Miscellaneous

I'm a Bandwagon Poseur!

Posted on February 11, 2008
I want to thank JMW for taking the bait and responding to my challenge last week to address Barack Obama's perceived weaknesses -- that his soaring rhetoric lacks policy substance. I encourage those still on the Hillary/Obama fence to check out the entire post, but here's a taste: Sometimes elections -- if they're between candidates who aren't radically opposed -- really aren't about policy...

Lost in Translation?

Posted on February 11, 2008
H/T to the Manhattan Offender, via Gawker.

The Daily Memo - 2/11/08

Posted on February 11, 2008
The Oregon Supremes thumb their noses at the real Supremes, reinstating the whole $75.9 million punitive damages award against Philip Morris, an award the Supremes overturned last year. (Law.com But your honor, it is total bullshit! (Legal Antics) Two civil liberties groups are taking it to the Department of Homeland Security over excessive searches/screenings of folks' laptops and cellphones, with agents snooping through people's data...

ZERO Tolerance, Motherf*ckers!!!!

Posted on February 11, 2008
The people of Dubai can rest easy knowing that the eternal vigilance at their airport has once again brought down a drug smuggler and criminal mastermind. A father-of-three who was found with a microscopic speck of cannabis stuck to the bottom of one of his shoes has been sentenced to four years in a Dubai prison...

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Those astronomers ... nothing but trouble

Posted on February 08, 2008
Down in the Florida Keys, the local authorities are on the hunt for a stolen space rock. Seems there was an amateur astronomer gathering earlier this week, and by the next morning, a green-brown meteorite worth ten grand was missing. First of all, that's what they get for letting amateur astronomers hang around the rock...

Sincerely Yours, The Breakfast Club.

Posted on February 08, 2008
Congressional Representative Larry Liston, (R-Colorado) bitched on Wednesday that society not only condones premarital sex, but that there's no longer a sense of shame in unmarried teens having children. "In my parents' day and age, they were sent away, they were shunned, they were called what they are...

The Daily Memo - 2/8/08

Posted on February 08, 2008
Here's a quite interesting take on how Obama works with other law professor types and how he might go about picking judges (and Hillary's talked of a little, too). (Slate) And what of McCain and his judicial picks? Seems that Alito isn't so neato. (Slate) America's Next Top Law Review? Hell, it'd be better than "ANTM" simply by not having the mighty forehead, Tyra Banks, on it...

Tacky Headline of the Day

Posted on February 08, 2008
... from the Sun Online. *groan*

The Real Quote of the Campaign

Posted on February 08, 2008
Earlier this week, Dustin proclaimed that Mitt Romney was responsible for the quote of the campaign. Well he was right, he just spoke too soon. Look at the shit that spewed out of Romney's mouth yesterday, when he announced that he was suspending his campaign: If I fight on in my campaign, all the way to the convention, I would forestall the launch of a national campaign and make it more likely that Senator Clinton or Obama would win...

Re-what-now?

Posted on February 08, 2008
"The economy is failing. Recession. Recession I say!!!" Calm down, Chicken Little. Things may have been looking a little rough there for a while, but you don't need to go around throwing that nasty *whisper* r *whisper* word anymore. No-siree-bob. Because Congress is here to fix all our economic woes! That's right - economic stimulus is on the horizon, as the House and Senate both passed a bill that'll send a $600 rebate to everyone who makes less than $75,000 a year (and couples making less than $150K will get $1200), plus $300 for each kid...

Crush on Obama Does Not Extend to Actual Vote

Posted on February 07, 2008
Oh, Obama Girl. ?I didn?t get a chance to vote today because I?m not registered to vote in New York,? she said. So where is Obama Girl registered to vote? ?New Jersey.? Um, but didn?t New Jersey also hold a primary? True. The problem, she explained, was that she was sick in New York City and was unable to get back across the Hudson River to the polls in Jersey City...

I'm already placing an order for some new business cards

Posted on February 07, 2008
Over in England, "celebrity lawyer" Nick Freeman has trademarked his nickname. Wait ... celebrity lawyer. *quick Google search commences* Well, looking at his Wikipedia page, I recognize a few names (Sir Alex Ferguson, Becks and Wayne Rooney), so ok, whatever...

The Daily Memo - 2/7/08

Posted on February 07, 2008
Bus gets in accident and man jumps on afterwards, claiming injury. Great opportunist or greatest opportunist? (Overlawyered) New Mexico legislation involving the roadrunner and Wile E. Coyote. Great state legislation or greatest state legislation? (Supreme Dicta) Mmmmmm ...

Yes. We. Can. ... What?

Posted on February 07, 2008
On Super Tuesday, I ultimately followed through on my threat to toss my Hillary loyalty aside and vote for Obama (a lot of good it did), though not without a small amount of reservation. I still can't quite get past the notion that I might be relieved if Hillary ends up winning the nomination (I am, if anything, one of those obnoxious bastards that changes his mind from one day to the next)...

