Here's a great new blog you should check out: Law and the Multiverse, which considers legal scenarios involving superheroes and supervillains. My favorite so far is probably the post "RICO and the Legion of Doom," in which the authors conclude that…
A recently re-circulated video shows a TSA officer patting down a 3-year-old girl, causing her to cry and yell "Stop touching me!" (It's a 2-year-old video, but it's not like things have improved.) Responding to outrage over this, a TSA official said…
I mentioned the other day that I was closing in on two million pageviews, and I was planning a big celebration involving a very large cash prize to the person viewing that two millionth page, but then I got distracted…
The ABA Journal has released its fourth annual list of what it considers the "top legal blogs," and I'm pleased to say that Lowering the Bar is on the list. The blogs are chosen by the editors, who select 100 blogs…
Not sure which is worse: referring to one of these as a "rigid feminine pleasure device," or attacking a cop with one. The Chicago Tribune reported that the RFPD assault took place when an officer visited a woman's home to…
As you may have heard, the San Francisco Giants won the World Series, and anytime somebody wins a championship, of course, things must be set on fire. There were reports that one or more SF victory celebrations had turned into a…
When I suggested the other day that Charlie Sheen should consider the Tourette’s defense, I didn’t have all the facts. So unless there is some evidence that Tourette’s syndrome could cause someone to do cocaine, bring a porn star to…
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…
Entertainment Weekly reports that NBC has halted production on Outlaw, its new legal drama starring Jimmy Smits as a conservative but hard-partying Supreme Court justice with a gambling problem who resigns from the Court to go into private practice as a…
That’s Genghis Khan of Brooklyn, New York, not the one from Mongolia. The Genghis Khan from Mongolia once controlled the largest land empire in history and caused untold destruction and possibly millions of deaths in the course of getting it….