Ape Map
This seems like it might be useful information to have: Even if you live in a blue state, though (and here "blue state" means there's no law against it), you shouldn't own one of our primate cousins. They are beautiful,…
2013
Good News for Law Firms: UFOs Are About to Save Us All
There's been a lot of doom and gloom lately about the state of the legal market, the number of jobs available (or not available), and so forth. Well, the good news is that experts are saying that an uptick is…
No, Twerking Is Not Illegal
According to numerous reports, the mayor of DeQuincy, Louisiana, made "twerking" illegal recently after the horrific display of it by what's-her-name at the MTV Awards brought it to his attention. The dance move is a "defiant act against Jesus," Mayor…
O.J. Simpson Actually Not Guilty of Something
At least according to the Nevada Department of Corrections.
Motorized Bar Stool Was “Not Road-Legal,” Say Police
As you know, the answer to the question whether you can get arrested for Driving a Bar Stool Under the Influence is plainly "yes," because it will be considered a "vehicle" for purposes of the motor-vehicle laws. But another problem…
UPDATE: Hiccup Girl Convicted of Murder
Jennifer Mee originally became semi-famous in 2007 when she had hiccups that lasted for months and sometimes hit a frequency of 50 hiccups per minute. (They eventually stopped by themselves.) She became more semi-famous three years later when she was…
Canada’s Long National Nightmare Is Over: Last Maple-Syrup Pirate Arrested
"To the delight of headline writers everywhere," said The Economist last week, "it appeared a maple-syrup mob was involved" in the theft of six million pounds of the stuff from the Global Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve last fall. Yes, that…
Good Reason to Kill #38: Peaceful Easy Feeling
There are at least two kinds of people in Charleston, South Carolina: people who like the music of The Eagles, and people who want to kill those people: When police talked to the victim, he said he had been listening…
How to Avoid Jury Duty (Audio Version)
I talk about it on NPR.
U.S. Pat. No. 35,600: The Plow Cannon
This might be where the term "Yankee ingenuity" came from, although if it was, somebody was being sarcastic: Two New Yorkers invented this and had it patented in 1862. At the time, the battles of First Bull Run and Shiloh…