Way to suck the fun out of it

Posted on February 07, 2008
Florida strikes again, with a little help from their friends in the Golden State. Hundreds of Florida voters called officials Tuesday, asking when and where do they vote for the Super Tuesday primaries. Now this would have been an example of good citizenship...

Buzzkill!

Posted on February 07, 2008
Whatever man. Just cause a few college kids can't hold their booze, you gotta take away the fun for everyone? In Minnesota, four kids have died since last fall in alcohol-related incidents, so a state legislator wants to get rid of drink specials, putting the kibosh on bottomless beer cups and drink specials for ladies...

Department of F$#%ing Awesome

Posted on February 07, 2008
I have no words, except to say that videos like this one are the reason why QuizLaw exists.

What Does Anal Poisoning Even Mean?

Posted on February 06, 2008
If you've paid attention to the Republican presidential campaign at all over the last week or so, you no doubt know about both Anne Coulter's and Rush Limbaugh's distaste for John McCain. I know that Coulter has avowed to vote for Hillary before McCain, and I believe that Limbaugh has suggested that he'd rather see a Democrat blamed for the direction the country is heading toward (thanks G...

The Daily Memo - 2/6/08

Posted on February 06, 2008
Derek Jeter (swallows!) has settled his little tax case with New York. (ESPN) Which BigLaw firms are like which presidential candidates? (The New York Observer) "Should your personal online chronicles jeopardize your career?" Lest the TV Whore spell the end of my own BigLaw career, I sure as hell hope not (unless someone wants to start paying the TV Whore what BigLaw pays, that is!)...

Kids steal the darndest things

Posted on February 06, 2008
Stoned college kids everywhere understand this 11-year-old's motives: An investigation into an armed robbery in which cheesy bread and buffalo wings were taken from a pizza delivery driver in LaPlace last week led authorities to an unlikely suspect: a hungry 11-year-old boy...

Well better this than their version of of Hawkins v. McGee!

Posted on February 06, 2008
Courtesy of The Billable Hour, with a hattip to Legal Antics, comes the Beavis and Butthead version of the classic law school case Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad: (And Hawkins, for you lucky non-law students who don't know such things, is a case lovingly referred to as the "hairy hand" case...

What the Christ? It's cold out -- open up already!

Posted on February 06, 2008
As you surely know, folks all over this great land hit the polls yesterday for Super Tuesday, with 24 states holding caucuses or primaries. But not everything went as smooth as one would hope. In Wisconsin, Ethel Goodwin and a handful of others were lined up outside of their polling place nice at early, at 6:30 a...

But the Corpse Never Said No

Posted on February 06, 2008
A man accused of biting and knifing a model to death so that he could have sex with her in her own driveway has offered up a defense worthy of Perry Mason, if Perry Mason were drunk, deranged, and ass-crazy desperate: [Mark] Dixie admits having sex with Miss Bowman as she lay in a pool of blood -- but claims she was already dead when he found her...

Stripper Outwits Horny Moron

Posted on February 06, 2008
Damn dirty thieving prostitutes -- they're so untrustworthy. A 19 year-old man recently called the Merced County Sheriff?s Department for assistance after a woman he was going to pay for sex allegedly stole his money. Sheriff?s spokesman Tom MacKenzie said the man called the sheriff?s department at 4:54 p...

Georgia on My Mind Part 2

Posted on February 06, 2008
In the kind of event that truly makes us "Florida's Canada", two police officers are recovering after being caught in a shootout. With each other. At about 1 p.m. Friday, authorities say, Fulton County police officer Paul Phillips, 37, was on his way home in suburban Sugar Hill...

Quote of the Campaign

Posted on February 05, 2008
?I am definitely the underdog compared to Sen. McCain, a number of people have proclaimed that? But the nice thing about being the underdog is they typically win.? ... Mitt Romney, clearly displaying a misunderstanding of the term "underdog."

Just Let It Go Already

Posted on February 05, 2008
Losing a loved one is painful, even moreso when your loved one is as beloved as John Ritter was, and when that loved one dies so unexpectedly. But, come on. The family of John Ritter -- his wife and four children -- have already received $14 million from several medical entities, including the hospital where he was treated...

We're here! We're bigots! Get used to it!

Posted on February 05, 2008
Last week, the ACLU filed a lawsuit against Ponce de Leon High School in Florida, alleging that the school is stomping on students' First Amendment rights. Specifically, the school has allegedly told students that they can't put rainbow stickers on their notebooks, because anything showing support for the gays is disruptive...

The Daily Memo -2/5/08

Posted on February 05, 2008
Arrrrrrrrrrr, matey. Ye can't beat pirates with copyright laws! (BBC News ) You think your landlord sucks? At least he doesn't unload rounds into the ceiling from the apartment below you. (WTAM) Well it was only a matter of time before the paths of the Supremes and "Saved by the Bell" crossed paths...

These stories never cease to amuse me

Posted on February 05, 2008
Adrian, Michigan is where we find Frank Kozumplik. ...Kozumplik? Isn't that the imp from the fifth dimension who fucks with Superman until Supes can trick him into saying his name backwards? Anyway, Kozumplik loves him some booze. Specifically, wine...

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