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Arizona Man Arrested After Video Shows Him Trying to Feed Kitten to Python and Then Kicking It to Death

Posted on September 06, 2009
Jeremy Tuffly, 28, may be the leading contender for the worst human being of the week. The Mesa, Arizona man is shown in the videotape below trying to feed a 6-week-old kitten to a python snake. After repeatedly throwing the kitten at the snake (only to have the kitten run back to him), [...

Super sizing the Body of Christ

Posted on September 06, 2009
Jesus is now not just available everywhere, but he is even more beefy. None of this should surprise anyone in the fast food or religious areas. After all, a Catholic priest confirmed that an image on a Mexican restaurant fry stove was that of the Virgin Mary here...

Parents Unite Against Obama?s ?Brainwashing? Speech to Students

Posted on September 06, 2009
OK this is getting bizarre. This mother breaks into tears when she thinks of the President of the United States speaking to her children in school. We are less than two days away from Obama’s brain-washing, soul-crushing, communist-loving subliminal speech to our children...

HARMONY

Posted on September 06, 2009
In light of our recent reaffirmation of the civility rule on this blog, I give you evidence that species with generations of “difficulties” can overcome such instincts and impulses to achieve harmony. If you are more of a dog person, the message remains the same:

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Wichita Police Officer Orders Grandmother to Stop CPR on Drowned Boy Despite Alleged Signs of Recovery ? The Boy Dies

Posted on September 05, 2009
Pam Jordan says that she was hopeful when she began CPR on her three-year-old grandson Isaiah Jones after he drowned in the family’s pool. He was allegedly regaining color and coughing. That stopped, she claims, when a Wichita police officer arrived and inexplicably ordered her to stop and move away from the child...

Secessionists and Separatists Discover the Tenth Amendment

Posted on September 05, 2009
Suddenly, it appears that most extreme elements of our political debate have discovered the Tenth Amendment in arguing for either secession or a type of state independence that borders on separatism. This video of a Texas secessionist rally is shocking given the chants of “we hate the United States” but it is most telling [...

Have You Seen His Man Sweating Near You?

Posted on September 05, 2009
?The FBI is seeking a man who it calls the “Sweatin’ to the Oldies” Robber in a new wanted poster. He is rather easy to spot and possibly to smell. To paraphrase Hans and Franz, the FBI wants (please add Austrian accent) “to lock you up...

Sheriff Under Investigation After Allegedly Giving Taser to Man Who Appears on Video to Shock Son as Joke

Posted on September 05, 2009
This video is the subject of an investigation into Hallwood Chief of Police Wilson Glenn, who is accused of giving his taser to a father who then appears to tase his son as a joke. Handing over a police weapon for laughs and giggles is hardly good police practice...

Men Lining Up for Admission in John School

Posted on September 04, 2009
Well, there are mandatory parenting and driving schools. Now, there are “John schools” for men caught soliciting prostitutes. Cities are turning to John schools to curb prostitution. They might have to teach some old dogs new tricks. This week, an octogenarian was arrested in a sting targeting johns outside of Washington...

Shooting Payne: Fire Chief Argues with Police Officers About Speed Traps ? Police Officer Shoots Fire Chief

Posted on September 04, 2009
There was a bizarre scene in Ericho, Arkansas where Fire Chief Don Payne went to court for a second time in one day to complain about the police use of abusive speed traps in the small town. An argument erupted in front of Judge Tonya Alexander and Payne was shot from behind by one [...

One Orr in the Water: Defendant Stops Trial After Eating Own Waste in Court

Posted on September 04, 2009
OK, this is incredibly disgusting but it is another example of what lawyers sometimes have to deal with in court. James Orr, 66, stopped his trial for robbery and kidnapping when he removed his colostomy bag and began to consume the contents. While this particular act is thankfully uncommon, the courts have to [...

Indiana Officer Not Satisfied When Breathalyzer Clears Man, So They Use of a Catheter and Then Charge Him With Obstruction When He Is Shown Again to Be Sober

Posted on September 04, 2009
In Lawrenceburg, Indiana, Officer Brian Miller was not happy when Jamie Lockard, 53, agreed to a Breathalyzer that showed that he was not driving drunk. So, Miller and his colleagues arrested Lockard anyway, strapped him to a gurney and took blood as well as allegedly using a catheter against his will to extract [...

Reich Message All Wrong? German AIDS Awareness Video Under Attack

Posted on September 04, 2009
There is an interesting controversy brewing internationally over the use of the advert (shown below) entitled “Aids is Mass Murder” featuring Adolph Hitler as engaged in unprotected sex. It is a PETA-like shock video that has many activists complaining that it vilifies HIV-positive people...

Hi, I?m Amy Gdala: Doctors Isolate Part of the Brain that Recognizes Appropriate Distance Between People

Posted on September 04, 2009
It turns out that your “personal space” is all in your head. There is a fascinating story in the current issue of Nature involving the ability of human to sense and maintain proper “personal space.” Researchers at Caltech found a woman who had extensive damage to her amygdala, the part of the brain [...

Ohio Police Officer Holds Knife to Neck of Girlfriend and Kicks Her in the Stomach ? Gets a $150 Fine and an Anger Management Class

Posted on September 04, 2009
A Willard police officer Joshua Dorsey, 28, received what is being criticized as a remarkably light sentence after allegedly pressing a knife to the chin or neck of his girlfriend and kicking her in the stomach. He was ordered to undergo anger management and fined $150...

