Nevada Supreme Court Denies O.J. Simpson’s Appeal
Non-astonishing news from Nevada.
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Please Advise at Your Earliest Convenience Whether You Would Like to Super-Size Your Allegations
That's just one of the many possible headlines for an item about a law firm that has opened a drive-thru window. The Kocian Law Group, a personal-injury law firm with offices in Connecticut and New York, opened the new office…
Police-Cam Video of Kansas City Chimp Released
Okay, one more on yesterday's chimp rampage in Kansas City. The occasion (or excuse) for bringing it up again is that the video from the police car's camera has been released. Here's the cellphone video I was going on about…
Gorilla Update
After I posted the previous item on the gorilla said to be rampaging through Kansas City, the original article was updated (same link) and the ape in question is now reported to be a "large chimpanzee" (pan troglodytes) rather than a gorilla (gorilla…
Assorted Stupidity #6
Resolved: the sentence "My dad paid cash for my Toyota Corolla and I am too rich to go to jail" is internally inconsistent. Discuss. Please note that the question whether uttering this sentence will keep you from getting arrested has…
Canadian Mounties Proceeding With “Active Investigation” of Bieber’s Role in Laser-Tag Incident
Obviously I am not above writing about Justin Bieber for the purpose of siphoning off some of the massive amount of Bieber-related Internet and Twitter traffic, but I am at least not willing to use the phrase "Bieber Probed" as…
Mayor’s Inability to Leap Over Giant Human Tomato Costs City $38,000
Headlines claiming he kicked the giant human tomato in the head are inaccurate.
“Rich Whitey” Laments Electronic-Voting-Machine Typo
Whitey, Whitney … what’s the difference, really?
2010 Ig Nobel Prize Winners Announced
I'm a big fan of the Ig Nobel Prize(s), awarded every year by the editors of the magazine Annals of Improbable Research. At least a few of this year's winners conducted research that might be of some distant relevance to the…
Town’s Lawn-Mowing Requirement Held Not Equivalent to Slavery
The excellent Legal Blog Watch reports that the Georgia Supreme Court has rejected an argument that an ordinance requiring citizens to mow their lawns constituted an imposition of "involuntary servitude" of the kind prohibited by the 13th Amendment to the United…