suing the Bronx School District, alleging that their two sons — aged 4 at the time of the incident — were taken out of class, handcuffed by a school safety officer, moved to an…

Today in C*nt Punditry!

Posted on March 11, 2008
Anne Coulter, ever the classy pundit: The mainstream media said she was finished, but our brave Hillary soldiered on to wallop B. Hussein Obama in Ohio, Texas and Rhode Island Tuesday night. I don’t know what the MSM is so…

Where the Hell is PETA on This?

Posted on March 11, 2008
Hillary Clinton is not only a candidate for President, she’s an animal torturer: “You all know how to boil a frog don’t you?” she asked the folks in Mississippi, which votes Tuesday. “Yeah!” some in the crowd yelled...

Latest Mother of the Year Candidate

Posted on March 11, 2008
Christine Aaron, a 34-year-old Oklahoma woman, laughs at Todd Hansford and his whole “showing up to get his kids while drunk” business. She farts in his general direction. She drinks his milkshake, because she’s not the one who shows up…

The Daily Memo - 3/11/08

Posted on March 11, 2008
An Arkansas cop has been suspended over video showing him using a departmental stun gun to tase a cow. (The Morning News) Don’t pay your rent? Get evicted. Don’t want to get evicted? Well, whatever you do, don’t play with…

Just the Good Part ...

Posted on March 11, 2008
After nearly a full day of coverage, late night shows run amock, and a good deal of ink devoted to the subject, we here at QuizLaw bring you the goods. Here’s what the case against Elliot Spitzer all boils down…

Latest Father of the Year Candidate

Posted on March 11, 2008
Congratulations to Todd Hansford, a Wisconsin man who is the latest to announce his candidacy for father of the year. He made this announcement in spectacular fashion, by showing up to pick his kids up from day care totally shitfaced.:…

And cute puppies everywhere can breathe a huge sigh of relief

Posted on March 11, 2008
The Wisconsin Senate has passed a bill which now allows pets to get domestic abuse restraining orders. Well, technically, it lets their owners include the pets on restraining orders that they get, but it’s pretty much the same thing. While…

Prostitutophobe Comes Out of the Closet

Posted on March 10, 2008
It turns out that the governor of the great state of New York (where I live, incidentally) “acted in a way that violated the obligations to my family and that violates my ? or any ? sense of right and…

Car Surfer Catches Nasty Wave; Wipes Out

Posted on March 10, 2008
There’s a huge, ugly hidden danger lurking in towns and cities all across these United States, one right underneath your nose. They’re called “speed bumps,” and they’re endangering the youth of America: An 18-year-old man using a shopping cart to…

The Daily Memo - 3/10/08

Posted on March 10, 2008
Oh yeah … remember that whole fired U.S. attorneys business from last year? Well Dahlia Lithwick does, and she makes the new book from one such fired dude sound like quite the interesting read. (Slate) So it turns out that…

Uhm, I appreciate folks trying to be all neighborly and all...

Posted on March 10, 2008
…but when your neighbor comes over at five in the morning and asks to borrow your gun, nine times out ten this is going to be a bad idea. Such was the case when Meloney Jackson borrowed her neighbor’s gun…

Don't be cruel...

Posted on March 10, 2008
I often rag on criminal defendants who show up to the courthouse drunk. But David Blaisell — you, sir, are excused from my normal scorn. Sure, he’s just like all the others I diss, showing up to court tossed at…

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