Miscellaneous

Yeah, but isn't everyone in rural Wisconsin always drunk? So of course they're all drunk driving!

Posted on February 15, 2008
Sometimes, listening to your drunk boyfriend will get you nothing but trouble: A rural Fox Lake woman early Sunday was able to give a detailed description of a suspected drunken driver and the suspect 's vehicle to a Dodge County sheriff 's dispatcher...

Braaaaaaaaaaaaaaains....

Posted on February 15, 2008
God bless this Reuters headline: "Man struggles to return from the dead." Seems a man who drowned last August was wrongly identified by Polish police as a perfectly alive 38-year-old. Piotr Kucy showed up at "his funeral" and has since tried to get the government to change his official status from "dead" to "not dead," with little luck...

Dipshit Much?

Posted on February 14, 2008
I'd like to welcome Benjamin Straight, a 2L at the University of Florida, into the blogging world. Benjamin has started a blog entitled, "Big Daddy Thunder," and though he's only written two posts so far, I can already tell that this guy is going places...

This Man Has Clearly Never Seen a Black Baby

Posted on February 14, 2008
A Utah State Senator apparently believes that only babies from his master race are cute. Republican Sen. Chris Buttars compared Senate Bill 48, which addresses equalizing school construction funds, to a black baby, calling it "a dark, ugly thing." Oh, but don't worry...

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The Daily Memo - 2/14/08

Posted on February 14, 2008
Dildos in the headline of a blawg entry. Need I have more excuse to throw a link Lat's way? (Above the Law) A Charleston, West Virginia radio station is celebrating Valentine's Day by offering to give some lucky romantic listener a divorce, lawyer, money and hassle free...

Oh yeah? Well. We. Can. Better.

Posted on February 14, 2008
Whatever with Obama and his Yes.We.Can. nonsense. This right here is the real video of the election. And if you can make it past the 55-second mark, you're a better man than I. Even if you're a woman. Hat tip to friend of our sister site Beckyloo, who's seen the error of her stumping-for-Obama ways, over at If a TV Falls in the Woods...

Again, so soon?

Posted on February 14, 2008
It was only a mere matter of weeks ago that I told you the asshat who got in a bad car accident, with all appearances that his beer was safely buckled up while he was not. Well now comes a story from Florida (naturally) where Tina Williams decided to take this story to its next horrible level...

Well you kinda have to be blind to eat at Taco Bell -- I mean, have you actually seen the shit they slop into taco shell?

Posted on February 14, 2008
A federal appeals court has suggested that the Americans with Disabilities Act just might require fastfood workers to be polite to the disabled. Last week, a federal court in NY overruled a lower ruling, saying that Alice Camarillo could sue various chains under the ADA...

Barack Obama - Traffic Scofflaw!

Posted on February 14, 2008
Did you know that while he was living in Somerville (Somerville, represent!) and attending Harvard Law School, Barack racked up a strong 17 traffic violations, including seven in an eight-day stretch? And better yet, while this was from 1988 through 1991, he didn't actually pay those violations until last year, almost two decades later...

Because We Here at QuizLaw Love Our Readers ...

Posted on February 13, 2008
... here's 46 seconds of your life you'll never get back. You're welcome!

Further Misadventures of Awesome Cops

Posted on February 13, 2008
Two days ago, we featured a video of a drunk woman getting groped and photographed by police officers; yesterday, we featured a douchebag cop (now suspended) berating a 14-year-old skateboarder; and today, we bring you video evidence of a cop helping a quadriplegic out of his wheelchair...

Live Free or Starve Slowly and Whither Away to Death

Posted on February 13, 2008
Betty Hall, an 87-year-old, 14-term New Hampshire State Representative, has not only introduced a resolution to the state house to impeach Bush and Cheney (who knew state legislature's had such power?), but she apparently refuses to eat again until impeachment proceedings begin...

Lesbians = Animal Pornographers?

Posted on February 13, 2008
I can't decide if this story suggests that Sweden is a progressive country or a backwards one. The court confirmed an earlier district court ruling in favor of a lesbian who had sought damages from a kennel owner who refused to sell her a puppy because of her sexual preference...

The Daily Memo - 2/13/08

Posted on February 13, 2008
Phooey! A current California state bill would allow the cops to start putting up speed cameras. My lead foot is already crying at the thought of all the tickets coming my way. (LAist) Who do I have to blow for a bonus like this? Transmeta Corp. has been sued over the fact that it gave it's in-house general counsel a $10 million bonus...

The Fourth Estate Just Evicted an Upstanding Member

Posted on February 13, 2008
Chez Pazienza, a friend of the site and occasional contributor on our sister site, Pajiba, was fired today as a senior producer on CNN's "American Morning." Why? For blogging, of course. He was dumped unceremoniously, with no severance, for writing about his (mostly distasteful) opinions on the media on his blog Deus Ex Malcontent...

