This is not one of those cases, ever-increasing in number, in which somebody is apprehended because of his or her own misuse of social media. According to the report in the Bradenton Herald, they caught this 23-year-old robbery suspect through…
The official name is "COMBINED RACING GREYHOUND HARNESS AND RIDER SUPPORTING MEANS," but I like mine better. From the application, filed in 1932: In the sport of greyhound racing, that is enjoyed by dog fanciers and racing enthusiasts, there has…
This report began: "The D.C. Council has a full plate for its last legislative session before a two-month summer recess," but since this is the picture they ran with the report— —I'm not sure the plate was really all that full. The guy…
I don't want to disappoint anyone who really enjoys reading 1000-word rants about whatever is bothering me that day, but posts will probably be shorter this week as I am also working on getting the book finished. This one doesn't…
Because it appears that detectives are getting really high-quality undercover video these days. You'll want to be presentable when the jury sees it. I found this interesting because I had not yet had the opportunity to see a 21-year-old woman…
Inshallah, it is a first down(Photo: Jeff W.) Not really. Or at least there is no (unclassified) evidence of that, but I think that by the same token we can't entirely rule it out. I'd like to be able to say…
This cannot have been made up.
1. Jurisprudence is the knowledge of things divine and human, the science of the just and the unjust. 2. Having laid down these general definitions, and our object being the exposition of the law …, we think that the most…
As I've mentioned before (probably more than once), I have been collecting examples of odd, dumb, and/or unnecessary laws for a while now, both for this blog and for a book project. I am happy to announce that the book…
Everybody currently working on a faucet design even remotely like this one can go ahead and stop: Seems mildly surprising that the inventor of D685062 hails from Independence, Missouri, rather than somewhere in Texas, but since I've been to Independence,…