Judge Recuses Himself After Denouncing Latte Drinking, Cigar-Smoking Lawyer

Posted on September 03, 2009
Judge John Doyle is facing accusations that he is an latte-hating, cigar-smoker baiting jurist or worse. Doyle recused himself after losing his patience with a bank lawyer, Farzad Milani, and telling him that he could not allow the lawyer to sit in his office ?smoking his Cohiba cigars and drinking his lattes” while the [...

Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Under Fire For Master?s Thesis

Posted on September 03, 2009
Who says no one will read your college or university thesis? Robert F. McDonnell, Republican candidate for Governor in Virginia, is now wishing that he had chosen a simple paper on the life and times of Thomas Jefferson. Instead, as a masters student at Regents University, he wrote a thesis against government policies [...

Australian Man Faces Twenty Years for Sharing Baby-Swinging Video

Posted on September 03, 2009
There is an extraordinary case out of Queensland, Australia. Chris Illingworth, 61, is charged for merely copying and watching a viral video of a man swinging a baby. Prosecutors have charged that he distributed a child abuse video –even though the government itself rated the video as MA15+ (appropriate for anyone over 15)...

The Supremes: Picking the Top Nine Justices of All Time

Posted on September 03, 2009
Last night I discussed the growing speculation that Justice John Paul Stevens, an icon of the Court with over three decades of service, may be preparing to retire (here). On both a personal and jurisprudential level, Stevens remains one of my favorite judicial figures...

Bridal Moments II: Weddings Are [Usually] No Laughing Matter

Posted on September 03, 2009
Melissa and Andrew Engstrom’s wedding was not halted by anyone objecting to the union, but rather . . . Of course, this is still better than the bride who took an unexpected swim . . .

Former Attorney General Arrested After Allegedly Killing Bicyclist in Road Rage Incident

Posted on September 03, 2009
When he served as the attorney general for Ontario, Michael Bryant argued for harsh punishment for criminals, including a crackdown traffic crimes such a speeders. He is now accused in a shocking act of road rage that killed a bicyclist who Bryant allegedly rammed into a mailbox...

Till Prison Do Us Part: Man Claims Private Necessity in Robbing Bank to Escape Wife

Posted on September 03, 2009
Anthony Miller, 39, does not appear to have heard of a no-fault divorce. Caught in a joyless marriage, Miller says that he did the only thing that he could of to escape his wife: he robbed a bank and waited to be arrested. Miller met his wife through a Christian dating Web site and [...

Out on a Limb: Bank of American Refuses to Cash Check Unless Man Can Grow New Thumb

Posted on September 02, 2009
Bank of America may have given out money like a drunken sailor before the federal bailout, but it held the line with Steve Valdez. The bank refused to allow Valdez to cash a check after he stubbornly refused to give them his thumbprint to confirm his identification...

Top 500: Vote For Your Favorite Lawyers

Posted on September 02, 2009
The annual selection of the top 500 lawyers in America has begun at LawDragon. You can vote for your favorite colleagues, teachers, or counsel. While I am happy to be on the ballot, I am more happy to see others not on the ballot. Notably, John Ashcroft is no longer on the list...

Hatchery Horror: Video Shows Live Chicks Being Discharged By Being Thrown Live Into Grinder

Posted on September 02, 2009
An undercover video by Mercy for Animals purportedly reveals a shocking treatment of baby chicks at the Hy-Line North America’s hatchery in Spencer, Iowa. The video below shows workers discarding unwanted chicks by sending them alive into a grinder while others are left to die on the factory floor...

Mommy?s Little Helper: Georgia Man Charged With Slapping Toddler to Stop Her From Crying at Wal-Mart

Posted on September 02, 2009
There is an interesting criminal and torts case out of Georgia. Roger Stephens, 61, is accused of slapping a 2-year-old child across the face when she would not stop crying. That is bad enough, but the child was not his. The mother told police that her child was crying in a Stone Mountain Wal-Mart when [...

Maryland College President Under Fire For Lavish Spending

Posted on September 02, 2009
Public schools are cutting back deeply during this economic downturn but you would not know it from reading the credit card bill for Brian Keith Johnson, the Montgomery College president. Johnson appears to have personally taken on the cause of stimulating the economy with his state-funded spending...

Stevens: Speculation Grows Over Stevens Resignation

Posted on September 02, 2009
Due to its cultural insularity and secrecy, legal commentators often have to act like old Sovietologists who would predict shifts in power by who in the Politburo was standing where on top of Lenin’s tomb. For Supremologists, there are other common indicators: the most prominent is the reduction of judicial clerks...

WORKERS OF THE WORD UNITE! WOMAN FIRED FOR WRITING IN ALL CAPS

Posted on September 01, 2009
Vicki Walker was fired because she was a habitual user of all caps on emails. She was reinstated after a New Zealand board found in her favor and ordered payment of lost wages. Walker worked as an accountant for ProCare Health and was accused of writing emails with words in red, in bold and in [...

Miss California Superior Court: Carrier Prejean Sues Pageant Over Termination

Posted on September 01, 2009
Former Miss California Carrie Prejean, 22, has sued Miss California USA for llibel, public disclosure of private facts, religious discrimination, intentional infliction of emotional distress, and negligent infliction of emotional distress stemming from the controversy over her position on gay marriage...

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