You may sometimes be getting a weird-looking website (weirder than mine) when trying to access Lowering the Bar. I'm in the middle of changing webhosts, and access appears to be spotty while that change is in progress. (It's not supposed to…
It's an old story, really: boy believes he should be Employee of the Month, girl is chosen instead, boy and girl argue, boy shoots girl's car. It still seems worth mentioning, though. According to CBS Miami, a Broward County man was…
For those of you who subscribe to the RSS feed, I just changed that over from Feedburner to Feedblitz. That should not affect you at all, if Feedblitz keeps its promise to make that a transparent and seamless transition. You…
When was the last time you saw somebody do that? This time I did it as part of a "Legalese It" segment on Huffington Post Live, hosted by Mike Sacks. Also talking were Jessica Mederson, who writes E-Discovery Matters and Elie Mystal of Above…
That is, like "the Twinkie Defense"—a label people were using, not something specifically argued. But "affluenza" does seem to have come out of the mouth of a person who was being serious at the time. Specifically, an expert witness who…
Not this one, anyway. Reporters were able to track down Thamsanqa Jantjie, the guy who appeared at first to be doing the sign-language interpretation for the Mandela memorial service but who turned out to be … not doing that. See "Sign-Language Interpreter…
Mostly off-topic, but one of my favorite things ever to happen.
Do you have a right to read the laws that govern you, or is that a privilege you should have to pay for? PublicResource.org thinks it's a right, and has been publishing digital versions of various laws and codes not…
When we last checked in with the TSA—or, at least, the last time I mentioned it—it had just been outwitted by a child. Again. See "TSA Embarrassed by Nine-Year-Old Boy" (Oct. 11, 2013). Possibly still smarting from that incident, the agency has now…
There’s more to the story than the headline, but not much more.