"The Wire" is right -- it's just impossible to get good po-lice work done anymore

Posted on February 13, 2008
You know, this is ridiculous. Throughout our country, the police are vastly underpaid and largely overworked. And yet, they're still able to put some good cases together now and again. But what do they get for their ingenuity and initiative. Judicial declarations that they're being "outrageous," with perfectly good criminal cases thrown out...

Lawsuit Day, Part 2!

Posted on February 13, 2008
Earlier, I gave you Lawsuit Day, Part 1! Well, we've got two lawsuits to cover in Part 2. Turns out that Defamer reported on many of these same lawsuits, and even dubbed yesterday "Everybody's Suing Everybody Day." ...Damn it. That's totally a better name than "Lawsuit Day...

Lawsuit Day, Part 1!

Posted on February 13, 2008
Man, there were so many stories about lawsuits yesterday that it was like a friggin holiday, I'll tell you what. First, I read a story about 20th Century Fox suing Warner Brothers over the upcoming Watchmen flick. Seems 20th Century owned the movie rights from 1986 through 1990...

No fatties allowed

Posted on February 13, 2008
From Australia comes this great bit about the latest crazy bride trend: Some brides want bridesmaids to sign contracts promising not to put on weight or get pregnant before the big day, a survey has found. More than one in five women planning weddings would ask their maid-of-honour to sign a written bridal "pre-nuptial agreement"...

This is the biggest bunch of bullshit ever

Posted on February 12, 2008
In LA, it's currently illegal for cabs to stop and pick folks up in places other than designated areas, cab stands and loading areas and the like. It's ridiculous -- when I left court last week, I had to walk five blocks to get a friggin cab, instead of being able to hail one of the dozen empty cabs that zoomed past me during that time (serves me right for not just driving, like every other Angelino)...

This has me thinking -- maybe it's Danny Devito who's really supposed to be the California Governor

Posted on February 12, 2008
From my fine home-city of Philadelphia comes a wonderful tale of brotherly love: A traffic judge apologized to a man who was hounded for 17 years by officials trying to get his similarly named twin brother to resolve $1,800 in unpaid tickets and fines...

Kierkegaard in '08

Posted on February 12, 2008
I am officially withdrawing my support for Barack Obama in 2008, and endorsing Kierkegaard. He's the only candidate that supports an "attainable objective morality."

A QuizLaw Retrospective: John McCain

Posted on February 12, 2008
In our hard-hitting, continuing coverage of Election '08, we look back today to 1998 and unearth this bon mot from John McCain: "Why is Chelsea Clinton so ugly? Because her father is Janet Reno." Funny? Or tasteless? And while we're on the subject of McCain, how about this quote, from 2000? "I hated the gooks...

The Daily Memo - 2/12/08

Posted on February 12, 2008
Blawg Review #146 learns us that February 11th is National Inventor's Day. Who knew? (The Invent Blog) Back in '98, John McCain apparently tried to bring the funny at Chelsea Clinton's expense. All class, that guy. (Crooks and Liars) A former cop in Ohio admits that he elbowed his pregnant lover in the throat but no, he did not kill her, because hitting a woman is just hitting a woman, you know? (FindLaw) If there's some admiralty law in your hedgerow, don't be alarmed now...

Yes I'm still bitter the Giants won the Super Bowl, damn it!

Posted on February 12, 2008
In Richmond, Virginia, state legislators have little to do with their time. So Senator Patricia Ticer has introduced a bill that would remove all statutory references to the terms "mentally retarded" and "mental retardation," instead replacing them with the oh-so-friendly and feel-good "intellectually disabled" and "intellectual disability...

Stop Calling Me Dude!

Posted on February 12, 2008
One of QuizLaw's illustrious readers, Diablo, pointed us toward a Baltimore cop who clearly doesn't know how to deal with children. Dude: Step off, motherfucker. Power-trip much? He's freakin' 14-years-old? Maybe you could use your non-douchebag voice, huh?

It's like a nightmare come to life

Posted on February 11, 2008
The CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference, is a GOP stronghold, and Bush was there last Friday, ostensibly stumping for McCain, without actually saying his name. And when Bush walked onto the stage, it was not only to raucous applause, but to chants of: "Four more years! Four more years!" Jesus Christ, what is wrong with these fucking people?

Does IRAC apply to love?

Posted on February 11, 2008
Yes, in general, men in love can become idiots. Happens to the best of us. But when you mix sex and love and sexual shenanigans into the world of law school, shit goes to new levels of idiocy. If you ever meet Dustin or I in person, we'll have a beer with you and throw some stories from our own experiences in law school that'll make you just shake your head and cry for the future of this country (or just wait until the movie, which will be coming one day not-very-soon to a theater near you)...

Political wonking

Posted on February 11, 2008
I eat lunch with the same group of folks at work almost every day, and without fail, the conversation turns to politics at some point during every lunch conversation, which has two amusing results. First, one of the people immediately tunes out from the conversation, as she is simply not all that interested in political wonking...

Police Take Advantage of Drunk Girl

Posted on February 11, 2008
There were no criminal charges filed, of course, because groping a drunk woman in a police station is perfectly legal. Christ.

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