International House of Prayercakes
If I told you that IHOP was looking forward to the "great end-time harvest of souls," would you find someplace else to have breakfast? If so, then there might be something to the new lawsuit by IHOP against IHOP —…
September 2010
Hoisting Suspect’s Sagging Pants Not a “Search,” Court Rules
It seems like only yesterday, and in fact it was only yesterday, that I was again lamenting the amount of energy wasted on the fight against sagging pants. I don't like low pants any more than you do, I just…
Banjo Wielded
I concede this one is at least slightly off-topic, but I'm going to post it anyway. It's breaking news from my hometown of Kansas City: Charges filed in Overland Park banjo self-defense case Police say the Monday banjo blow to…
Georgia Town Enters Fight Against Sagging Pants
One of the continuing stupid issues I monitor here is the War on Sagging that still rages across this land. It seems like only yesterday, but was in fact two years ago, that a Florida judge struck down an anti-low-pants…
Genghis Khan Causing Trouble Again
That’s Genghis Khan of Brooklyn, New York, not the one from Mongolia. The Genghis Khan from Mongolia once controlled the largest land empire in history and caused untold destruction and possibly millions of deaths in the course of getting it….
Witch-Regulation Bill Fails to Pass in Romania
Romanian lawmaker Alin Popoviciu is blaming fear for the failure of a bill he sponsored that would have imposed new regulations and taxes on witches and fortune tellers. He claimed that the legislation had failed because lawmakers were afraid they…
Yet Another Reason Not to Wrestle Your Snake in the Parking Lot
The Associated Press reports that "[t]wo men were arrested after bewildered diners at a McDonald's spotted them wrestling a 5-foot (1.5 meter) python named Boris in the restaurant parking lot, police [in Melbourne] said Thursday." I don't think the diners…
Ninth Circuit Says First Amendment Protects the Right to Tattoo
Good news for those of you living within the Ninth Circuit — your right to tattoo others has been held "fully protected by the First Amendment." In Anderson v. Hermosa Beach, decided September 9, the panel struck down a local…
UPDATE: Threatened “Lemonade Uprising” Underwhelms
August 26 was the day of the most recent Last Thursday festival in Portland, an informal gathering that attracts about 15,000 people a month. Tensions were expected to be high, or at least higher than usual, because of the incident…
Assorted Stupidity #5
Is Jersey Shore a RICO enterprise? Some plaintiffs think so, arguing that the show earns millions of dollars from racketeering based on criminal activities, such as when people get in fights. Lead attorney says Viacom’s president is “the functional equivalent of…