Those of you who study the human mind looking for explanations, let me know when you give up and let's all go have a drink. Anders Breivik, who, you may recall, killed 77 people in a horrific massacre in Norway…
I was about to give Courthouse News Service full credit for the phrase "penis graffiti," but it looks like that phrase was taken from the testimony of a real-estate agent describing what he found after a Texas lawyer was evicted…
Be on the lookout On Friday, police in Marin County, California, said they were still looking for the third participant in an home-invasion robbery on Halloween, in which a mother-daughter team allegedly robbed a marijuana dealer at gunpoint. According to…
In 1872, but still. Here are two things I did not know until recently: Susan B. Anthony was actually arrested, tried, and convicted of the crime of voting while female. The "B" stood for "badass." According to "The Trial of…
It could be illegal too.
Yes, “again.”
Normally I group short items like this one for posts in the “Assorted Stupidity” series, but I’m gonna do a series of them independently today as an experiment. For one thing, this would allow me to alert you to certain…
Still dumb. (The Italian justice system, not seismologists.)
According to KOMO in Des Moines (via Boing Boing), Joshua Pinney walked into a Bank of America branch there on June 26, said he needed a new debit card and explained his utter lack of resemblance to the picture on his ID…
This: We are one of the most selective law schools in the nation. Of the more than 7,000 prospective J.D. students who apply annually, Berkeley Law enrolls about 270. In choosing our students, we don’t stop at brilliance. We drill…