Some men's dreams do not die easily. Earl J. Braxton is such a man. In 1977, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan ruled that Braxton could not use the phrase "Here's Johnny" for a business that…
Not me, unfortunately — as I pointed out yesterday, nobody with fingers and access to a search engine would be fooled for very long by anything I tried to pass off as serious. But somebody, or a group of somebodies,…
I think the reason is because, in a sense, every day is April Fools' Day here. I mean, for example, did any of you really believe that any of these things actually happened? Two Gypsy clans go to court over who…
On Sunday, New York state senator Eric Adams announced the start of the latest campaign to raise the pants of America's youth. Adams described the "Stop the Sag!" campaign as a major effort to fight what he called the "insidious…
An Easter-week showdown has been averted in the trial of a Colorado woman who claims she was wrongfully evicted for refusing to remove marshmallow Peeps and other Easter decorations from her apartment door last year. Carol Burdick was evicted last…
In February, the Ninth Circuit ruled that police have qualified immunity from civil-rights claims based on a department policy of strip-searching all arrestees (not convicts, just arrestees) who will be put into "general population." Bull v. City and County of…
Self-explanatory. Link: failblog.org
Prosecutors in the Bronx have charged 20-year-old Jennifer Mercado with credit card theft after a shopping spree in which she allegedly bought over $500 worth of stuff using someone else's credit card without authorization. She may have gotten the idea…
A reminder that John O'Hara deserves a pardon for the felony voting charges that resulted from the bogus prosecution I wrote about here. He is hoping to get New York Gov. David Paterson to act on his pardon request before Paterson leaves…
According to the New York Times, some of the "Mardi Gras Indians" have been registering copyrights in the "ornate, enormous, feathered costumes" they make themselves and wear three times a year on special occasions in New Orleans. These can cost…