Richard Hatch, who became briefly famous for winning $1 million on the first season of “Survivor,” is now again briefly famous for being indicted on charges of failing to pay taxes on the $1 million that he won. Hatch was…

Bruce Reed, in Slate Magazine: [I am] still reeling from revelations about [John] Roberts’ youth in [a] fascinating psychological profile from Sunday’s Washington Post. The article recounts one especially telling episode. Young Roberts was considering a graduate degree in history,…

The AP reported this week that Saddam Hussein, facing charges for genocide, murder, torture, and a shitload of unpaid parking tickets, has fired everyone on his legal defense team except for one attorney, Khalil al-Dulaimi. Evidently, that means Khalil will…

On August 9, the Associated Press reported on the community service being performed by Jennifer Wilbanks, popularly known as the “Runaway Bride.” You may recall that Wilbanks first claimed to have been abducted and sexually assaulted by Mexicans, but later…

Like many politicians, Thai Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra does not really like being grilled by reporters. In the past he has angrily refused to talk to the press for some time after difficult questions have been posed. But Thaksin appears…

Thieves that steal gnomes, that is, not thieves who are gnomes. Police in Britain today charged two women with something or other, ending an 11-day investigation into repeated thefts of gnomes and other garden items from towns in central Scotland….

I think for something to qualify as a “crime spree” at least one of the crimes in the alleged spree has to have been successful. Otherwise, you would just have a series of attempted crimes, and I seriously doubt that…

Is domestic violence ever funny? No, of course not. With the single possible exception of when all the following criteria are met: It happens to someone else, and It involves a man being beaten by a woman, and She beats…